Nope. I have never been there, and in all probability never will. Just an average Joe behind an average laptop here. I trust the news media for the most part. It just seems so unlikely that Vajpayee had personally taken a bus ride to Lahore just to ask Nawaz to pull his men back. If there is any merit to this conjecture, then every private news outlet in the country would have had a field day with it. Besides, the opposition in our Parliament would have brandished this as a national shame and could have wrecked havoc on BJP.
Listen you don't have to go to Kashmir border now. Just do some research.
One simple way to figure out the events is to look at the time line:
Nov-Dec -1998: Indians pack up for the winter and leave the forward positions on the high peaks of Kargil
--- Both Paks and Indis have been doing this for years.
-- However this time Pakistanis have trouble in their minds
Jan 1999- Pakistanis move in (this is an unheard of to move men and material in that fing cold and snow)
-- Indians figure it out right then and say "Oh $hit"
-- Next few weeks: there is hectic communication between the two side
-- Pakistanis say, you vacate Siachin, we vacate Kargil
-- Indians refuse to negotiate, however the cold winter snow and ice means no action can be taken until May
Feb 20, 1999:
-- Bajpai in Lahore, meets NS. Pleads for pull back
-- NS consults Musharraf. (Musharraf repeats the Pakistani position of linking Siachin and Kargil)
-- Bajpai goes home without any deal
Indian army prepares plans.
May 1999
-- War begins.
From Pakistani POV, it was a $tupid war. We didn't consider one important factor in our calculation. Air power and precision guided bombs to be used by IAF.
Rest is they say is history.
You are correct. If Indians knew about this, Bajpai would have been BBQ'd live. Hence the conspiracy and media misinformation.
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