D escribing former Pakistan chief of army staff Lt Gen (retired) Shahid Aziz as an imbalanced personality who indulged in uncalled for character assassination, former president and army chief General (retired) Pervez Musharraf justified the 1999 Kargil War and stated that there was absolutely no need to inform everyone about the operation.





Rejecting the suggestion that he had wilfully put a "tight lid" on details regarding the Kargil war operation when he was Pakistan's chief of army staff, Musharraf told the Express News show Kal Tak that former prime minister Nwaz Sharif was solely to blame for the defeat, though militarily it was a success in the sense that it completely exposed the Indian security establishment's unpreparedness.





"If he (Sharif) had not visited the United States, we would have conquered 300 square miles of India," claimed Musharraf.



