Author: Express News Service
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: June 26, 2003
URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=26501
Benazir Bhutto has said that Pervez
Musharraf, then Director General of Military Operations, had brought the
Kargil Plan to her when she was Pakistan's Prime Minister and she had shot
it down.
''Kargil was an absolute disaster,''
Bhutto told Third Eye Television in an interview, adding, ''I asked Gen
Musharraf what would happen when the Kargil plan was put up to me. And
he said he would put the flag of Pakistan on the Srinagar Assembly.''
She said she vetoed the plan because
she knew that ''ultimately we would have been asked to go back to where
we were and that's exactly what happened. So, I wish they had listened
to what I had said at that time and not got lost in the brilliance of the
military strategy.''
Bhutto also said that during her
tenure there were no non-Kashmiri groups involved in the Kashmiri insurgency.
''It is under Musharraf's watch that the Taliban have regrouped. And it
is under Musharraf's watch that the home-grown militants are dictating
the foreign policy of Pakistan. Where we have incidents like Kargil, the
Indian Parliament attack and we have incidents where the housing colony
of military officers in India are blown up,'' she said.
