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The late Satinder Kumar Lambah’s memoirs In Pursuit of Peace: India-Pakistan Relations Under Six Prime Ministers is a valuable resource for anyone interested in our bilateral ties with our neighbour over the past 75 years. His book underlines how previous Indian Prime Ministers took Opposition leaders into confidence on foreign policy matters. From Narasimha Rao and Atal Behari Vajpayee to Manmohan Singh, every PM instructed Lambah to go and personally brief Opposition leaders on any major foreign policy deal, initiative, agreement or shift that the government was planning. These leaders often included not just the leaders of the main Opposition...
