Recalling the 2001 Agra Summit, former diplomat Ajay Bisaria said that the then Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s overreach in terms of publicly broadcasting hawkish positions on Kashmir–and his insistence on a formulation linking progress on all issues with progress on Kashmir–had led to the unravelling of the summit. On the second day of the historic summit between India and Pakistan in July 2001, Musharraf had met with editors of major newspapers and TV networks for a breakfast conversation, in which he let loose his hawkish position on Kashmir and equated terrorists with freedom fighters, Bisaria recounted in ‘Anger Management: The Troubled Diplomatic Relationship Between India and Pakistan’.
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