Pakistan Muslim-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif on Sunday again vowed that if his party was elected to power, he would institute an inquiry against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf and other top army men for their involvement in the Kargil incident. The Kargil debacle continues to haunt Pakistan Muslim-Nawaz (PML-N) chief: it cost him his government and 10-year exile in 1999. He said he would uphold the doctrine of civilian dominancy over the military.
In his interview to an Indian television, Nawaz said that the Kargil Commission inquiry report would be an open secret and its facts could be shared with India. He said no issue can be resolved at gun point. The PML-N chief said all options including dialogue should be used to resolve the issue of terrorism and militancy in Pakistan.
A senior PML-N leader Siddiqul Farooq said a high-level inquiry committee of senior military officers, constituted by the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999 to probe the Kargil episode, had recommended General Pervez Musharraf's court martial. But he had pre-empted the move by toppling the Sharif government to save his neck.
He said PML-N had published a 100 page "White paper "Kargil adventurism: Who is responsible for another defeat" in 2006. The White Paper claimed that Musharraf decided to topple the Sharif government after getting hold of a clandestine report of the inquiry panel set up by the prime minister to probe the Kargil episode and fix responsibility for the loss of lives on the icy wasteland in a misconceived and uncalled for operation carried out by the Pakistan Army without even informing the elected government.
The White Paper disputed Musharraf's claim that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was taken into confidence before the Kargil operation was executed. 'Kargil misadventure' was a four-man show the details of which were hidden from the rest of the senior military commanders, Farooq claimed.
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