Sharif could have been aware of Kargil aggression: Jaswant

Singh said he does not want to say that he disbelieves Sharif's contention “because then I am charging the Prime Minister of prevarication.”

Singh, the then External Affairs Minister, has written about the Kargil episode in his new book ‘India At Risk'.  

He suggested that the aggression by the Pakistan army was Musharraf's machinations aimed at scuttling the reconciliation effort attempted by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's bus ride to Lahore.

“We had attempted to set a course and Musharraf altered that course. We are back to the same situation,” he observed.  Singh, who was part of the bus ride in February 1999, said Vajpayee's bold decision had caught the imagination globally.