PREFACE

The architects of Kargil defeat have raised so much dust that the actual facts have become almost obscure from the public eye. With the opening of the Kargil front, bitter facts began to unfold through national and international media and the knowledgeable sources of the country, raising two serious questions:

 1)      HAD the generals sought the permission of the chief executive?

2)      Why Pakistan opened this front after the signing of Lahore Declaration?

When Pakistan decided to pull out the NLI troops and Mujahideen from Kargil after Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif s meeting with President Bill Clinton on July 4, 1999, it raised another question: Who had suggested the pullout?

Though bitter facts about Kargil operation started becoming a public knowledge soon after its launching up to the toppling of the PML-N government, the coup-makers continued brushing them under the carpet because the buck for this huge defeat had stopped right at their door and they were feeling the noose tightening its grip around their neck.

THE FRONT

Some words on Kargil

Kargil being a part of Azad Kashmir was under the control of Pakistan. Some of its peaks are as high as 17,000 feet. We lost to India during the 1971 war. Under the Simla Agreement, India released our 93,000 troops and civil servants and gave us back 5,000 square kilometre occupied territory. However, both the countries agreed on a status quo vis a vis the State of Jammu and Kashmir meaning that the area where the armed forces of the two countries were pitched against each other in the State of Jammu and Kashmir was declared Line of Control. After this agreement, Kargil, which was located across the border, went under Indian control.

What prompted Kargil Operation?

Military experts, politicians and intelligentsia are at a loss to understand what prompted General Musharraf to   launch   the   Kargil   Operation   when