Pakistan News and Discussion-8

[Bharatvarsh]

Mudy I think the Kargil casualties on the Paki side were much higher than that, Nawaz Sharif later (after he got exiled) claimed that Musharaf masterminded the whole thing and that the Pakis lost as many as 4000 dead and this seems to be the case since NLI is recruited mainly from Baltistan and Pakistan has no problem using up these Shia heretics as cannon fodder. Here is what Sharif said:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Over 4,000 soldiers killed in Kargil: Sharif

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD Aug. 16 . The former Pakistan Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, claimed that more than 4,000 Pakistani troops and officials were killed in the Kargil conflict.

While Mr. Sharif accused the Pakistan military in general and the then Army Chief, Pervez Musharraf, of undertaking the Kargil operations without the knowledge of his government, it is for the first time he has come out with concrete figures of the casualty on the Pakistani side.

The Pakistan Government had consistently denied charges of its involvement in the Kargil War and claimed it to be an operation conducted entirely by the Mujahideen (holy warriors). Several months later it indirectly acknowledged its participation by decorating some of its soldiers who died in the conflict.

In recent times, Mr. Sharif has been harping on Kargil as an example of failure of the military leadership of Gen. Musharraf.

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