Sunday, 1 May 2016

Mistelling the story (Khalid Ahmed, South Asia Monitor)

Last year, the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS) in Islamabad published a tract — Indian Grand Strategy: Machiavellian or Kautilyan? — and tried to sell it. The IRS’s current president is Pakistan’s ex-ambassador to Afghanistan, Arif Ayub, blessed with a sense of humour. He admitted, “We had barely sold 30 copies, out of which the ISI had purchased 10 (which does not count), so in fact we sold 20,” in the funny speech he made launching a book that doesn’t even have a printline.

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=cult&nid=16669

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