Eminent writer and journalist Kuldip Nayar passed away in New Delhi on Thursday following a brief illness. He was 95. Mr. Nayar was deeply interested in peaceful relations between India and Pakistan. In his autobiography Beyond The Lines, he wrote about his interview with Pakistan’s nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, during which the latter revealed that Pakistan had a nuclear device well before it was thought to have had it. He was also the High Commissioner of India to the U.K. and nominated to the Rajya Sabha.

Eminent writer and journalist Kuldip Nayar passed away in New Delhi on Thursday following a brief illness. He was 95. Mr. Nayar was deeply interested in peaceful relations between India and Pakistan. In his autobiography Beyond The Lines, he wrote about his interview with Pakistan’s nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, during which the latter revealed that Pakistan had a nuclear device well before it was thought to have had it. He was also the High Commissioner of India to the U.K. and nominated to the Rajya Sabha.