July26 th 1999, the day the Kargil conflict was inflicted on India by a frustrated Pakistan ended once again with a victory for India ,
This day is celebrated as
Vijay Diwas in India, when homage is paid and gratitude offered to thousands of
our brave soldiers,
more than 500 had perished
some killed and maimed inhumanly by an army which had no sense of moral right
or wrong .
After losing wars in 1947, 1965 and 1971 a
section of Pakistan specially in its Army and the ISI had always nursed hatred
and frustration at not achieving its ends of taking over Kashmir valley and also
to take revenge for its losing all the conventional wars it had inflicted on India,
on all occasions in the past the country had been beat soundly but never learnt
its lesson, it continued its low key support of cross border terrorism and
prepared itself with nuclear arsenal in an arms race.
It was 1999 when PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee
made his historic bus visit to Lahore and met his Pakistani counterpart Nawas
Shariff and both parted amicably.
The two countries looked
like they were on the anvil of a period of friendship,around the same time
unknown to India regular Pakistani army forces were quietly occupying the icy
heights of Kargil , a Himalayan hilly border overlooking the NH 1 from Srinagar
to Leh strategically important for India as the only access to the Siachen
glacier and to Leh ,
the tall and steep peaks
more than 15000 to 18000 feet above sea
level were generally loosely protected as both sides found it difficult to
occupy those heights ,but Pakistani army plotted to quietly take over the
heights and cut off India’s lifeline ,
By the time Indian army realized
the enormity of the infiltration it had suffered causalities,its initial
scouting army of five were murdered and maimed and it was easy for the Pakistanis
to fire from those heights ,to recapture the peaks India would suffer a lot of casualties
and logistics was also very difficult because of the terrain but in two months
Indian army had cleared every single peak,
The enemy was chased away and international
pressure did the rest.
Once again Pakistan for
all its wily acts lost the battle and we all remember this day as the Vijay divas.
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