Dhaka, Aug. 23 -- Farooq Bajwa puts it all in perspective.

The story of the 1965 India-Pakistan wars, in May and September, today appears to be an almost forgotten episode in the history of the subcontinent. Yet there are the incidents and the personalities who remain etched in the memory for the varied roles they played in the conflict, assuming that you regard the Rann of Kutch battles and the later, larger war in September 1965 as a single stream. On the night India's Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died in Tashkent, hours after he had inked a deal with Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was awakened from sleep by his Machiavellian foreign secretary Aziz Ahmed. 'Sir', said Ahmed, 'the bastard is de...