Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today accepted that the occupation of Kargil by Pakistani troops in the year 1999 was a misadventure and a stab in the back for then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, especially when the two countries were involved in a peace process at Lahore.

Vajpayee had visited Lahore in February 1999 after getting an invitation from Sharif, and the two had signed the Lahore Declaration, a bilateral agreement and governance treaty between India and Pakistan.

"Vajpayee told me that he was stabbed in the back because of Pakistan's misadventure in Kargil, especially during the process of Lahore Declaration. Vajpayee was right. I would have said the same thing - he was certainly backstabbed (in Kargil)," he said while addressing a rally in Muzzafarabad.

"But, who do I complain to about that now. We [India and Pakistan] pray to the same God," he stated.

Sharif also spoke about how alike the people of the two countries are, and even cherished the same delicacies.

"People of India and Pakistan are alike, except for the border in between. We both cherish Aloo Gosht delicacy," he added.

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