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Musharraf: I was chief of army staff, so I take full responsibility for whatever my army does. However, Kargil has to be seen in the total perspective of Kashmir, and such far-reaching decisions are not taken by one man alone. Everyone was on board, including the Prime Minister. As far as my attitude toward India is concerned, I've been very realistic. I surely believe there has to be peace in the region and we have to resolve all our issues with India. But can we do anything without progress on Kashmir? No, we can't. It's just...
...record and the timing of the poll. Last year Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had rallied the nation behind his government when it tested its first nuclear weapons; then he did the same early in the summer by ejecting Pakistan-backed guerrillas from the Kargil region of Kashmir. And the early election wasn't brought about by popular discontent; the BJP government lost its majority when a controversial actress at the head of regional party had quit the coalition after Vajpayee refused to shield her from corruption charges - a situation that engendered sympathy for the BJP among the meager...
...took the extraordinary step Tuesday of announcing that it strongly opposes any coup attempt in Pakistan, just in case any one thought Washington might acquiesce in the ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. "Nawaz has been under tremendous political pressure ever since Pakistan was forced to withdraw from the Kargil region of Kashmir," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "There was a lot of anger in the military at being ordered to withdraw, and it?s all being directed at the prime minister. Even though the military has undertaken in recent years not to intervene in politics, it might...
...ridges now we have disposable rocket launchers, surface-to-air missiles and machine guns, including antiaircraft guns. On one occasion I was positioned on a mountain facing the Drass-Kargil highway. It's fun to target the Indian convoys...
...talks, and says evicting the intruders is the only item on the agenda. But they may agree on a formula that allows Pakistan to save face by withdrawing the insurgents in exchange for the creation of an India-Pakistan commission to review border arrangements in the Kargil zone, where the current fighting is raging, and in which the terrain has precluded the mapped border from being physically demarcated. Otherwise, India appears content to keep on pounding the insurgents? positions and let the pressure of an imminent IMF payment focus Pakistan?s mind...