Islamabad: A Pakistan military inquiry committee, which probed the Kargil debacle, had recommended "court martial" of General Pervez Musharraf, claimed a White Paper on Kargil released by Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) party.
Sharif had "constituted a military inquiry committee that recommended court martial" of Army Chief Musharraf, but Musharraf overthrew then government and "stole" the report from the Prime Minister's House "to save his face," Joint Secretary of (PMN-N) Siddiqul Farooq, who released the 100-page White Paper on Saturday, was quoted as saying.
Anticipating court-martial in the wake of the Kargil debacle, Farooq said, Musharraf overthrew the Sharif government on October 12, 1999 to save his "neck."
"The General wanted to take over in the first week of August, but he had to hold his horses till October," he said. Musharraf's court martial was recommended following Kargil'
Musharraf had wilfully avoided constituting a commission to fix the responsibility for the huge military defeat that had demoralised the entire nation, Farooq said and called for setting up a high-power commission on the Kargil debacle that should submit its findings to Parliament within six months.
The PML-N White Paper titled Kargil Adventurism: Another Huge Defeat after Dhaka Fall, Who is responsible recommended that Musharraf should "admit his blunders" and present himself for a court-martial.
"If he does not have the moral courage to own his blunders then his court martial is a must to close the doors of future takeovers by adventurer Generals," excerpts of the White Paper published in the media said.
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