IAF almost dropped a bomb on Nawaz Sharif, Musharraf during Kargil: Report

IAF aircraft almost struck a Pak army base during the 1999 war while Sharif was visiting it

During the Kargil war in 1999, the Indian Air Force (IAF) narrowly missed bombing a Pakistani army forward base that was hosting the current and then Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and then Pakistan Army chief General Pervez Musharraf, the Indian Express reported on Monday.

According to the national daily, an IAF Jaguar attack aircraft had targeted a forward base of the Pakistani army at the precise moment that Sharif and Musharraf happened to be present at the site. However, a second Jaguar jet, which was supposed to execute the actual bombing, dropped its payload outside the