Kolkata: Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh today repudiated former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf's comment that Pakistani Army had "caught India by throat" in the Kargil war, saying on the contrary the 1999 war has given him a "bloody nose".

"Musharrraf has no position (in Pakistan) as of today. He has been a maverick politician or a maverick leader. What he says does not have to be responded to. I think in the Kargil war we have given him a bloody nose," Singh said. He was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the launching of the fourth anti-submarine warfare corvette 'Kavaratti' here today.