The betrayer of the 1999 Lahore Declaration and the architect of the following Kargil battle, former Pakistan Military chief and navy dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf is useless. A commander of the elite Particular Companies Group (SSG) of the Pakistan Military, Gen Musharraf was a high-risk taker as he confirmed within the Kargil battle in opposition to India with wonderful navy ways however poor strategic appreciation. It was throughout his tenure as a navy dictator that Pakistan expanded its nuclear arsenal and revealed its low nuclear threshold and first-use coverage along with his then strategic plans division chief figuring out the 4 crimson traces earlier than Rawalpindi would use the nukes.
A Mohajir from Delhi in Punjab-Pashtun-dominated Pakistan Military, Gen Musharraf tried to overcompensate for this vulnerability by attempting to outshine his navy colleagues and launched audacious navy operations in opposition to India alongside the Mushkoh-Drass-Kargil[-Batalik entrance in Jammu and Kashmir in March 1999, a month after Lahore Declaration was signed on February 21.
His plan was to do a Bangladesh on India and cleave Ladakh and Siachen from Indian hinterland with an offensive to extreme Indian territory Mushkoh Valley upwards by capturing the Nationwide Freeway 1 Alpha after which starve Indian navy positions in South Siachen glacier. This was Musharraf’s revenge for the 1971 battle and 1984 Operation Meghdoot by the Indian Military.
In doing so, he not solely embarrassed his personal then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif put up Lahore go to of Indian PM A B Vajpayee but in addition humiliated Pak PM at Washington with the US ordering Sharif to announce unilateral withdrawal of Pak forces from Kargil Theatre on July 4, 1999. The battle ended on July 26, 1999, with the Pakistan Military going through a disgraceful defeat and the Indian Military approaching prime with out shedding even an inch of land within the battle theatre. Musharraf then overthrew Sharif on October 12, 1999, and have become the navy dictator of Pakistan.
It was after the navy coup that Gen Pervez Musharraf tried to play a statesman by coming to India for a summit with then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on July 14-16, 2001 at Agra. Regardless of the navy dictator having the ability to promote a lemon to western and Indian media about his sincerity to unravel the Kashmir subject and cross-border terrorism, the Vajpayee authorities noticed via the Kargil Common and refused to present in to any calls for of Pakistan. The summit failed and the 2 nations nearly got here to battle after the December 13, 2001, Jaish-e-Mohammed terror assault on Parliament.
Coming underneath strain from the west and the Indian Military mobilization put up terror assault, Gen Musharraf once more modified ways and warranted India and the world that it will not enable its territory for use for terror assaults in opposition to India. His duplicitous aspect was once more revealed as Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists massacred harmless ladies and kids at Kaluchak Military Camp in Jammu on Could 14, 2002, whereas the Indian Military was nonetheless forwardly deployed in opposition to Pakistan in Operation Parakram. It was on the sidelines of the SAARC summit in Islamabad in January 2004 that Musharraf assured Vajpayee that he wouldn’t enable any territory in Pakistani management (learn Occupied Kashmir) for use to assist terrorism in any method. This kick-started the bilateral composite dialogue between the 2 nations and the normalization of relations with a number of peace and safety confidence-building measures together with the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service in 2005.
Whereas Pervez Musharraf tried to play the peacemaker with India put up 2004, his run-ins with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court docket and Pakistan-based terror teams weakened him politically, and militarily with Common Ashfaq Kayani taking up as Military Chief in 2007. He went into political oblivion after November 2008 though he tried to make a comeback within the 2013 Pak basic elections. He left for exile in Dubai the second time in 2016 and handed away this morning with none lasting legacy besides the person who betrayed Pakistan at Kargil.