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Pak unrepentant about Kargil

Indicating Pakistan's unrepentant attitude towards its aggression in Kargil last year, General Pervez Musharraf's information adviser says his country has an open stand on Kashmir and therefore there was no need to hold an inquiry into the Kargil episode as India had done.

In an interview to BBC (Urdu) last night, Javed Jabbar said the Mujahideen ''want Kashmir liberated and there is no secrecy about our stand on the issue''.

Replying to a question on why Pakistani rulers were not in favour of instituting an inquiry commission into the Kargil episode though there were oft-repeated allegations against certain people over the consequences the country had to face, he said Pakistan, in contrast to India, has an open policy on Kashmir and thus had not felt the need for it.

When asked whether Pakistan does not want to assess the gains and losses from the Kargil war, Jabbar, evading a direct reply, accused the Nawaz Sharief government of digression from the ground realities during the Kargil war.

Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharief, had demanded an impartial inquiry into the Kargil episode. She believes her husband was thrown out because of Kargil.

Nawaz Sharief, during his meeting with US President Bill Clinton in July last year at the height of Kargil war, had reportedly blamed the army for the Kargil aggression.

Urdu daily Jang reported last month that the army had decided to institute a commission to inquire into Sharief and his government's efforts to malign the army during the Kargil war.

Pak to probe Sharief's 'bid to malign army'

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