Saturday, June 1, 2002

a nice breeze from the ocean is making it all the way up here these days 2:07:22 PM    DEBKA: The Pakistani army is not big enough to match India's ability to fight on three fronts. Its generals will therefore focus on an all-out attempt to leap from the Pakistani Punjab to the Indian Punjab and on south to HaryanaState. A second task force will collect in the central Pakistani region of Bahawalpur ready to spring into IndianHaryanaState and cover the distance to New Delhi. The chances of these two forces actually reaching the gates of New Delhi are slim, but the attempt calls for audacity. American intelligence evaluations of the progress of the Indo-Pakistan war recently swung round sharply from a short, intense conflict to a drawn-out struggle that could stretch over many months, together with an estimate of between four to six weeks into the fighting before either of the belligerents considers whether or not to bring out its nuclear weapons. 2:04:37 PM    Pakistani President at the Fulcrum of Crisis. In Pakistan's capital, the question is whether the country's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has as much power over Muslim guerrillas as President Bush implies. [NYTimes] 6:13:37 AM

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