British expert discovers Netaji at 1966 Tashkent talks

The mystique over Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose continues. After the Netaji family and non-Congress parties joning issue, the latest to throw his hat into the ring is a British forensic expert, Neil Miller. The expert claims that Netaji was very much there during the Tashkent talks mediated by the erstwhile Soviet Union following the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war. To buttress his point, Miller says he has used the latest face-matching technique on pictures obtained from British Kent agency and Russian as well as Chugtai Museum archives to come to the conclusion. Specifically the expert points to the group photograph showing President Ayub Khan and Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri as shaking hands, wherein the person believed to be Netaji figues. Prominently seen in the picture is Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, however. But the person named by the expert as Subhas Bose looks a lot younger than 68 years old that Netaji should have been at that time. The person appears to be more keen on a photo opportunity as an official rather than a leader of Netaji's stature. Moreover, Netaji's available pictures show him as balding in the frontal pate, and, in contrast, the assumed Bose is fairly well endowed with hair. Apparently Neil Miller seems to have been influenced by the round glasses that the person in the picture was wearing, while he finds Bose's resemblances in the eyes, ears, forehead, nose and chin of the person in question. At the same time, the expert says his is an assumption based on the face-matching technique, and he is strongly convinced about that. So it might be to nobody's surprise if someone in the Pakistan delegation names the real person eventually. Alternatively, it is for any member of the Indian delegation to end the vexing controversy over Netaji's reported death on August 18, 1945, in Taipei.