KARGIL WAR

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in short


The Kargil War lasted from May 8 to July 26, 1999. The Indian troops confronted the infiltrators hiding in the high hills of frozen Kargil with courage and armed force. Today is the anniversary of that legendary victory.

Kargil is located at a distance of 202 km from Srinagar. It is a strategic region surrounded by the Himalayan mountains, with temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius

It was in the snowy May of 1999 that a neighbor tricked into the soil of Kargil. Shepherds in the area were the first to notice the presence of armed strangers. The five-member team led by Captain Saurabh Kalia, who went on patrol following the tip, did not return. It was not long before the Indian Army named that great battle. Operation Vijay.

 

Air Force MiG and Mirage aircraft from the sky and Army Bofors guns from the valley constantly fired at Pakistani infiltrators. Convinced that the Indian Army did not have the strength to stand up to its determination, the Pakistani army conceded defeat. Tololing, Hump Point, Tiger Hill All the strategic hills are once again rise on Indian flag. The festivities started in Kargil and spread across the country.

 

We lost 527 brave men in that 84-day war. 527 heroes who valued the dignity of the motherland over the death before their eyes.

KARGIL

The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict,[note (I)] was an armed conflict fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LoC). In India, the conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay (Hindi: विजय, lit. 'Victory'), which was the name of the Indian military operation to clear out the Kargil sector.[19] The Indian Air Force's role in acting jointly with Indian Army ground troops during the war was aimed at flushing out regular and irregular troops of the Pakistan Army from vacated Indian positions along the LoC.[20] This particular operation was given the codename Operation Safed Sagar (Hindi: ऑपरेशन सफेद सागर, lit. 'White Sea').

The cause of the war was the infiltration of Pakistani troops—disguised as Kashmiri militants—into positions on the Indian side of the LoC,[21] which serves as the de facto border between the two states in Kashmir. During the initial stages of the war, Pakistan blamed the fighting entirely on independent Kashmiri insurgents, but documents left behind by casualties and later statements by Pakistan's Prime Minister and Chief of Army Staff showed the involvement of Pakistani paramilitary forces,[22][23][24] led by General Ashraf Rashid.[25] The Indian Army, later supported by the Indian Air Force, recaptured a majority of the positions on the Indian side of the LoC. Facing international diplomatic opposition, Pakistani forces withdrew from the remaining Indian positions along the LoC.


The war is the most recent example of high-altitude warfare in mountainous terrain, and as such, posed significant logistical problems for the combating sides. It is also the sole instance of direct, conventional warfare between nuclear states (i.e., those possessing nuclear weapons). India had conducted its first successful test in 1974; Pakistan, which had been developing its nuclear capability in secret since around the same time, conducted its first-known tests in 1998, just two weeks after a second series of tests by India.


CASUALITIES


Pakistan army losses have been difficult to determine. Pakistan confirmed that 453 soldiers were killed. The US Department of State had made an early, partial estimate of close to 700 fatalities. According to numbers stated by Nawaz Sharif there were over 4,000 fatalities. His PML (N) party in its "white paper" on the war mentioned that more than 3,000 Mujahideens, officers and soldiers were killed.[214] Another major Pakistani political party, the Pakistan Peoples Party, also says that "thousands" of soldiers and irregulars died.[215] Indian estimates stand at 1,042 Pakistani soldiers killed.[216] Musharraf, in his Hindi version of his memoirs, titled "Agnipath", differs from all the estimates stating that 357 troops were killed with a further 665 wounded.[217] Apart from General Musharraf's figure on the number of Pakistanis wounded, the number of people injured in the Pakistan camp is not yet fully known although they are at least more than 400 according to Pakistan army's website.[218] One Indian pilot was officially captured during the fighting, while there were eight Pakistani soldiers who were captured during the fighting, and were repatriated on 13 August 1999.[219] India gave its official casualty figures as 527 dead and 1,363 wounded.

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