Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf, who was the army chief during the Kargil war, panicked when the 1999 conflict broke out with India and decided to brief the then Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif for soliciting his support, Sharif's party has claimed.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, which released part-1 of the fact-sheet on Kargil, questioned the version of Musharraf in his book In the Line of Fire, where he claims that he had informed Sharif about the operation.
Giving out his party's version to the media, PML-N secretary Ahsan Iqbal said that according to Musharraf's version, Sharif was first briefed in May 1999.
The chronology of events that led to Kargil conflict, however, started much earlier. "It was amply clear that when the war had broken out between armies of the two nuclear states, General Musharraf panicked and decided to brief the prime minister for soliciting his support, he was quoted as saying by The Nation on Wednesday.
Iqbal said this briefing on May 17 was not complete either as it became evident later from the recorded conversation between Musharraf and then DGMO Gen. Aziz, which came to light in the first week of June.
It was only then that the prime minister came to know that our troops were involved in the Kargil conflict, he said.