Brajesh Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister and National Security Adviser, told Star TV on Friday, ``What we had agreed in Lahore was to resume a composite dialogue in the same pattern as agreed to in New York in September,'' even as the Congress asked the PM to disclose the contours of the `secret deal.'

The nation, it said, could not be kept in the dark about "such a sensitive matter."

Asked whether any assurance on Kashmir was given to former Pakistan foreign secretary Niaz Naik during his visit to India at the height of Kargil crisis, Mishra said ``No, not at all''.

Congress spokesperson Kapil Sibal said Naik had spilled the beans that but for the Kargil episode, India and Pakistan could have clinched a deal on the Kashmir issue.

He also pointed out that Pakistani Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz had told thePakistani senate that Sharif and Vajpayee had reached an agreement that envisaged the `resolution' of the Kashmir issue within twelve months. The agreement included mutual respect of the line of control, something that Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah wanted to convert into an international boundary.

Aziz also alleged that New Delhi backed out saying a caretaker government should not make such a vital commitment.

The Government, he said, should disclose the details of the backchannel diplomacy conducted in the backdrop of sugar imports from the mills owned by Sharif's family members.

He said the Vajpayee Government is in the habit of conducting diplomacy, be it with Pakistan or United States, with utmost secrecy and not caring to inform the nation.

Prove Kargil charges, PM tells Cong

ALIGARH: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today asked the Congress to disclose the `sources' from where it received information that Kargil intrusions took place in September last year. TheCongress' allegation that Pakistani intruders had entered the Indian territory last September was totally false, Vajpayee said addressing a huge election rally at the exhibition ground here.