INDIA: The hunt is on in India's military for a senior army officer who allegedly sold the country's battle plans to neighbouring Pakistan before their second war in 1965.
It is believed he sold them for a pittance to buy his wife kitchenware to indulge her hobby of canning fruit and vegetables.
Defence minister Pranab Mukherjee said his coalition government would investigate claims by Gohar Ayub Khan, the son of former Pakistani dictator Field Marshal Ayub Khan, that an Indian army brigadier sold the "war plans" for 20,000 rupees ($465).
This was less than an Indian brigadier's annual salary of around 24,000 rupees ($558) four decades ago.
Khan is a former Pakistani foreign minister whose autobiography will be released this year.
He told a leading Pakistani newspaper last week that the Indian brigadier was still alive, and rose to a "very senior" position before retiring.
He said the details in his book would make it "easy" to identify the officer. He was director general of military operations in charge of planning and executing the September 1965 war that ended in a stalemate.
India and Pakistan went to war three times since independence 58 years ago.
The 1965 war ended in a stalemate when a UN-sponsored ceasefire came into effect after three weeks of air and tank battles in which neither side could achieve a decisive outcome.
Defence analysts have written extensively in newspapers describing Khan's claims as "ridiculous".
They accuse him of sensationalism in order to sell his book, and of trying to bail out his father who was ousted from Pakistan's top job after the 1965 war.
They said it was not right for Khan to claim there was just one set of plans dealing with the conduct of battle.