In Kargil War, Pakistani Army Caught India by the Throat, Claims Musharraf

KL News Network

SRINAGAR

Former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf said India would never be able to forget the Kargil war as his armed forces “caught the enemy by the throat”.

Pakistan had won the battle in 1999 but the then Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government converted the success into a political defeat, asserted Musharraf, who was elected in army uniform as the 10th president of Pakistan in 2001.

“India would never be able to forget the three-month-long battle [Kargil war] when our gallant armed forces caught the enemy by the throat,” Parvez said while addressing the swearing-in ceremony of the office-bearers of his All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) youth-wing in Karachi on Sunday.

He claimed that the Pakistan Army along with the second-line force had entered Kargil district of Kashmir and took over key strategic positions at five locations, four of which were not even known to the Indian forces.

India had barely reclaimed half of the territory in one area, he said, “It was the greatest military victory against India, but regrettably Pakistani politicians wasted this opportunity.”

Pertinently, Nawaz Sharif admitted on September 2007 that the then Pakistan Army chief Pervez Musharraf was “behind the 1999 Pakistani aggression in Kargil without his knowledge”.

Notably, in May 1999, India and Pakistan, in their most serious military engagement since 1971, clashed in Kargil area of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir.

Lashing out at the PML-N government on its performance in the current tenure, Musharraf said the country which is full of resources has come to a dead end due to bad governance.

The ex-chief of army staff claimed that the Indian spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), was directly involved in Balochistan and Karachi unrest.

“Indian embassies in Afghanistan are functioning as training headquarters of terrorists, the evidences of which have been provided to the Afghan government,” he said.