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Debunking Pakistan's claims about the Kargil [ Images ] conflict, Lieutenant General (Retired) Shahid Aziz, then head of the Inter Services Intelligence’s Analysis Wing, has said regular soldiers, not rebels fighting for Kashmir [ Images ]’s independence, took part in the "meaningless" 1999 war.
The former officer also accused the then Pakistan Army [ Images ] chief General Pervez Musharraf [ Images ] of a "cover-up".
The Pakistani officer said whatever little he knew, took a while to emerge, "since General Musharraf had put a tight lid on Kargil".
To say that occupying empty spaces along the Line of Control [ Images ] was not a violation of any agreement and came under the purview of the local commander is astounding. This area was with the Indians as a result of the Shimla Agreement, and there had been no major violation of the Line of Control since 1971," he said.
He said the “boys” were comforted by their commander's assessment that no serious response would come.
“But it did -- wave after wave, supported by massive air bursting artillery and repeated air attacks. The enemy still couldn't manage to capture the peaks, and instead filled in the valleys. Cut off and forsaken, our posts started collapsing one after the other, though the general publicly denied it," he said.
http://www.rediff.com/news/report/kargil-was-a-disaster-musharraf-tried-to-cover-it-up/20130127.htm
Is there any truth in this or just another publicity stunt from a ex ISI man??