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During his tenure as the defence minister, the Kargil war over Kashmir broke out between India and Pakistan in 1999. The war began when heavily armed Pakistan-backed intruders dug themselves in at heights of 16,000 feet (4,900 m) – 18,000 feet (5,500 m) on the Indian side of the Line of Control (LOC) along an 80 kilometres (50 mi) stretch ...
Benazir Bhutto, an opposition leader in the parliament and former prime minister, called the Kargil War "Pakistan's greatest blunder". [194] Many ex-officials of the military and the Inter-Services Intelligence (Pakistan's principal intelligence agency ) also believed that "Kargil was a waste of time" and "could not have resulted in any ...
Site of the conflict The report was submitted to the Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on 7 January 2000. Over a hundred senior military, civil service and intelligence officials, politicians, including former prime ministers, diplomats and journalists were interviewed by the committee over a period of five months.
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (3 May 1896 – 6 October 1974) was an Indian academic, independence activist, politician, lawyer, and statesman. [1][2] During his time, Menon contributed to the Indian independence movement and India's foreign relations. He was among the major architects of Indian foreign policy, and acted as Jawaharlal Nehru ...
Battles / wars. Kargil War (POW) Captain Saurabh Kalia (Punjabi pronunciation: [saurabha kālī'ā]; 29 June 1976 – 9 June 1999) was an officer of the Indian Army who was martyred during the Kargil War while being held as a prisoner of war by the Pakistan Army. He and five soldiers in his patrol group were captured by Pakistani troops ...
The Kargil Air War was fought between India and Pakistan during the Kargil War from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere along the line of control. In India, the conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay (Hindi: विजय, lit. 'Victory'), which was the codename of the Indian military operation in ...
Major Jaswant Singh (pronunciation ⓘ; 3 January 1938 – 27 September 2020) [8] [A] was an officer of the Indian Army and an Indian Cabinet Minister.He was one of the founding members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), [9] and was one of India's longest serving parliamentarians, having been a member of the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha almost continuously between 1980 and 2014. [10]
At the time of Kargil war, NDA defence minister Jaswant Singh brought him back as his advisor. According to a Hindustan Times article quoting an article published in Caravan's May 2014 Issue, Rajiv Gandhi, along with Arun Singh and Arun Nehru, was responsible for taking decision on "go ahead" for Operation Blue Star, despite Indira Gandhi's ...