KARGIL WAR

3rd May 1999 – 26th July 1999

SALUTE TO ALL THE SOILDERS
WHO FOUGHT TILL THEIR LAST BREATH
FOR OUR NATION.

26TH JULY
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INDIAN ARMY WON THE WAR

DURATION OF CONFLICT: 11 WEEKS

SOILDERS LOST
527*
 HISTORY OF KARGIL WAR

The aim of the Pakistani The subsequent discovery

incursion was to sever the of infiltration elsewhere
This inititaive was taken by
Our neighbouring country link between Kashmir and along the LOC, along with
Kargil is a small district in the Pakistan Armed Forces The Government of India
Pakistan unofficially Ladakh and cause Indian the difference in tactics
Ladakh located on the led by General Ashraf responded with Operation
occupied the part by forces to withdraw from employed by the
mountain tops(Line Of Rashid.The infiltration was Vijay, a mobilization of
sending paramilitary forces the Siachen Glacier, thus infiltrators, caused the
Control). code named "Operation 200,000 Indian troops.
to capture this part. forcing India to negotiate a Indian army to realize that
Badri".
settlement of the broader the plan of attack was on a
Kashmir dispute. much bigger scale.
 EVENTS AT KARGIL WAR
India discovers • The Indian Air Force launched Operation Safed Sagar in support of the
infiltration and mobilisation of Indian land forces on 26 May.
mobilises

• The Indian Navy also prepared to blockade the Pakistani ports (primarily
Naval action the Karachi port) to cut off supply routes under Operation Talwar.

• The Indian Army's first priority was to recapture peaks that were in the
India attacks Pakistan immediate vicinity of NH 1. This resulted in Indian troops first targeting the
Tiger Hill and Tololing complex in Dras, which dominated the Srinagar-Leh
Occupied positions route.
 INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

• Clinton rebuked Sharif, however, • The Pakistani establishment was

• As the Indian counter-attacks and asked him to use his compelled to negotiate a face
picked up momentum, Pakistani contacts to rein in the militants saving withdrawal from the
prime minister Nawaz Sharif and withdraw Pakistani soldiers residual areas on the Indian side
flew to meet US President Bill from Indian territory. of the LoC, thereby restoring the
Clinton on 4 July to obtain sanctity of the LoC, as was
support from the United States. established in July 1972 as per
the Simla Agreement.

G8 nations supported India Other organisations like the

The European Union also
and condemned the ASEAN Regional Forum too
opposed Pakistan's
Pakistani violation of the supported India's stand on
violation of the LOC. the inviolability of the LOC.
LOC at the Cologne summit.
KARGIL WAR VIDEOS
 POLITICAL SITUATION
• The whole conduct of Atal Bihari Vajpayee's politics during the Kargil war was guided by the principle of extreme restraint. Only a year earlier, had he

conducted the nuclear tests and declared India a nuclear-armed power, provoking Pakistan to follow suit.

• USA and other super power countries imposed sanctions on India which led an economic problem around the country

• Atal Bihari Vajpayee went to the polls as a war-winner . Within a few weeks, his caretaker government unveiled a draft nuclear doctrine by which India

declared that it won't attack a non-nuclear power, and won't be the first to use nuclear weapons in war against a nuclear power

• In Pakistan, the coin of democracy flipped. The country had a democratic government under Pakistan Muslim League's Nawaz Sharif when the Kargil war

started, but as the operations progressed, it appeared that the political leadership was distancing itself from owning up the war.

• As operations ended in an Indian victory, the blame was put squarely on Pakistan's military leadership, particularly on Musharraf, a commando-general.

The undoing of Sharif began there. His blame game is said to have led to a general fall in the morale of Pakistani Army troops and rising anger among the

officer class.
 INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
• The international community considered the violation of the line of control an aggression on behalf of Pakistan & started
criticizing Pakistan and asking it to withdraw its troops from Kargil.
• Russia and Israel, the already friends of India in the international politics, backed up India openly and throughout the
conflict
• Joschka Fischer, the President of Ministerial Council of EU Foreign Ministers made public the Kashmir conclusions. In these
conclusions the escalation at the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir was considered the result of the infiltration of a
large number of armed personnel across the line of control into the Indian held Kargil sector
• China which has been very close friend and ally to Pakistan against India in the past, too, in Kargil episode, could not
provide full support to Pakistan. When General Musharraf visited China in the last week of May, the Chinese leadership
made it clear to him that locking horns with India was no sane decision and ultimately Pakistan will have to call back its
troops
• Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif requested for a meeting with the US Preside Bill Clinton. Nawaz Sharif met with Clinton at the
White house on July 4, 1999, and promised to end the Kargil operation. In their joint statement, the two leaders agreed
that it was “vital for peace of South Asia that the line of control...be respected by both parties”.
 CONSEQUENSES

The kargil war had several consequences. It strained

the relationship between India and Pakistan, resulted
in loss of lives and resources, and highlighted the
need foe better intelligence and communication
systems . It also led to increased focus on the
modernization of the Indian Armed Forces.
 LESSONS
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GALLANTRY AWARDS
Kargil War Memorial, India
The Kargil War memorial, built by the Indian Army, is
located in Dras, in the foothills of the Tololing Hill. The
memorial, located about 5 km from the city centre
across the Tiger Hill, commemorates the martyrs of the
Kargil War. A poem "Pushp Kii Abhilasha"(Wish of a
Flower) by Makhanlal Chaturvedi, a renowned 20th
century neo-romantic Hindi poet, is inscribed on the
gateway of the memorial greets visitors. The names of
the soldiers who lost their lives in the War are inscribed
on the Memorial Wall and can be read by visitors. A
museum attached to the Kargil War Memorial, which
was established to celebrate the victory of Operation
Vijay, houses pictures of Indian soldiers, archives of
important war documents and recordings, Pakistani
war equipments and gear, and official emblems of the
Army from the Kargil war.
A giant national flag, weighing 15 kg was hoisted at the
Kargil war memorial on Kargil Vijay Dibas to
commemorate the 13th anniversary of India's victory in
the war.
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 SOLDIER I AM BORN ,I WILL DIE,
2 STARS ON MY SHOULDER ARE BETTER THEN MILLIONS IN THE SKY
IF I DIE IN THE BATTLE ZONE , BOX ME UP AND SEND ME HOME ,
TELL MY MOMMA DID MY BEST , PIN THE MEDALS TO MY CHEST,
TELL EVERYONE NOT TO CRY, COZ AM A SOLDIER.
……AND SOLDIER I WILL DIE……

WHEN YOU GO HOME ,TELL EVERYONE THAT

“FOR YOUR TODAY THEY GIVEN THEIR TOMORROW”
THANK
YOU