Musharraf book says Manmohan Singh’s sincerity ebbing away

He has to dominate the establishment, rather than letting it dictate to him.”

Musharraf devotes a considerable portion of his 354-page memoirs to India-Pakistan relations in general and the Kashmir issue in particular and gives his own account of the failure of the Agra summit on July 16, 2001 between him and then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

“There is the man and there is the moment. When man and moment meet history us made. Vajpayee failed to grasp the moment and lost his moment in history,” he writes.

Recounting his last meeting at Agra before leaving the city, he writes: “I met Prime Minister Vajpayee at about 11 O’clock that night in an extremely sombre mood. I told him bluntly that there seems to be someone above the two of us who had the power to overrule us. I also said that both of us had been humiliated. He just sat there, speechless. I left abruptly, after thanking him in a brisk manner.”

Remembering Agra, the book has his picture along with wife Sebha in front of the Taj Mahal. In fact, one full page has been devoted to pictures of Musharraf with Indian leaders including Vajpayee, President, APJ Abdul Kalam, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Published by Simon and Schuster, the book starts with his train-journey from Delhi to Karachi and gives a detailed description of the events that bought Musharraf to power in 1999 and how he was appointed head of the Pakistan Army.