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Washington, Oct 5, :
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has admitted that Pakistan had trained underground militant groups to fight in Kashmir, the first such admission by a top leader of the country.
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has admitted that Pakistan had trained underground militant groups to fight in Kashmir, the first such admission by a top leader of the country.
Musharraf's remarks came days after he announced his return to active politics from London where he has been living in self-imposed exile.
"They (underground militant groups to fight against India in Kashmir) were indeed formed," Musharraf told German magazine Der Spiegel in an interview.
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Kargil invasion was pre-planned: Musharraf
President Pervez Musharraf has confirmed what the world had suspected for long that Pakistan's Kargil invasion had been planned even as the then Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was preparing for his journey of peace by bus to Lahore in February 1999.
Nawaz Sharif , the then Pakistan Prime Minister, had been briefed on Kargil operation 15 days ahead of Vajpayee's journey to Lahore on February 20, 1999, Musharraf, who was then the Army chief, said in a television interview.
The Pakistan president's disclosures came in reaction to Sharif's recent claims that he was in the dark about the Kargil operation and that he had first come to know about it when Vajpayee had telephoned him from New Delhi to ask 'Mr prime minister what was happening.'
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.
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has admitted that Pakistan had trained underground militant groups to fight in Kashmir, the first such admission by a top leader of the country.
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has admitted that Pakistan had trained underground militant groups to fight in Kashmir, the first such admission by a top leader of the country.
Musharraf's remarks came days after he announced his return to active politics from London where he has been living in self-imposed exile.
"They (underground militant groups to fight against India in Kashmir) were indeed formed," Musharraf told German magazine Der Spiegel in an interview.
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Kargil invasion was pre-planned: Musharraf
President Pervez Musharraf has confirmed what the world had suspected for long that Pakistan's Kargil invasion had been planned even as the then Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was preparing for his journey of peace by bus to Lahore in February 1999.
Nawaz Sharif , the then Pakistan Prime Minister, had been briefed on Kargil operation 15 days ahead of Vajpayee's journey to Lahore on February 20, 1999, Musharraf, who was then the Army chief, said in a television interview.
The Pakistan president's disclosures came in reaction to Sharif's recent claims that he was in the dark about the Kargil operation and that he had first come to know about it when Vajpayee had telephoned him from New Delhi to ask 'Mr prime minister what was happening.'
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.
