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| Nawaz Sharif spills the beans | | Nuke warheads were deployed during Kargil war | | From B L KAK
NEW DELHI, July 5: A highly sensational revelation has been made by Pakistan's former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif: Pakistan Chief of Army Staff and President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf had moved the Pakistani nuclear warheads during the 1999 Kargil war to use them against India.
The revelation is contained in Nawaz Sharif's biography titled 'Gahadaar Kaun? Nawaz Sharif Ki Kahani, Unki Zabani (Who is the traitor? Nawaz Sharif' story in His Own Words). The 500-page book echoes the v iew point of Sharif an important player in Pakistan's politcal history.
The book is written by Suhail Warraich, senior Pakistani journalist. The just-released book is based on the personal and political life of Nawaz Sharif. Sharif, who is universally known as Gen. Musharraf's arch enemy, has revealed for the first time the details of his childhood, his political career, the Kargil issue, nuclear explosions, the October 1998 military takeover and his departure to Jeddah.
"During my post-Kargil misadventure meeting with American President Bill Clinton, I was told by the American leader that the nuclear warheads had been shifted from one station to the other during the Kargil War", Nawaz Sharif has divulged.
And his candid confession: "I was taken aback by this revelation because I knew nothing about it". Sharif says in his biography: "The American President further told me during the meeting that the nuclear warheads have been moved so that these could be used against India".
Nor is it all vis-a-vis the Sharif-Clinton meeting. Nawaz Sharif adds: "I was asked by Mr Clinton as to why I was unaware of these developments despite being the elected chief executive and the Prime Minister of the country. It was a very irresponsible thing to do on General Musharraf's part."
Sharif has claimed in his first official biography that Gen. Musharraf had waged the Kargil war against India without his approval and he only came to know of the misadventure through Indian Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, who had provided him audio tapes of Musharraf's telephonic conversation to this affect.
Another book, according to latest reports from across the border, has, significantly, attracted attention of anti-Musharraf lobby within Pakistan. Soon after the 1999 coup d'etat that brought him to power, Gen. Musharraf telephoned General Anthony Zinni, Commander of the US Central Command (CentCom). Both Musharraf and Zinni have publicly confirmed their conversation.
In his book Battle Ready, written with Tom Clancy, Zinni says that Gen. Musharraf told him "what had led to the coup and why he and the other military leaders had had no choice other than the one they took". Zinni also mentions Gen. Musharraf's help, two months later, in arresting some terrorists sought by the US, which led Zinni to tell Washington: "Now do something for Musharraf."
In the aftermath of a military coup that entailed toppling an elected government, Gen. Musharraf found it expedient, possibly necessary, to seek the advice and support from the top American general dealing with the Middle East and Central Asia. Subsequently, too, Gen. Musharraf has been proud of his American connections, citing on more than one occasion US support since 9/11 as somehow conferring legitimacy on his military regime.
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