'India knew about Pak Kargil plans'

A lengthy report in The News, based on the 100-page document, however, does not indicate how India got to know of the plan, except saying New Delhi had made all necessary preparations "to turn this battlefield into a deadly trap for Kashmiri freedom fighters and Pakistan".

The PML-N is headed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and hopes to use this document against President Pervez Musharraf in the run-up to the parliamentary elections next year.

Musharraf, on his part, has already responded to Sharif's claim of being kept in the dark about the operations in an Urdu book, Gaddar Kaun?

His English language book, In the Line of fire, is due for release shortly.

The White Paper, 'Kargil adventurismanother huge defeat after Dhaka fall, who is responsible?' was released in Karachi on Saturday.

Pakistan's dismemberment as a result of Bangladesh's separation in 1971 remains a dominant debate on the role of the military and the Kargil operation was seen as a way of avenging it.

The White Paper alleges that Musharraf forcibly removed Sharif in 1999 as he feared being court-martialled for the Kargil defeat.

It repeats the demand for a high-powered commission on the Kargil debacle at the earliest.

If the Indian government, despite winning in Kargil, had constituted a commission highlighting the pluses and minuses of the operation, what prevented Musharraf from constituting a commission in this regard, PML (N) leader Siddiqul Farooq, who released the report, asked.