With respect, given your views on the one hand, and Air Cdre Kaiser Tufail's written, and uncontradicted testimony on the other hand, there is little doubt which account we will believe.
This is contradicted by a whole host of Pakistani generals who have appeared on (Pakistani) talk shows and testified that Kargil was a misadventure launched by only three generals, who kept not just the PAF and the PN, but the rest of the PA in the dark until the fighting started.
This is further contradicted by the adamant insistence, in the teeth of evidence recovered from the dead bodies of Pakistani personnel, that the people in the bunkers on hilltops were 'mujahedin' and had nothing to do with the PA. It was long after the cessation of hostilities that there were, first, reluctant admissions that the formation was the Northern Light Infantry, a para-military Pakistani formation that was absorbed into the regular Pakistan Army as a reward, second, posthumous decorations handed out, the highest award being made to an officer recommended by the Indian Army.
And to think that I had respect for your realism.
Bhutto was nothing, a nobody, in 1971. Despite the elections, and his victory in the west, the country was still under martial law, and that lasted until after the surrender of Dhaka, when Yahya handed over power to Bhutto. So what Bhutto had to do with the army being at war is difficult to understand.