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US had warned Pakistan to get out of occupied areas during Kargil War

Islamabad: "India is hopping mad. Please get out of the places you have occupied," was the American message to Pakistan in the wake of the Kargil War in 1999, the country's then envoy to the

PTI PTI Updated on: April 28, 2014 10:09 IST
He dismissed the notion that the theatre of war would have expanded had Pakistan not withdrawn.

"The US said India is hopping mad. Please get out of the areas you have occupied otherwise the theatre of war might expand. It was a mere threat that US used," he said.

Khokhar said there was no movement of troops on the Indian side to suggest that the theatre of war would spread.

Zehra said, "Kargil is not something that Pakistan Army as an institution is proud of".

She said there was a "Kargil clique" of "four generals who had planned it which was more or less a disaster".

Pakistani soldiers needed better leadership than those who planned the Kargil conflict, she said.
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