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| Yet another book from Pakistan | | Musharraf toppled Nawaz Sharif to avoid court martial | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 3: A new book from Pakistan has made a sensational revelation: Gen. Parvez Musharraf toppled the Nawaz Sharif government in 1999 to avoid his court martial in accordance with the recommendations of an inquiry committee set up by the then Prime Minister to probe the 'Kargil debacle'.
The book entitled 'Kargil: Adventure or Trap', is written by Siddiqul Farooque, a central leader of the Nawaz Sharif-led Pakistan Muslim League. The 263-page book which has been written in both Urdu and English comes as a rebuttal to Gen. Musharraf's recently launched autobiography 'In The Line of Fire'.
The book disputes Gen. Musharraf's claim that former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, had been taken into confidence before the Kargil plan was executed. Farooque asserts in the book: "The Kargil misadventure was General Musharraf's own brain child and Nawaz Sharif was never taken into confidence on the issue as being claimed by Musharraf".
The book claims that Gen. Musharraf decided to topple the Sharif government after getting hold of a clandestine report of the inquiry panel set up by the then 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 Army without even informing the government of the day.
The book says that in order to stop such events from occurring in future, Nawaz Sharif constituted an inquiry committee of military officers which recommended court martial of Gen. Musharraf and the officers responsible for the Kargil misadventure. |
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