The Longest August (82 page)

National Democratic Front of Bodoland,
197

National Front,
267

National Liberation Front of Afghanistan,
374

National Security Agency (NSA),
148
,
283
,
296
,
297
,
385

Nationalist Muslim Conference,
75
,
78
,
79

Nawabshah,
305

Nawaz Sharif, Muhammad,
264
,
269
,
289
,
340
,
345
,
384

and Bhutto, Benazir,
273

and Clinton, Bill,
285
,
286
,
287
,
297
,
298–300
,
303
,
304
,
427

and Gujral, Inder Kumar,
278

and India,
270
,
273
,
288
,
391
,
430

and, Ishaq Khan, Ghulam,
273

and Kargil War,
295–300
,
303
,
307
,
427–428

and Karzai, Hamid,
391

and Kashmir,
270
,
293–294
,
425
,
427–428

and Lahore Declaration,
293
,
312

and military High Command,
299
,
300
,
303–306

and Musharraf, Pervez,
290
,
298
,
304–306
,
309
,
365
,
428

and Narasimha Rao, Pamulapartu Venkata,
272

and nuclear program and weapons,
279
,
285–289
,
426

and Singh, Manmohan,
365
,
367

and United States,
270
,
273

and Vajpayee, Atal Bihari,
290
,
291–292
,
295–297
,
313
,
426–427

and Zia ul Haq, Muhammad,
270

as Prime Minister,
269
,
365
,
410

biography and characters of,
269–270

overthrown by a military coup,
306

Nayala,
310

Nayar, Kuldip,
187
,
194
,
254–256
,
424

Nazarbayev, Nur Sultan,
331

Nazimuddin, Khwaja,
131
,
141

NDTV,
429
,
344

Nehru, Kamala,
59
,
194

Nehru, Jawaharlal,
38
,
46
,
47
,
59
,
62
,
63
,
66
,
72
,
94
,
95
,
100
,
107
,
127
,
41
,
149
,
172
,
176
,
194
,
416
,
417

and Abdullah, Shaikh Muhammad,
112
,
116
,
151
,
176

and Ali Khan, Liaquat,
132
,
133
,
138
,
139–140

and Ayub Khan, Muhammad,
154
,
155–57
,
166
,
170–171
,
176
,
417–418

and Bogra, Muhammad Ali,
149–151
,
157

and China,
157
,
160–172
,
418

and communal violence and communalism,
63
,
86
,
87
,
105
,
106

and Constitutional Award,
81
,
416

and Dalai Lama,
164

and Eisenhower, Dwight,
144
,
148

and Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand,
63
,
87
,
94–95
,
127

and Indian National Army,
76

and Jinnah, Muhammad Ali,
65–66
,
83
,
131–132

and Kashmir,
111
,
112
,
113
,
114
,
116
,
120
,
121
,
122
,
123–124
,
142
,
150–151
,
143
,
155–156
,
173
,
175
,
176
,
208
,
342

and Kennedy, John F.,
167
,
171
,
173

and Koran War (1950–1953),
145

and Mao Zedong,
162
,
418–419

and nuclear program and weapons,
229

and Princely States,
98

and secularism,
106–107
,
128
,
416

and Soviet Union,
124
,
152
,
171
,
188

and Truman, Harry,
136

and United States,
85
,
144–145
,
171–172

and Vande Matram (song),
65–66

and Zhou Enlai,
169
,
170
,
418

as President of Congress Party,
60
,
80

as Vice-President of Executive Council,
85

biography and character of,
106
,
112
,
132
,
151
,
156
,
161
,
174
,
177

foreign policy of,
85
,
144
,
151
,
166
,
417

on Government of India Act (1935),
59

on Pakistan,
94
,
125
,
150–151
,
155
,
157

on Two Nation theory,
69

Nehru, Motilal,
38
,
44
,
47
,
177

Nehru Report,
44
,
45
,
54

Nepal,
158
,
163

New Delhi,
see
Delhi

New York,
273

New York Times
,
136
,
204
,
256
,
271
,
282
,
324
,
381

New Yorker
,
323
,
331

New Zealand,
18
,
155
,
41

Newcastle (South Africa),
16

Newsweek International
,
379

Niazi, Amir Abdullah Khan,
202
,
207
,
209–210
,
214
,
215
,
217
,
421

Nimitz, Chester,
150

9/11,
316
,
323
,
336
,
338
,
354
,
420
,
428

Nishtar, Abdur Rab,
86
,
95

Nixon, Richard,
196
,
202
,
206
,
207–208
,
211
,
215
,
219
,
221
,
267
,
293
,
310

No Higher Honors: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
,
353

Noakhali,
86

Non-Aligned Movement summits,
244
,
358
,
364
,
423

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),
243
,
251
,
278
,
284

Nonproliferation Act (US),
236

Noon, Firoz Khan,
147
,
148

Noor Jehan
(movie),
396

Nooran,
104

Noorani, A. G.,
160

Noorani, Zain,
254

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),
145–146
,
379
,
381
,
384
,
385
,
388
,
391

North Korea and North Koreans,
136–137
,
278

North Waziristan,
118
,
377
,
378

North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA),
158
,
159

North-East Frontier Tract,
158

North-West Frontier Province (NWFP),
60
,
61
,
62
,
96
,
97
,
118
,
237
,
269
,
274
,
369
,
414

Northern Alliance,
373
,
374
,
375

Northern Areas (Kashmir),
133
,
142
,
227
,
392

Nuclear Club,
280

Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act (US),
284

Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
,
167

Nusserwanjee, Jamshed,
45

Obama, Barack,
3
,
359
,
367
,
387

Obermeyer, Ziad,
217

Observer
,
255
,
424

O'Dwyer, Sir Michael Francis,
24

Omar, Mullah Muhammad,
316
,
319
,
338
,
363
,
372
,
379
,
380
,
391

One Day International (cricket matches),
400

Operation Badr,
294
,
295
,
300
,
301

Operation Black Thunder,
252

Operation Black Thunder II,
258

Operation Black Tornado,
373

Operation Blue Star,
248–249

Operation Brasstacks,
253–254
,
401
,
424

Operation Chanakaya,
275

Operation Chengiz Khan,
209

Operation Cyclone,
238

Operation Desert Hawk,
252

Operation Enduring Freedom,
373

Operation Fair Play,
232
,
422

Operation Gibraltar,
179
,
180
,
182
,
183
,
420

Operation Grand Slam,
179
,
180
,
183
,
184

Operation Gulmarg,
119
,
120

Operation Prakaram,
322

Operation Searchlight,
199
,
203

Operation Shakti,
283

Operation Shop,
249

Operation Vijay,
295
,
300

Operation Woodrose,
249

Orange Free State,
13

Osirak Contingency (India),
243

Osmani, Muhammad Abdullah Gani,
201

Otacamund,
178

Ottoman Empire,
11
,
27
,
30

Ottoman Turkey,
7

Outalha, Faiza,
348

Outlook
,
377

Oxford,
54

Padmanabhan, Sunderarajan,
322
,
324
,
325
,
326
,
334
,
429

Paghman,
237

Pahwa, Madan Lal,
126

Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza,
145
,
238
,
371

Pakeezah
(movie),
223
,
224

Pakistan
(book),
115

Pakistan and Pakistanis,
2
,
3
,
4
,
52
,
57
,
78
,
96
,
97
,
249
,
288
,
395

and Abdullah, Shaikh Muhammad,
153
,
176
,
359

and Afghanistan,
238
,
370–371
,
372
,
374
,
375–376
,
377
,
378
,
380–381
,
384
,
386–387
,
389
,
390
,
416
,
422

and Bangladesh,
226
,
227

and Central Treaty Organization (CENTO),
145–146
,
149
,
417

and China,
138
,
147–148
,
157
,
170
,
173
,
195
,
197
,
201
,
205
,
206
,
230
,
231
,
241
,
243
,
244
,
296
,
312
,
411–412
,
422
,
427

and Clinton, Bill,
289
,
290
,
311
,
312

and Gandhi, Indira,
241–242
,
244
,
235
,
246

and Gandhi, Mohandas,
125

and Gandhi, Rajiv,
254
,
255
,
258
,
261
,
288

and India,
125
,
126
,
127
,
128
,
204
,
206
,
207
,
240
,
243
,
246
,
251
,
254
,
271
,
274–275
,
285
,
287
,
308
,
310
,
312
,
319
,
321–322
,
323
,
326
,
328
,
331
,
332
,
333
,
336
,
358
,
367

and Islam,
128
,
147
,
201
,
227
,
232
,
235