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The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LoC).
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Kargil War, conflict in May–July 1999 between Pakistan and India in Kargil, a sector of the disputed Kashmir region located along the line of control that demarcates the Pakistan- and India-administered portions of Kashmir. The sector has often been the site of border skirmishes between the two.
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Kargil: The forgotten victims of the world's highest war. 25 July 2019. By M Ilyas Khan,BBC News, Islamabad. Getty Images. The fighting left hundreds of casualties on both sides of the Line of...
Apr 21, 2024 · Kargil, part of the western Ladakh region in the Zaskar Range of the Himalayas. It abuts the line of control between the portions of Kashmir administered by India and Pakistan and has been the site of border conflicts between the two countries. It was the site of the deadly Kargil War in 1999.
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With a Hindu nationalist government in place, the Indian army celebrated in style, and held commemorative treks to the mountain tops where the fiercest fighting had taken place. On Thursday, Indian army chief General Bipin Rawat was in Kargil, where he warned Pakistan not to repeat a similar incursion “anytime, anywhere”. “They [Pakistan] did not a...
Drass, nearly 150km east of Kashmir’s main city, Srinagar, is separated from the Kashmir valley by the Himalayas. The people here are of Central Asian ancestry, speak in the regional languages of Balti and Dardic and live in much the same way as their forefathers did. Mohammad Hussain had to flee with his family during the war and returned to find ...
Meanwhile, India-administered Kashmir has been in turmoil for the last three decades since an armed rebellion against the Indian rule erupted in the early 1990s. In recent years, the almost daily confrontations between stone-throwing protesters and armed rebels on the one side, and the Indian security forces on the other has only worsened. Security...
It took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and along the Line of Control. The cause of the war was a series of events that worsened the already existing Indo-Pakistani relations. India had violated agreements concerning the Kashmir conflict before.
The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, (I) signifies an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir.
