But after two days of discussions—one day in Islamabad and the next day at the mountain resort of Murree—a consensus emerged.

The 17th Regiment had spent the summer in the Murree Hills, where it had been carefully trained for the work that lay before it.

Since their return from Murree such flashes of dissension had become increasingly frequent between them.

I travelled vi Murree to Abbottabad, along the route now well known as the 'Gullies.'