William Webster, who had come from the FBI to become the new CIA director after Bill Casey's death in May 1987, vowed to straighten out an agency tarnished by its reputation for deceit. Webster turned up the temperature on Pakistan by showing Bhutto exactly what the US knew about Islamabad's nuclear program, including a mock up bomb. Bhutto recalled: "It was daunting. Half of this stuff I did not know. Missiles, Jets. Shopping for components to deploy our bombs. What could one say? So much had been withheld from me but I could not use that as an excuse. I was prime minister. The message took away was the need to wrestle back control of Khan and the program." ["Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons" by Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark] On 29th December 1993, when the Benazir Bhutto flew into Pyongyang, with a series of CDs with Nuclear warhead designs in her overcoat to give to Kim-Il-sung, the wind had changed directions. The answer to the question of Pakistan's perfidy with respect to the Nuclear Weapons had not - Benazir was still to say "No Pakistan does not". Politicians in Pakistan learn to toe the line of Pakistan Army and ISI. So, when a politician in Pakistan says "No, Pakistan does not" - it means two things: - He/she does not know because the Pakistan Army and/or ISI has kept it in dark (and away from the politician), or - He cannot say because that is the ONLY way for him/her to survive. And to the outside world, it essentially means nothing! As India handed over the 3 bodies of Pakistani Army soldiers who had infiltrated in Kargil . Pakistan denied any link to Kargil infiltration and Information Minister, Mushahid Hussain, told the BBC that the three men were on a routine patrol on the Pakistani side of the Line of Control when they were ambushed by Indian forces. The Pakistani denial went on through out the conflict. Later on pressure from Bill Clinton and Pakistani Army's capitulation on the ground, and loss of face for Pakistan, the hitherto called infiltrators were called back. The coup and the bickering between Nawaz Sharif and Musharraf into who sent the Pakistani Army to Kargil is now well known. This was and would not be the first time that Pakistan, its establishment and its Army point blank denied any claims or involvement in any act of war on India. They follow a template created in 1948 by the founders of the nation, when the Pakistani regular soldiers dressed as tribals started attacking the THEN independent Kingdom of Kashmir. Pakistan and its establishment has done an encore on the Mumbai attacks. Read more