According to Dulat, Farooq Abdullah had conveyed his readiness to assist in the smooth political rearrangement of Kashmiri politics, despite his private conviction, which was a staunch opposition to the abrogation of Article 370. Farooq Abdullah also indicated that he would have found ways to implement, without unmanageable backlash, the division of Jammu & Kashmir state into a different arrangement of union territories. His son, Farooq Abdullah, on the other hand was as comfortable in Urdu, Hindi and English as he was in Kashmiri; which was one of the reasons why Farooq has always harboured ambitions of being a national level official. Dulat ends his book by comparing Farooq Abdullah with the great French leader, Charles de Gaul, who Farooq has always admired. Then, from 2000 to 2004, Dulat worked as Special Advisor on Jammu & Kashmir in the prime minister’s office.