We didn't know better then. As we celebrated cricket, Gen @P_Musharraf launched #Pak Army into #Kargil. Dec 18, 1999 Capt Nadeem & L/NK Laikjaan & others were sent on reconnaissance patrols. We gave Pak cricketers a standing ovation, Pak Army firmed up defences on Kargil heights
https://twitter.com/ananthkrishnan/status/1453650392177262592
530 Indian families lost a son, a brother, a husband, a soldier in the #Kargil war. In the months preceding Kargil, #Lahore bus journey was hailed as a game changer that would herald an era of peace. Pak sent one team to Chepauk, another with Assault rifles & Arty guns to Kargil.
We could have been fooled then but now we have access to information even from #Pakistan. The architects of the plan Gen Musharraf, Lt Gen Mohd Aziz Khan (CGS), Lt Gen Mahmud Ahmed (X Corps Cdr) & executed by Maj Gen Javed Hasan, (FCNA) & Brig Nusrat Sial (62 Bde Cdr) #FactsFirst
By end Dec 98 & early Jan 99, elements of 3 NLI, 5 NLI, 12 NLI, 13 NLI & some elements from Azad Kashmir & Sindh Regiment were launched to occupy Kargil, Drass, Batalik & Mushkoh valley heights. Mid Jan, Gen @P_Musharraf had a meeting in GHq sharing details with Corps Commanders.
Feb 1999 then PM Atal Behari Vajpayee took the bus journey to #Lahore. The same time #Pakistan #Army was carving out gun positions, helipads & logistics bases. In March 1999 Gen @P_Musharraf crossed LoC & spent a night 11 km inside Indian territory (Pak stabbed India in the back)
Similarly when Pak experts say the period between 2005 & 08 was a golden period in India-Pak ties & India was even willing to de-militarise #Siachen as a good will gesture, #Pakistan ISI was planning & executing 2006 train bombings (200 dead), 2008 Ahmedabad terror strike & 26/11
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