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"In the line of fire", the memoirs by the Pak Army General and
President Parvez Musharraf, released on September 25 at New York,
might have not set on fire Pakistan, India or USA about the mutual
relationships of whom, during last about 7 years, the author has
dwelled in somewhat detail, but the claims and revelations made in the
book are definitely on fire in all the three countries. It is
unprecedented for a head of the state, still in power, to divulge some
state secrets, which have great bearing on the future mutual
relationship with the countries, about the secret parleys with whose
leaders, Musharraf has given his version. Most of the claims and
disclosures made by Parvez Musharraf in his autobiography, obviously
penned by some ghost writer, have been rubbished and blasted by the
concerned in the three countries. While the Muslim league in Pakistan
owing allegiance to the deposed Prime Minister Nawab Sharrif, has out
rightly rejected Musharraf's claim that the then Prime Minister, Nawab
Sharrif was kept informed and fully in touch with the Kargil
incursions by Pakistan in 1999. Musharraf's claim that the Kargil
adventure conceived and put into action by him resulted in moral,
diplomatic and army victory of Pakistan has been refuted in his own
country. The opposition Muslim league has also demanded a thorough
probe by some independent agency into the whole operation. What made
Musarraf to admit after 7 years of Kargil war that Pakistan's regular
Army was involved in the incursions and that five companies were
deployed for the purpose, after denying this fact for seven long
years, is a matter of debate. Perhaps as an act of bravado and patting
on his own back, the then Pak Army Chief has made a bid to project him
as the hero of the war, coming out glorious out of it. It can be also
aimed at boosting the morale of the Pak Army and Musharraf projecting
himself as the real friend and icon of the Army, which can be believed
to have been entertaining the feeling of being led down by the
General. BJP President Rajnath Singh giving lie to the General's claim
of Pakistan's moral, diplomatic and Army victory in the war has an
element of irony and travesty. It was for the government of India to
refute these claims by the Pak President and claim India's victory.
Just as India's victories in the1947, 65 and 71 wars were the
victories of the nation as a whole and country's armed forces and not
of the Congress which ruled the country at those times. Similarly
India's defeat in the 1962 war with China was the defeat of the nation
as a whole and not of the Congress party alone. The country's victory
in Kargil conflict brought proud to the whole nation and not the BJP
or NDA alone. The silence on the part of the Congress led UPA
government over the claim by Musharraf is intriguing. The government
of the time must set the record straight about the military and
diplomatic victory of the country. Above all, it is Musharraf's
disclosures that USA after 9/11 had threatened Pakistan of being
bombed and brought back to the stone age if it did not side with USA
in their war against international terrorism and that CIA of America
had given Pakistan several billions of dollars as a price for giving
them clues of some of the perpetrators of 9/11 strike and helping in
their being apprehended by USA, which is going to raise a good deal of
controversy. The same has been already denied by the US authorities.
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