New Delhi, Jan 27: Pakistan's retired Lt. General Shahid Aziz, who then headed the analysis wing of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has candidly admitted that regular Pakistani soldiers, and not mujahideen, fought the 1999 Kargil War, which he called an "unsound military plan based on invalid assumptions".
In an article published in the Pakistani newspaper The Nation on January 6, Lt Gen Shahid Aziz, who retired in 2005 as commander of the IV Corps in Lahore, wrote: "There were no mujahideen, only taped wireless messages, which fooled no one. Our soldiers were made to occupy barren ridges, with hand held weapons and ammunition".
Pakistan's army and establishment had all along been claiming that Mujahideen, not their regular soldiers, had fought the Kargil War.
Criticising former dictator Pervez Musharraf in the article, Aziz makes the point that the entire battle was ill-planned and young soldiers were used as "war fodder" for the "misadventure".
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