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India-Pakistan
Kargil tactical victory for us: Musharraf
2006-09-25
In the first official acknowledgement of involvement of Pakistan's regular troops in the Kargil conflict, President Pervez Musharraf has described it as "a landmark in the history of the Pakistani Army".

“Considered purely on military terms, the Kargil operations were a landmark in the history of the Pakistani Army...”
"Considered purely on military terms, the Kargil operations were a landmark in the history of the Pakistani Army," he writes in his book In the Line of Fire scheduled to be released in New York on Monday.

For long, Pakistan has maintained that the 1999 conflict in Kargil involved "freedom fighters", but the General says that five units of his army has supported the "freedom fighter groups" to compel the Indians to deploy more than four divisions. He insists that Kargil was a tactical victory for his men trying to "undo Indian adventurism", according to extracts of the book carried by 'The Nation' newspaper which in turn quoted BBC.
All Pakistani victories are tactical.
The President rubbishes speculation that Pakistan was preparing for a nuclear attack on India at the time of the conflict. "I can say with authority that in 1999 our nuclear capability was not yet operational..... Any talk of preparing for nuclear strikes is preposterous", he says.

Musharraf refuted then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's claim that the general had not taken him into confidence about the Kargil operations. The army, Musharraf writes, briefed Sharif in Skardu on January 29, 1999 and in Kel on February 5, 1999. "During these briefings, our defensive manoeuvres was explained as a response to all that was happening on the Indian side."

Musharraf says Sharif, who was ousted by the general in a coup in October 1999, was also briefed on March 12, 1999 at the Directorate General of Inter-Services Intelligence. The General says Sharif made the "cardinal mistake of under-estimating him. He had probably thought that being the son of migrant parents, I would feel more insecure and vulnerable. He couldn't have been more wrong."
That's fairly breathtaking arrogance...
Sharif, now living in exile, has consistently maintained that Musharraf kept him in the dark about the Kargil operations, and he learnt of them from then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Posted by:john

#6  Interesting that they behave just like the savages in Fallujah.

Posted by: john   2006-09-25 12:05  

#5  The family of one dead Indian soldier has a petition asking the Indian and Pakistani governments for justice for his son

I am proud father of Amar Shaheed Lt. Saurabh Kalia of 4 JAT Regiment of the Indian Army who laid down his life at the prime age of 22 for the Nation while doing duty of guarding the frontiers at Kargil. The parents, the Indian Army but the whole nation lost a dedicated, honest and brave son. He was the first officer to detect and inform Pak intrusion. Pakistan captured him and his patrol party of 5 brave men alive on 15th May, 99 from our side of LOC. They were in their captivity for 3 weeks and subjected to unprecedented brutal torture as evident from their bodies handed over by Pakistan Army on 9th June, 99.They indulged in dastardly acts of burning bodies with cigarettes, piercing ears with hot rods, removing eyes before puncturing them, breaking most of the bones and teeth, chopping off various limbs and private organs of these soldiers besides inflicting unimaginable physical and mental tortures. They were shot dead ultimately




Posted by: john   2006-09-25 12:00  

#4  But, john, you misunderstand. Their objective was not to take and hold territory, it was to make it into paradise.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-09-25 11:49  

#3  India will think twice. They might have to clean up the mess left over. Their best hope is that the Pakis use a dud nuke.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-09-25 11:40  

#2  I truly hope India whip their ass in any forthcoming war!!!
Posted by: Cheregum Crelet7867   2006-09-25 11:38  

#1  What a tactical victory...

Thousands of Pakistani soldiers dead.. the entire Northern Light Infantry wiped out... according to Nawaz Sharif, many had their heads and other body parts blown to pieces by massive Indian artillery fire.

Indian troops seizing all the captured posts and a few Pakistani ones for good measure.

Burials at night, in secret to keep alive the claim that "freedom fighters", not Pakistani soldiers were involved.

Refusal to accept the bodies of your soldiers when the Indians handed them over, again denying their involvement.

One grief stricken father begged the Pak government to accept the body of his son. Finally Indian soldiers performed the muslim burial rite.

Perv dishonored the very memory of his soldiers by his refusal to accept the bodies.

Tactical victory?

Whose troops occupy the mountain tops?


Posted by: john   2006-09-25 11:25  

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