New Delhi: In an apparent outreach to India in the wake of Pathankot attacks, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was justified in believing that Kargil was a stab in the back for India.
"Vajpayee told me he had been stabbed in the back with the Kargil misadventure because it came soon after the Lahore Declaration. I told him I would have said the same thing if I were in his place but who do I complain to about it now?" Sharif said.
The bilateral relations took a massive hit in the wake of the Kargil misadventure as it came close on the heels of friendly overtures from India including Vajpayee's bus trip from Delhi to Lahore.
Sharif has been maintaining that the then army chief, Pervez Musharraf, had not informed him about the armed intrusion into Indian territory in the summer of 1999 that led to a war-like situation between the two nuclear-armed nations.
According to official figures 527 Indian troopers, including 26 officers, were killed in the bloody conflict in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir when Indian troops fought Pakistan-based militants who had crossed the icy frontier.
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