I go with Musharraf! It is impossible to believe that Nawaz Sharif was not in the know in the operation, at best it would not have had his open approval! As Musharraf said, if the PM was not the know what his Army Chief was doing then he doesn't deserve to rule the nation! If Vajpayee played it to Nawaz Sharif then no one can be more ignorant! Musharraf is a tactless, adventure driven, yet a Pakistani patriot! Nawaz Sharif was clever, if the operation succeeded he would have had the all the glory on him; since it boomranged he is blaming Musharraf! Musharaf is a fine soldier and Nawaz Sharif a shrewd politician!
Indira Gandhi didn't make any of these goof-ups; she won a major war decisively for the country and Vajpayee had to sweat it out to pushback the enemy soldiers even that amidst controversies by forcing the then Army chief VP Malik to expedite even at the cost of losing a few youngmen not beyond their mid-thirties! Nothing proud to write home about.
