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Now that he has written his memoirs, we know what General Pervez Musharraf made of the “reality of Kashmir” in the months after he took power. What he did not see was that Pakistan was dangerously close to loosing its long-running subconventional war in Kashmir, a war of which, in Musharraf’s strategic vision, Kargil was only a part.
Then came the Kargil Operation with all its reality and distortions. It proved a lesson to the Indians and a rude awakening to the world of the reality of Kashmir.
President Pervez Musharraf1
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Swami, P. (2011). The Roots of Crisis—Post-Kargil Conflict in Kashmir and the 2001–2002 Near-War. In: Davis, Z.S. (eds) The India-Pakistan Military Standoff. Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118768_2
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