“In early May 1999, the Pakistani army, at the instigation of Gen. Pervez Musharraf, seizes a strategic height called Kargil in the Indian province of Kashmir. This creates a grave crisis between Pakistan in India. By early July, the CIA picks up intelligence that Pakistan is preparing to launch nuclear missiles against India if necessary. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif comes to the US on July 4 to meet with President Clinton about this.
Clinton is livid and yells at Sharif for breaking promises, not only about Kashmir but also about failing to help with bin Laden. According to notes taken at the meeting, Clinton says he had “asked repeatedly for Pakistani help to bring Osama bin Laden to justice… [Sharif] promised often to do so but had done nothing. Instead, the ISI worked with bin Laden and the Taliban to foment terrorists.” Clinton threatens to release a statement calling worldwide attention to Pakistan’s support for terrorists.
He adds, “You’ve put me in the middle today, set the US up to fail, and I won’t let it happen. Pakistani is messing with nuclear war.” Sharif backs down and immediately withdraws his troops from Kargil, ending the crisis. But as a result, Sharif becomes deeply unpopular in Pakistan.
A few months later he will be ousted in a coup by Musharraf (see October 12, 1999), the general who started the crisis in the first place. (Coll 2004, pp. 476-478)”
You cant clap with one hand my friend... If the Indians dont want relations to improve, which they have demonstrated consistantly over the past few years through this so called peace process, then why should we bend over backwards to try to befriend them?
And just a little 411, India has succesfuly undermined Pakistan for many years...
India refused Pakistan military equipment and financial entitlements at partition, undermined the Kashmir issue among other kingdoms etc...
Later they undermined relations between East and West Pakistn by prohibiting overland flights... And then the eventual break up of Pakistan...
The whole Siachin issue...
So India has been playing the adversary for many years, even prior to their decade of growth.
:) You need to ask our government for 'bending over backwards' with its CBMs and NOT EVEN a single CBM has been reciprocated and india built dams on ur waters.. build boundary walls..and so much..
^^which CBM has not been reciprocated?...give example and be specific.
Which boundry wall?..are you talking about fencing in kashmir?..as far as i know it can be built after some distance from LOC. and it is not being broken. Moreover, it is not a wall...it is just a fence. can be removed any time.and we very well know what your army is. start firing and under that garb militants sneak in. you call that CBM??...as far as dam goes, even after you complained to UN, some UN representatives inspected that dam. what happened after that?...i don't know what happened.