A book titled The Inheritance written by David Sanger, a correspondentof the New York Times, published recently has received much attentionbecause of its disclosures about how the previous administration of George Bushrealised that Gen (now retired) Pervez Musharraf was playing a double game withthe US-- pretending to act against the Taliban and covertly using it asstrategic asset. It also refers to a reported intercept of a telephoneconversation of Gen.Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, the present chief of the Army Staff,in which he referred to Jallaluddin Haqqani, a Taliban commander, as astrategic asset.