Pakistan violated peace agreement with India in 1999, says former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
The Lahore Declaration was violated when Pakistani Army chief Pervez Musharraf ordered his forces to infiltrate Kargil, leading to a war with India.
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Pakistan violated the Lahore Declaration that it had signed with India in 1999, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday, PTI reported.
The Lahore Declaration was a peace agreement between the two countries signed on February 21, 1999 by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Indian prime minister at the time, and his Pakistani counterpart Sharif.
“On May 28, 1998, Pakistan carried out five nuclear tests,” Sharif said at an event on Tuesday. “After that, Vajpayee saheb came here and made an agreement with us. But we violated that agreement. It was our fault.”
The agreement had called for maintaining peace and security, and promoting people-to-people contact, among other steps, to improve bilateral relations. However, Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistan Army chief at the time, had ordered his forces to covertly infiltrate into Ladakh’s Kargil district starting from March 1999 to May 1999.
This led to a war between the two countries between May 1999 and July 1999. Sharif was Pakistan’s prime minister at the time.
At the general council meeting of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) on Tuesday, Sharif also claimed that he carried out nuclear bomb tests in 1998 despite pressure from the United States.
“[US] President Bill Clinton [at the time] had offered Pakistan $5 billion to stop us from carrying out nuclear tests...
