Kargil War 1999
Kargil War
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Kargil War | Part of the Indo-Pakistani Wars | An Indian Bofors 155 mm howitzer field gun being repositioned during the war. | Date | May-July 1999 | Location | Kargil district, Kashmir | Result | Indian Victory as India retook Pakistani occupied ridges. Pakistan withdrew from Indian-controlled Kashmir to pre-war Line of Control. | Territorial changes | Status quo ante bellum | | Belligerents | India |
Pakistan,
Mujahideen, Foreign volunteers | Commanders | Ved Prakash Malik | Pervez Musharraf | Strength | 30,000 | 5,000 | Casualties and losses | Indian Official Figures:
527 killed,[1][2][3]
1,363 wounded[4]
1 POW | Pakistani Estimates:
357-4,000 killed[5][6] (Pakistan troops)
665+ soldiers wounded[5]8 POW.[7] |
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The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict,(I) was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control. The cause of the war was the infiltration of Pakistani soldiers and Kashmiri militants into positions on the Indian side of the Line of Control (LOC),[8] which serves as the de facto border between the two states. 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 involvement of Pakistani paramilitary forces,[9][10][11] led by General Ashraf Rashid.[12] The Indian Army,
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Kargil War | Part of the Indo-Pakistani Wars | An Indian Bofors 155 mm howitzer field gun being repositioned during the war. | Date | May-July 1999 | Location | Kargil district, Kashmir | Result | Indian Victory as India retook Pakistani occupied ridges. Pakistan withdrew from Indian-controlled Kashmir to pre-war Line of Control. | Territorial changes | Status quo ante bellum | | Belligerents | India |
Pakistan,
Mujahideen, Foreign volunteers | Commanders | Ved Prakash Malik | Pervez Musharraf | Strength | 30,000 | 5,000 | Casualties and losses | Indian Official Figures:
527 killed,[1][2][3]
1,363 wounded[4]
1 POW | Pakistani Estimates:
357-4,000 killed[5][6] (Pakistan troops)
665+ soldiers wounded[5]8 POW.[7] |
[show] Kargil War | | | Battle of Tiger Hill · Battle of Tololing · Operation Safed Sagar · Operation Talwar · Operation Vijay · | |
[show] Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts | | | Kashmir conflict · 1947 War · 1965 War · 1971 War · Siachen · Operation Brasstacks · Operation Rakshak · Kargil War · Atlantique Incident · Operation Parakram | |
The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict,(I) was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control. The cause of the war was the infiltration of Pakistani soldiers and Kashmiri militants into positions on the Indian side of the Line of Control (LOC),[8] which serves as the de facto border between the two states. 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 involvement of Pakistani paramilitary forces,[9][10][11] led by General Ashraf Rashid.[12] The Indian Army,
References: * LOC: Kargil (2003), a Hindi movie which depicts many incidents from the war was one of the longest in Indian movie history, running for more than four hours.[127] * Lakshya (2004), another Hindi movie portraying a fictionalised account of the conflict