Peter Oborne

Modi’s operandi

Imran Khan’s attempts to make peace are being deliberately thwarted

issue 23 February 2019

 Islamabad

‘I’m in the mixed doubles.’

Six months into Imran Khan’s premiership and the new Pakistan prime minister has been plunged into his first major foreign crisis. Last week, a suicide bomber attacked Indian soldiers in Kashmir, killing more than 40 paramilitary troops. Simultaneously, another suicide attack massacred 27 members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard near the Pakistani border of Iran’s troubled Sistan and Baluchestan Province.

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