Before leaving their briefing, journalists are handed a video and photographs, depicting decapitated civilians, allegedly the handiwork of Indian troops said to have crossed the Line of Control in February. At Zaffar camp, they are brought out of their tents to denounce Indian shelling, and deny that armed Muslim guerrillas regularly cross over to attack Indian forces, and create mayhem of the kind that struck the Sikh-dominated village of Chattisinghpora, where 36 men were massacred by unidentified gunmen on the eve of Mr Clinton's visit. But Brigadier Nawaz admits the wider propaganda war is being lost. Pakistanis feel a sense of betrayal by the West. We helped them defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
Nobody can deny that the Kashmir dispute has caused untold suffering to the region's people.
At least 25,000 people have been killed in the Indian-occupied area alone in the past 10 years. Promises by Indian leaders to grant autonomy and even self-determination have been broken. But Pakistan has also broken promises and its protests about injustices increasingly are falling on deaf ears. General Musharraf is trying to turn the situation around to Pakistan's advantage. But for Brigadier Nazaw, a soldier's soldier on the ground in a dirty war, it is enough to make a man lose his cool.