Lahore: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday admitted that Islamabad had “violated” the agreement signed with India in 1999 by him and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He said this in an apparent reference to the Kargil attack carried out by General Pervez Musharraf. Addressing the general council of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) after being elected president of the party. Sharif said, “On May 28, 1998, Pakistan conducted five nuclear tests. After that Vajpayee sahab came here and signed an agreement with us. But, we violated that agreement. It was our mistake.
Kargil war happened due to Pakistani infiltration
Let us tell you that Nawaz Sharif and Vajpayee signed the Lahore Agreement here on February 21, 1999. This agreement, which talked about a vision of peace and stability between the two countries, marked a major breakthrough, but a few months later Pakistani intrusion into the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir led to the Kargil War.
Nawaz Sharif said these things
“President Bill Clinton offered five billion US dollars to stop Pakistan from conducting nuclear tests but I refused. If a person like (former Prime Minister) Imran Khan was in my seat, he would have accepted Clinton’s offer,” Sharif said as Pakistan celebrated the 26th anniversary of its nuclear tests.
Elected party president after 6 years
Let us tell you that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was elected unopposed as the President of PML-N on Tuesday after six years. He was acquitted in all corruption cases against him last year. The PML-N supremo returned to the command of the party six years after losing the post of party president due to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Panama Papers case. Nawaz told the crowd that they should not be happy because of his re-election as President, but because “Saqib Nisar’s decision has been thrown into the dustbin.
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