ISLAMABAD, Aug 14: People's Party Parliamentarians (PPP) MNA Sherry Rehman has submitted a resolution to the National Assembly Secretariat seeking a debate on the report of the Indian Commission on Kargil, sources told Dawn here on Friday.

The sources said Ms Rehman had submitted the resolution as part of opposition's efforts to bring the Kargil issue in parliament for discussion.

Opposition parties in general and the Pakistan Muslim League-N in particular have been demanding formation of a judicial commission to fix responsibility for the Kargil debacle.

Earlier, PPP Senator Farhatullah Khan Babar and some other members of the ARD also submitted various resolutions and questions concerning the Kargil conflict, but those items were killed in the chamber by the Senate chairman.

The PML-N leaders claim that former PM Nawaz Sharif was not aware of the Kargil plan and it was an idea of Chief of Army Staff Gen Pervez Musharraf. But Gen Musharraf claims that Mr Sharif was given a comprehensive briefing on the plan and it was launched with his approval.

Recently, PML-N chairman Raja Zafarul Haq, in a press conference, quoted some extracts from the book of former US president Bill Clinton in support of the party's claim that Mr Sharif did not have prior knowledge about the Kargil operation. He said that if India could constitute a commission on the issue why not Pakistan?

The demand to form a commission on Kargil was made for the first time from the platform of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) in its last meeting on Aug 7 in Islamabad. But Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain rejected the demand, saying that it would generate unnecessary debate in the country.

The sources said the PPP believed that the Indian commission's report had already been made public and there was no harm in having a discussion on them. Ms Rehman has also submitted another resolution demanding that the Hamoodur Rehman Commission report on East Pakistan tragedy be officially made public.