The two had signed the famous Lahore declaration while the Pak Army was in advanced stages of setting up posts in the Kargil, Dras and Batalik sectors.

Choosing the name for the book was also an interesting exercise. Given that Musharraf was inspired by the 2003 Clint Eastwood film of that name, the thinking by Indian publishers was why not use an Amitabh Bachchan movie for the Hindi version and so the choice fell on Agnipath.

With all in the loop bound by a strict secrecy contract, the only sense on the book is that Musharraf has given a fairly “open account” of the key events in his career. The focus, of course, being the military coup in which he toppled Sharif, the Kargil war, his Kashmir diplomacy with India, 9/11 and the United States, the India-Pakistan border stand-off, his war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and the country’s nuclear programme.