Islamabad, Sept 11(ANI): Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz (PML-N) Deputy Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal has accused Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain of deliberately distorting the Kargil episode.
"Altaf Hussain, by distorting facts, tried to bail out his benefactor General [Pervez] Musharraf from the responsibility for the Kargil fiasco," SANA quoted Iqbal, as saying.
"The reality has already come out from the horse's mouth, as General Anthony Zinni, who headed the US Central Command from 1997 to 2000 and was sent to Pakistan as a special presidential envoy during the Kargil crisis, has given first hand account of the events in his book," he added.
It was Musharraf who advised and persuaded former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to listen to the US proposal for withdrawing troops from Kargil, says General Anthony Zinni, in his book "Battle Ready", which was published in the United States.
General Zinni dispels the general impression that it was the civilian leadership in Pakistan that sought Washington's help for arranging a respectable withdrawal from Kargil, the SANA report said.
Instead, the former general says that Pakistan's civilian leadership was worried about a loss of face that the withdrawal could have caused, and to allay their fears, former US President Bill Clinton offered a plan that could have arranged a respectable withdrawal, said the report.
But even at this stage, according to General Zinni, Sharif and his civilian colleagues appeared reluctant to endorse a withdrawal, it added.
That got the attention of Musharraf, who encouraged Prime Minister Sharif to "hear me out and to go to Washington D.C." writes General Zinni. (ANI)
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