07-13-2006, 09:23 PM
<b>Kargil planned before Vajpayee's visit: Musharraf </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Why had he gone to Kel at a time when all such things were underway. During heavy snow what was the necessity that forced him to go to Kel? One cannot do anything if someone is telling lies so consistently," Musharraf said.
The daily also published the photographs showing Musharraf accompanying Sharif. In the pictures, Sharif is seen attending a 'briefing' by former ISI Chief and retired General Mehmood, who took part in the 1999 coup by Musharraf and later quit during a purge of the military top brass following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US.
A close political associate of Sharif, Raja Zaffarul Haq who was a Minister at that time, is also seen sitting with him in the meeting. Haq is currently the President of Sharif's Pakistan Muslim Leagu-N (PML-N).
The pictures also show Sharif addressing the jawans apparently of the Pakistan Light Infantry of the Northern Areas, which Sharif claimed had been wiped out as its men and officers took part in the Kargil operation.
Sharif said 2,700 personnel were killed in the Kargil operation, which according to him was far higher than the combined casualties in Pakistan's 1965 and 1971 wars with India.
Musharraf, in his television interview, also sounded a warning of sorts to Sharif and told him to be 'economical' on revealing details.
The issues relating to Kargil were extremely confidential and of paramount national importance, and these should not be publicised in the way in which the former Prime Minister was doing consistently, he said.
"I would advise him to talk economically on this issue because it is an issue of great national confidentiality," he said. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The daily also published the photographs showing Musharraf accompanying Sharif. In the pictures, Sharif is seen attending a 'briefing' by former ISI Chief and retired General Mehmood, who took part in the 1999 coup by Musharraf and later quit during a purge of the military top brass following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US.
A close political associate of Sharif, Raja Zaffarul Haq who was a Minister at that time, is also seen sitting with him in the meeting. Haq is currently the President of Sharif's Pakistan Muslim Leagu-N (PML-N).
The pictures also show Sharif addressing the jawans apparently of the Pakistan Light Infantry of the Northern Areas, which Sharif claimed had been wiped out as its men and officers took part in the Kargil operation.
Sharif said 2,700 personnel were killed in the Kargil operation, which according to him was far higher than the combined casualties in Pakistan's 1965 and 1971 wars with India.
Musharraf, in his television interview, also sounded a warning of sorts to Sharif and told him to be 'economical' on revealing details.
The issues relating to Kargil were extremely confidential and of paramount national importance, and these should not be publicised in the way in which the former Prime Minister was doing consistently, he said.
"I would advise him to talk economically on this issue because it is an issue of great national confidentiality," he said. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->