For readers interested in my last thoughts from Karachi, I draw their attention to my Pakistan Papers (UBSPD, New Delhi, 1994). Foreign Secretary Dixit declassified my final dispatch from Karachi and allowed me to publish it as the dispatch represented my views, not the government’s. The book contains a slightly redacted version of what I wrote in terms of a farewell summing up of my assessment of the constructive way forward. That approach has never been adopted