Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, who was the Army chief during the Kargil conflict, had admitted to the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that the conflict was a ‘‘misadventure’’ and had urged him to initiate steps to save the country from an embarrassment, a top leader of Sharif’s party was quoted as saying today.Blaming Pakistan’s generals for the 1999 Kargil fiasco, the acting President and Parliamentary leader of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Javed Hashmi said that after the bloody clashes with the Indian Army, the three services chiefs sought an emergency meeting with Sharif at the Governor’s House in Lahore and admitted that they had committed a ‘‘misadventure’’.After the meeting with service chiefs, Sharif took all necessary steps to save them from the impending embarrassment and finalised his plans to visit Washington, where he finally agreed for a ceasefire, Hashmi, a former minister, said Sunday.On Sharif’s return from US, Musharraf called on him and saluted him for achieving a ceasefire, Hashmi told a seminar.The PML leader also charged that the present regime headed by Musharraf has greed to share command and control system of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons with the US which, he said, would gravely hurt Pakistan’s interest and the Army’s prestige.
