Scene 1: **"The Pen & The Dagger"**
*President's House, Karachi. May 19, 1954.*
The ceiling fans whirred uselessly against the Karachi heat as **John Foster Dulles** signed the Mutual Defense Pact with a flourish. President **Iskander Mirza** beamed, shaking hands under crystal chandeliers.
**Dulles** (quietly): *"Remember, Mr. President – this pact makes Pakistan America's frontline against communism."*
**Mirza:** *"And Kashmir?"*
**Dulles** (patting the document): *"Help us contain Nehru's Soviet flirtations, and... territorial adjustments become *possible*."*
In the gallery, **Major Akhtar Hussain** (ISI) watched **R.N. Kao** (RAW) photograph the treaty's secret annexes with a miniature camera. *"Notice, Brigadier?"* Hussain murmured to his superior. *"The Indian spy wears French cologne. Amateurs."*
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Scene 2: **"The Base Bargain"**
*Peshawar Airbase Tarmac. Same Night.*
Dulles stood under B-52 bomber shadows as **General Ayub Khan** gestured to the Hindu Kush mountains. *"From here, Mr. Secretary, we monitor Soviet Central Asia. But these radars..."* he tapped outdated equipment, *"...are 1943 relics."*
**Dulles** (lighting a pipe): *"We'll install state-of-the-art AN/FPS-20 radars. But we need assurance – no Soviet overflights go unreported."*
**Ayub:** *"Even civilian flights?"*
**Dulles** smiled coldly: *"Especially those."*
Nearby, **Fatima** (posing as a cleaning maid) scraped gum off the tarmac, pocketing a discarded fuel report. *Base capacity: 10,000 gallons/day.*
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Scene 3: **"The Chessboard Moves"**
*RAW Safehouse, Delhi. June 1954.*
**Kao** projected satellite photos onto a bedsheet. *"Pakistani 12th Division relocating from Quetta to Bhimber – 40km from Kashmir ceasefire line."*
**Nehru** slammed his tea cup: *"After taking American arms? This is betrayal!"*
**Defense Minister Menon:** *"Calm, Panditji. They're positioning against Soviet threats..."*
**Kao:** *"With T-54 tanks? Soviets use T-34s. These face *our* Punjab positions."*
Nehru stared at the map. *"Alert 161 Infantry. But no provocations – the world watches."*
As they left, Kao whispered to Fatima: *"Time for Operation Peacock."*
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Scene 4: **"The Nuclear Mirage"**
*Lahore Book Bazaar. July 1954.*
**Fatima** browsed Urdu poetry collections as **Professor Malik** (KGB double agent) approached. *"Rare edition of Iqbal, sister?"* He slid a book into her hand. Inside: *BARC reactor schematics – FAKE*.
**Malik:** *"Your scientists work late at Trombay. Planning something... *big*?"*
**Fatima** (feigning nervousness): *"I shouldn't say... but they whisper *uranium enrichment*."*
That night, **Hussain** examined the schematics in ISI HQ. *"Nehru building nukes? Impossible!"*
**CIA Liaison Anderson:** *"We have reports of Indian physicists at Harwell. This confirms it."* He handed Hussain a briefcase. *"$200,000 for more intel."*
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Scene 5: **"The Himalayan Shadow"**
*Kashmir Ceasefire Line. August 1954.*
**Sepoy Hari Ram** peered through binoculars as Pakistani bulldozers carved roads toward Bhimber. *"Sahib! They're bringing *artillery*!"*
**Captain Dhyan Chand** radioed HQ: *"Request permission to mine passes!"*
Static crackled: *"Negative. PM says *no escalation*."*
From a ridge, **Hussain** watched Indian positions with Dulles' gifted infrared scope. *"See, Mr. Anderson? Nehru's weakness."*
**Anderson** scribbled notes: *"Recommend expedite F-86 Sabre delivery."*
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Scene 6: **"The Whisper Network"**
*Rawalpindi Mosque. September 1954.*
**Fatima** knelt in prayer as **Kaifi Azmi** (communist poet) dropped a crumpled *naan* beside her. Inside: *"Dulles approved 50 Patton tanks for Kashmir front.*"
**Mullah** (ISI informant): *"Sister! You dropped your bread."* He snatched it, unfolding the note. *"Poetry? How... pious."*
At midnight, **Kao** decoded Azmi's warning in Delhi. *"Alert Shastri. But Menon insists Patton tanks can't climb Kashmir's passes."*
**Fatima** stirred chai: *"Americans build roads first. Then tanks come."*
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Scene 7: **"The Cost of Embrace"**
*U.S. Embassy, Karachi. December 1954.*
**Dulles** toasted Mirza with bourbon: *"To SEATO! Now, about those Soviet overflights..."*
**Mirza** handed flight logs: *"Three this week. But Kashmir, Mr. Secretary..."*
**Dulles** smiled: *"We've *delayed* Nehru's Security Council appeal. Bought you time."*
In Delhi, **Nehru** burned the rejection letter from UN Secretary-General Hammarskjöld: *"Kashmir issue postponed indefinitely."*
**Kao** watched flames consume the paper: *"America sold us for radar stations."*
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