Thursday, 21st October 2008
Jiwar, West PakistanGeneral Gupta lifted the binoculars that hung around his neck and again surveyed the rocky peaks. The journey through Pakistan had been arduous but now they were safely camouflaged in the mountainous terrain that characterized the Jiwar peninsula, near the Iranian border. From his ridge halfway up the mountainside he had an excellent view of the valley running down to the coast.
In the beginning, the whole convoy, stretching over a mile, had departed from the army base in Rajasthan. The procession of tanks and army trucks drove in single file down the wide gravel tracks across the border into Pakistan. Every time the convoy reached a major junction, part of it would be dispatched onto a new trail as a decoy. The main section - the one carry
