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Kargil War Part of the Kashmir conflict and the India–Pakistan conflict Indian soldiers after capturing a hill from Pakistani forces during the Kargil War Date 3 May – 26 July 1999 (2 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) Location Kargil district, Jammu and Kashmir (now Ladakh), India Result Indian victory India regains possession of Kargil Territorial changes Status quo ante bellum Belligerents ...
Date Description Remarks Operation Meghdoot: 13 April 1984 India successfully occupied all of the Siachen Glacier. India received intelligence that Pakistan was planning to occupy the Siachen glacier [5] and executed an operation to deny the territory. This sparked a confrontation which has continued ever since. The Kargil War: May–July 1999
The Battle of Tiger Hill encompasses the battles fought in and around the peak of Tiger Hill between the Indian Army and Pakistan from the final week of May till second week of June 1999, during the Kargil War. The battle, with the concomitant battle for the adjoining peak of Tololing, culminated in Indian forces capturing Tiger Hill (Point ...
The Government of India responded with Operation Vijay, a mobilization of 200,000 Indian troops. The war came to an official end on July 26, 1999, with the eviction of Pakistan Army troops from their occupied positions, thus marking it as Kargil Vijay Diwas. 527 soldiers from the Indian Armed Forces lost their lives during the war. [9]
Operation Safed Sagar (Hindi: ऑपरेशन सफेद सागर, lit."Operation White Ocean") was the code name assigned to the Indian Air Force's role in acting jointly with the Indian Army during the 1999 Kargil war that was aimed at flushing out regular and irregular troops of the Pakistani Army from vacated Indian Positions in the Kargil sector along the Line of Control. [1]
The Kargil War order of battle , is a deposition and systematic combatant structure of the Indian Army troops and the unified Pakistan Armed Forces combat commands, active in the Kargil region in 1999, during the Kargil War. The Indian Army orbat is based on the publications provided by the Indian military authors, news media and official sources.
General Musharraf is widely believed to be a strategic mastermind and brain behind the Kargil war. On 11 March 2001, the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called upon both India and Pakistan to retain the spirit of the Lahore Declaration , saying that it would require restraint, wisdom, and constructive steps from both sides. [ 3 ]
The Battle of point 5140 was fought on 20 June 1999 and was major military offensive carried out by the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles regiment as a part of the Operation Vijay (Kargil War). The Indian forces under Lt Col. Yogesh Kumar Joshi were able to capture the point.