New Delhi, July 24 - The Kargil operation was a 'big success' as it forced India to come to the negotiating table on Kashmir, says former Pakistan president and then army chief Pervez Musharraf, 10 years after the high-altitude conflict that took the neighbours to the brink of a full-scale war.

'Yes, indeed, it was a big success because it had (an) impact even on the attitudes of the Indian side. How did we start discussing the Kashmir dispute?' Musharraf asked interviewer Karan Thapar in the 'Devil's Advocate' programme to be telecast on CNN-IBN Sunday.

He said Kargil was the single event that made India come to the negotiating table on Kashmir.

Though he would not comment on a query if he would ever repeat the Kargil operation, the former president said the chapter must be closed.

'Let's close this chapter... You cannot take Kargil alone (otherwise) I would like to take Siachen, I would like to take East Pakistan. We have to stop maligning each other. We have done enough harm to each other.'

He said both India and Pakistan should now go the entire way to the resolution of their disputes.

'If you want to go on the course of peace, we need to resolve these disputes. And Pakistan has its own honour and dignity to be guarded. That's what I always say. Don't try to dominate or don't try to affect our sovereignty.'

In his memoir 'In the Line of Fire', Musharraf had said the Pakistani Army's Rawalpindi Corps and Force Command Northern Areas (FCNA) were involved in the Kargil operation, contradicting the official line that Kargil was started by Kashmiri 'freedom fighters'.

When asked about his revelation, Musharraf, however, said the Pakistan Army was only the 'second line force'.

'You must understand the arrangement. The Rawalpindi Corps has divisions under it and one of them is FCNA. FCNA has under it the NLI (Northern Light Infantry), a second line force,' he asserted.

As he saw it, the Kargil war came to an end with Pakistani military being in a 'very favourable' position.

'It was certainly very favourable. It was not supposedly favourable.