Chief of his own faction Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Muhammad Nawaz  Sharif on Thursday said that a band of conspirators attacked Kargil to  foil his efforts to resolve the Kashmir issue. While addressing a public  gathering in Kotli, Nawaz said that the Kashmir issue would have been  resolved had his efforts not been sabotaged. He said that the Indian  prime minister had visited Pakistan after the nuclear blast and had  asked him to declare 1999 as the year of Kashmir resolution. Nawaz said  that the country was passing through difficult times, but he would fight  like a lion for the achievement of rights.