(Image source from: Shameless Pervez Musharaf murmurs})

Pakistan's former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf said the Pakistani Army "caught India by throat" and that India will never forget the war. "There was a second line force, too, which caught India by the throat and that was later given the status of the Army," Musharraf said, while addressing a ceremony of his All Pakistan Muslim League (APML). "We entered Kargil from four points of which India was not aware," the disgraced former President said.

In May 1999, India and Pakistan, clashed in the Kargil area of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir. In the spring, when the snow melted in the Kargil sector to the northeast of Srinagar, 1,000 or more infiltrators, terrorists and their counter part Pakistan Army, crossed the Line of Control from Pakistani-occupied Kashmir into Indian Kashmir. Equipped with high-altitude warfare, snowmobiles and mortars and cover fire by Pakistani artillery from the other side of the border, they established positions at heights above 14,000 feet, overlooking the strategic vital road that connects Srinagar to Leh in Ladakh. Pakistan hoped that they would give new stimulus to the decade-long insurgency within Indian Kashmir and, in its direct impact, raises the military costs for India in Kashmir and cut the strategic highway link between Srinagar and Leh. It failed on all counts.

The then commander of Pakistan Army Musharaff started crying and went from pillar to post for getting a safe passage for his troops. The Pakistan Army, which is treacherous and useless does not have the capacity to fight from the front, and hence pushes terrorists, which they have trained and hosted to wage a proxy war against India. Musharraf after completing his term ran away from Pakistan and went into exile. The disgraced Army Chief does not have any dignity or self respect to boast about the misadventure initiated by him which has seen hundreds of Pakistani soldiers losing their life and scores incapacitated. The Atal Bihari Vajpayee government has given a send-off through the back-door to the non-trustworthy, back-stabbing, boaster, when he visited India as the

Pakistan Army chief, which an Army chief has not experienced anywhere in the world.

By Premji