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A secret letter sent by former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to U.S President Bill Clinton at the height of the Kargil war in 1999 made it clear that if Pakistani infiltrators did not withdraw from Indian territory, "one way or the other we will get them out." Though India's options were never spelt out in the missive, in an interview to NDTV's Consulting Editor, Barkha Dutt just two months before he died, the former National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra revealed that "Crossing the Line of Control was not ruled out, nor was the use of nuclear weapons." Mishra who...

Pak commander blows the lid on Islamabad's Kargil plot Manu Pubby Posted online: Friday , Jun 12, 2009 at 1017 hrs New Delhi : In the first account by a Pakistani military officer that nails Islamabad’s lie on Kargil, a former pilot who was Director of Operations of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) during the 1999 conflict has given a blow-by-blow account of the preparations undertaken by his country’s Army that led to operations inside the Indian side of the Line of Control. Published in India in the latest issue of the 'Vayu Aerospace and Defence Review' magazine, PAF Air...

Musharraf and the truth about Kargil Praveen Swami General Musharraf's account of the Kargil war is a feisty defence of Pakistan's military — but sits ill with well-established facts. KARGIL, PERVEZ Musharraf wrote on his official website two years ago, "proved a lesson to the Indians and a rude awakening to the world of the reality of Kashmir." Now In the Line of Fire: A Memoir by Pakistan's President has sought to give shape and form to that controversial contention in the first official account that has emanated from Islamabad on the causes and course of the Kargil war. In...

'5 units of Pak Army made India shudder in Kargil' New Delhi: Digging old dirt, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has squarely blamed India for the Kargil conflict, claiming that the conflict occurred because of India's attempts to find a casus belli (an event or political occurrence that brings about a declaration of war) by reporting 'make-belief attacks' from the Pakistani side.

According to Subhra Jain, a freelance reporter in New Delhi, she bumped into a very senior Indian Military official in a nightclub in New Delhi. While talking what she came to know will make the rest of the world sit up all night. According to her, Extra Terrestrials have been visiting India and the rest of the world for thousands of years. In recent days most of the super powers have been formally contacted. India is no exception in recent days. ’They always contact through the ground radar stations of the military’, she says. Indian Himalayas and Ladakh (China-India) border...

Exiled former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharief has said that more than 4,000 Pakistani troops and officials were killed during the 1999 Kargil conflict, which also sabotaged efforts to improve Indo-Pak relations initiated by him and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This was the first time that Sharief disclosed the number of Pakistani casualties, which were kept a closely guarded secret.He also admitted that Pakistan was defeated in Kargil, but said he covered it up by undertaking a visit to the United States, after which Islamabad announced a withdrawal. Had he accepted defeat then, it would have demoralised the army...

Kargil: What Does It Mean? Pakistan's first effort in 35 years to seize and hold territory on India's side of the Line of Control backfired. Pakistani prime minister Sharif's July 4 agreement with president Clinton made clear Pakistan's responsibility for both the incursion and the withdrawal. In return, the United States promised a more active role in encouraging an Indo-Pakistan rapprochement. On the surface, this meets Pakistan's long-standing goal of getting the outside world's help on the neuralgic Kashmir dispute. But the Kargil operation has sparked international interest in a settlement that would essentially freeze the status of Kashmir with...