Kargil War | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-16

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Kargil War


00:01:46 1 Location
00:04:19 2 Background
00:07:50 3 War progress
00:07:59 3.1 Conflict events
00:08:44 3.2 Occupation by Pakistan
00:09:45 3.3 India discovers infiltration and mobilises
00:11:55 3.3.1 Naval action
00:12:36 3.4 India attacks Pakistani positions
00:19:07 3.5 Withdrawal and final battles
00:20:37 4 World opinion
00:23:36 5 Gallantry awards
00:23:46 5.1 India
00:25:05 5.2 Pakistan
00:25:32 6 Impact and influence of media
00:28:07 7 WMDs and the nuclear factor
00:31:35 8 Aftermath
00:31:44 8.1 India
00:34:35 8.2 Kargil Review Committee
00:36:09 8.3 Pakistan
00:43:17 9 Casualties
00:44:51 10 Kargil War Memorial, India
00:46:01 11 Popular culture
00:50:03 12 Notes
00:50:20 13 Footnotes
00:50:29 14 See also



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The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict,[note (I)] was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LOC). In India, the conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay (Hindi: विजय, literally "Victory") which was the name of the Indian operation to clear the Kargil sector.The cause of the war was the infiltration of Pakistani soldiers disguised as Kashmiri militants into positions on the Indian side of the LOC, which serves as the de facto border between the two states. During the initial stages of the war, Pakistan blamed the fighting entirely on independent Kashmiri insurgents, but documents left behind by casualties and later statements by Pakistan's Prime Minister and Chief of Army Staff showed involvement of Pakistani paramilitary forces, led by General Ashraf Rashid. The Indian Army, later supported by the Indian Air Force, recaptured a majority of the positions on the Indian side of the LOC infiltrated by the Pakistani troops and militants. Facing international diplomatic opposition, the Pakistani forces withdrew from the remaining Indian positions along the LOC.
The war is one of the most recent examples of high-altitude warfare in mountainous terrain, which posed significant logistical problems for the combating sides. It is also one of the very few instances of direct, conventional warfare between nuclear states (i.e., those possessing nuclear weapons). India had conducted its first successful test in 1974; Pakistan, which had been developing its nuclear capability in secret since around the same time, conducted its first known tests in 1998, just two weeks after a second series of tests by India.