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The Line of Control with Pakistan-administered Kashmir is roughly 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) to the north of Kargil. A key height called Peak 13620, which overlooks the Kargil town and the Srinagar–Leh Highway , remained in Pakistani control at the end of the First Kashmir War.
KARGIL CONFLICT, THE In late April 1999, Indian soldiers patrolling along the Kashmir Line of Control (LOC) near the Indian town of Kargil were ambushed by unseen assailants who had occupied secret positions high atop frozen mountain peaks along the Great Himalayan Range. After several frantic weeks of confusion, Indian military and intelligence officers realized the intruders were not Kashmiri militants, as they initially had assumed, but in fact were well-trained troops from Pakistan's ...
Aug 9, 2019 · The Line of Control, thus drawn, gave Pakistan control over Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, which Pakistan has since declared the Northern Areas and rules directly. Rest of the Jammu and Kashmir minus Aksai Chin is situated on the Indian side of Line of Control. The Line of Control changed further in 1984 to thwart Pakistan's ...
Jul 26, 2019 · The fighting left hundreds of casualties on both sides of the Line of Control that divides Kashmir The war began soon after Zainab Bibi was married in the spring of 1999. "We were at home and it ...
3 days ago · A quarter of a century has elapsed since May-July 1999, when India and Pakistan fought a 74-day mini-war in the Kargil sector of the Line of Control (LoC) — the de facto border between the two countries. The so-called Kargil conflict took the lives of more than 500 soldiers from each side and marked the culmination of a geopolitically-charged ...
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.
Jul 24, 2019 · When the U.S. determined that Pakistan had deliberately violated the Line of Control near Kargil, Clinton did not hesitate to blame Pakistan for risking a broader war. For the first time, an ...
