They told the then PM, these were the usual incursions into Indian Occupied Kashmir, nothing like thousands of Pakistani soldiers are being deployed in IOK and they're like going to be bombed with bofors like there's no tomorrow. Further, the soldiers won't be getting any supplies as we're going pretend these are Kashmiri Mujahideen.
It's not PM's fault if Pakistani Army failed to tell the full story to the then PM and have since then spent 21-years trying to brainwash the Pakistani people into believing Kargil was fully conquered but PM didn't want to be seen as the hero of that conquest. What?
Let's just try to remember, Pakistani incursion started on 3rd May 1999 and PM went to the US on 4th July. PakistanI military had 2 full months to defeat the enemy but failed miserably and have never owned up to their blunder like a bunch of losers.
As I have stated before, let's stick to facts instead of noise. Pakistan did not have thousands of troops deployed and in harms way at Kargil. They numbered in the hundreds. There isn't enough real estate on the heights to put multiple battalions worth of troops in defensive positions.
There was dumping done to keep the troops supplied throughout the campaign. Only at the tail-end, when the Indians brought in air support, some of these lines were cut. Pakistani troops had taken over roughly 120 or so positions. Indians only talk about the 5 or so where they used air power to take the positions back after weeks of effort and losing countless lives.
As far as your point about "Pakistani Army failed to tell", that is your perception of it and also the canard that NS and his supporters have used to deflect responsibility. I also see you have also conveniently skipped the point about Ayub Khan and Bhutto executing on the very same plan and in that situation too, both the military and the civilian advisory side were in sync but the opprobrium is only reserved for Musharraf. I wonder why.
Lastly, in the two months that you mention, Pakistani forces had inflicted serious casualties on the Indian side to the point there was exasperation on their end. Never has the exchange been as lopsided on the LoC as it was during Kargil (despite what the propaganda machinery on the other side churns). The purpose of the Kargil operation was to put pressure on the Indian side militarily and make sure Kashmir stays on the table as such it is another episode in this long running Kashmir conflict. It brought the Kashmir issue back on the main stage for the region.
Many other nations do things which serve their national interests in the long term not giving a damn about the image. Case in point are all the military shenanigans in the Middle East by the Western powers or for that matter in Afghanistan.
Lastly, unlike fools, we don't need to own up to anything if the situation requires discretion. Operational security reasons at the time required things to be done discretely and kudos to the Army for going about it professionally. This applies when the situation requires all the tools at disposal to be leveraged i.e. covert, overt, diplomatic etc. This whole conflict is not a popularity contest as can be clearly seen by the recent Indian actions in IoK. So let's stop being so apologetic about what Pakistan has to do for Kashmir. The same goes for our policy in Afghanistan. We have to do what we must, foreign opinion be damned.
