10% polling J&K till noon, no violence Nov 17, 2008
The highest voter turnout was in Kargil constituency, where around 17 per cent of registered voters cast their ballot ... Voting started at 8000 Hrs IST at all 1,038 polling stations in Bandipora, Poonch, Leh and Kargil amid tight security in view of possible attempts by terrorists to disrupt the polls. (IBNLive.com)
What? Mediation? Never! Nov 14, 2008
This audience grew restive after Pakistan responded to Pokhran and alarmed after it followed through with Kargil even as Vajpayee was hugging Nawaz Sharif and reciting poetry in Lahore ... Reidel was in the Blair House throughout the meeting that led to Pakistan withdrawing from Kargil as a result of an agreement not between New Delhi and Islamabad but between Washington and Islamabad, not between Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif but between Clinton and Nawaz Sharif who in fact told the American... (Express Buzz)
Why Assam bleeds Nov 13, 2008
Even then, Pakistan made an attempt in Kargil in 1999 to cut off the main arterial road to the Valley. The North-East is in a far more vulnerable strategic and geographic position than the Kashmir Valley. (Sify.com, India)
Obama mulls Clinton as special envoy on Kashmir Nov 8, 2008
All that changed with the Kargil episode, when Washington finally recognized Islamabad as the serial aggressor intent on changing the status quo ... For one, it was Clinton who decreed before agreeing to Pakistan's plea for intervention in the Kargil crisis that the Line of Control in Kashmir will not be redrawn with blood, virtually backing India's position ... In fact, the National Security official who made the pro-India call on the Kargil crisis was Bruce Riedel, a former CIA analyst, who... (India Times, India)
Opinion: Lay off Kashmir Nov 7, 2008
When President Clinton offered to mediate in the Kargil war, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee politely declined. Obviously, Obama had not been adequately briefed on the history of Afghanistan and Pakistan during the Clinton years. (India Times, India)
Rock for Bihar flood relief with Farhan and Company Oct 30, 2008
"We did a Peace Together concert in 1998 after the Pokhran nuclear test, and we wrote a song, Price of Bullet, in response to the jingoism of the Kargil War in 1999. Indian rock has a history of socially relevant music that says and means something . I am glad that Farhan's newfound stardom is giving us a platform in reaching out to more people,'' he says. The concert will also sensitise the audience about the grim picture in Bihar through slides and statistics. Sidhwani says he will try to... (Times of India)
Fighting for issues men ignore Oct 5, 2008
Aquite revolution is underway in the sleepy village of Kargil, Ladakh. In this overwhelmingly male-dominated society, women are stepping out of the home for the first time and seeking the chance to make their voices heard. (India Times, India)
China threat? It's a blessing Sep 19, 2008
The following year, Islamabad started a border war with India in Kargil that quickly escalated, scaring the Chinese into thinking that an all-out conflict might erupt at its southwestern border. Pakistan and India are in fact rival, neighboring nuclear states. (Asia Times Online)
Next steps for Kashmir Sep 4, 2008
The prime candidate being the Jammu division, Kargil and Ladakh ... It needs to be pointed out the 70% Muslim majority districts of Rajouri and Poonch as well as Kargil would also be rewarded under this plan. (Sify.com, India)
'Pakistanis are likely to fish in troubled waters' Aug 22, 2008
"He was the Kargil man, his government was behind the attack on (the Indian) Parliament and so on and so forth, so that we got to remember that there was a considerable reversal (from the earlier moves at rapprochement with New Delhi initiated by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif whom Musharraf deposed). But, not only did he get the peace process restarted, but he also made proposals that were unprecedented for Pakistan, such as finding a solution outside the framework of the UN resolutions.".... (MyNews.in)
Too Early To Celebrate Aug 20, 2008
How will history assess a brash, impatient general who was the architect of the Kargil war in 1999 and saw himself as the 'saviour' of Pakistan ... This obsession has led to short-term external gains such as propping up the Taliban, initiating the Kargil invasion or tacitly supporting the Kabul embassy attacks. (India Times, India)
Mixed legacy Aug 19, 2008
As army chief, Gen Musharraf launched a military adventure in Kargil in 1999, shortly before his military coup. Pakistani soldiers and Kashmiri militants infiltrated Indian territory, before pressure from the United States forced them to withdraw. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Media welcomes resignation Aug 19, 2008
The Hindu said New Delhi "cannot overlook the contribution General Musharraf made towards stabilising and improving the relationship between India and Pakistan - learning perhaps from the Kargil misadventure". "His most lasting contribution may well be the process of India-Pakistan detente, which needs to be taken forward resolutely.". (BBC News -- South Asia)
Musharraf resigns as Pakistani President Aug 19, 2008
The next year, he masterminded a military operation at Kargil, the first Pakistani push into the Indian-held part of Kashmir since the 1971 war. The offensive nearly brought the nuclear neighbours to a new conflict. (Guardian News, Nigeria)
Tarun Vijay: A Tricoloured dream Aug 16, 2008
Kargil proved this, so did Abhinav Bindra and the SMS patriotism we see on this day of our independence. Read one I got at 6 am today 31 states, 1,618 languages, 6,400 castes, 29 major festivals and one country India proud to be an Indian. (India Times, India)
More >> Aug 3, 2008
He received the Sword of Honour from Indian Military Academy in 1990 and fought in the 1999 Kargil war. During his posting in Mhow, he started shooting. (India Times)
Visitor From Pakistan Jul 3, 2008
Also, the story behind Musharraf's sudden turn from supporting Taliban to "war on terror ally": he was afraid that India would persuade US to a joint alliance to crush Pakistan once-and-for-all (though India is not known to have any such ideas--as it showed in 1971 by withdrawing UNILATERALLY from captured Nagar Parkar and Shakargarh salients), especially due to his planning (though execution failed miserably) of 1999 Kargil War. Another detail on Musharraf: in 2000, on an official visit to... (Townhall.com)
China toys with India's border Jun 27, 2008
Should a conflict break out, the PLA's [People's Liberation Army] contingency plans emphasize a "short and swift localized" conflict (confined to the Tawang region, along the lines of the 1999 Kargil conflict) with the following objectives in mind: capture the Tawang tract; give India's military a bloody nose; and deliver a knockout punch that punctures India's ambitions to be China's equal or peer competitor once and for all. Arunachal's chief minister Dorjee Khandu has invited the Dalai Lama... (Asia Times Online)
Marching lawyers hold Pakistan hostage Jun 11, 2008
He has summed up the reasons for the anti-Musharraf move as complicity by Musharraf in the "war on terror"; his handing over of Muslims to the US in exchange for dollars; for orchestrating the massacre at the radical Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad last year; the detention of the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, on accusations he masterminded Pakistan's nuclear proliferation; the misadventure of the Kargil operation in 1999, when Pakistan moved into Indian... (Asia Times Online)
Yes, I was a bit upset with the Director: Divya Dutta Apr 20, 2008
A. Kahani Gudiya Ki, is a film based on a true story of a Muslim woman from Meerut whose husband has to go to the Kargil war after ten days of their marriage. When he does not return even after four years, the girl is married off for the second time and when she is eight months pregnant with her second husband's child, the first husband turns up. (SantaBanta.com)
Tarun Vijay: May democracy prevail Feb 21, 2008
With Allah on the peoples' side, Nawaz Sharif is all set to take revenge against the chief architect of the Kargil war who toppled him in an October 1999 coup just months later. There is a limit to how much a former Prime Minister can be humiliated. (India Times, India)
Foreign viewsInternational perspectives on Pakistan's elections Feb 17, 2008
And it was during Nawaz Sharif's time in power that the Kargil conflict happened. Harish Khare sums up India's mixed emotions and dilemma about Pakistani elections. (BBC News -- South Asia)
58 years on, no memorial to honour martyrs Jan 26, 2008
"Its insulting as well as embarrassing that India is virtually the only country without a dedicated NWM. It is as if the 1947-48 J&K operation, the 1962, 1965 and 1971 wars and the 1999 Kargil conflict do not matter at all," said a senior officer. The latest "conceptual design" for the NWM prepared by the army, in consultations with several experts, basically revolves around a landscape-type memorial around the chhatri (canopy) near India Gate on the Central Vista, with "retaining walls" for... (India Times, India)
A look into Pakistan's political future Jan 4, 2008
That is what history tells us - Pakistan has not fought any wars when a civilian government was in place - accept in the case of Kargil confrontation with India [in 1999] when the army hierarchy acted on its own and didn't take the prime minister into its confidence till the very end. In my view a democratic transition will certainly lead to Pakistan's better relations with India, Afghanistan and Iran. (Asia Times Online)
Preserving the glorious history of Air Force Dec 27, 2007
Placed in the country s one-of-its-kind IAF museum at Palam, the capsule shares space with records that depict the glorious past of the IAF and highlights its achievements including World War II, the wars of 1965 and 1971 with Pakistan, and the Kargil operation in 1999. Said Vice-Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Bhushan Nilkanth Gokhale: In addition to the several events and activities that were organised across the country as part of the celebrations, a number of welfare measures were introduced. (Hindu)
India and China's public courting Dec 20, 2007
Beijing remained neutral during India's military conflict with Pakistan in 1999 and over border intrusions in the Kashmir's Kargil region. Win-win situation. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Intolerant Malaysia, tolerant faith? Nov 28, 2007
Intolerant Malaysia, tolerant faith. -The Right View-Tarun Vijay-Columnists-Opinion-The Times of India. (India Times, India)
Military brass mulls over martyrs' day for armed forces Oct 24, 2007
"Moreover, military martyrs are remembered during days like Vijay Diwas , Kargil Diwas and the like. Different arms and regiments also have their own raising days and battle-honours days. Is there need for a separate martyrs' day?" asked another officer ... This when over 1,100 soldiers were killed in the 1947-48 J&K operations; 3,250 in the 1962 war; 3,264 in the 1965 war; 3,843 in the 1971 war; 1,157 in Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka and 522 in the 1999 Kargil conflict. (India Times, India -- Community News)
BJP accuses Manmohan Singh of 'selective amnesia' Oct 20, 2007
A day after Singh accused the main Opposition party for the "holocaust" in Gujarat, the "fiasco" during the Indo-Pak Agra summit and the Kargil incursion, the BJP reacted angrily, saying that he had been elevated to the office "by accident" and that his politics was marked by "convenience" ... On the PMs reference to the Kargil war, Prasad said, "Every inch of land was reclaimed in Kargil whereas during wars under Congress rule in 1962 and 1965, India lost territory in Jammu and Kashmir and... (India Times, India -- Community News)
The ticking clock and the end of Musharraf! Oct 18, 2007
This was mainly because of our nuclear programme, existence of a military regime who was at the helm of affairs and most importantly, because of the recently failed Kargil misadventure. However, everything seemed to be going pretty fine for Pakistan s military establishment since the policy overtures (regarding the erstwhile support for the Taliban), till Musharraf s last visit to the United States. (Merinews)
Satire at forefront of Pakistan's TV revolution Sep 14, 2007
After seizing power in 1999 the general realised that Pakistanis had been getting their news via satellite from private Indian stations - including, crucially, during the 1998 Kargil war between the two countries. Pakistan had just one channel - the slow, grey state station. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
S Tharoor: Are we afraid of risks? Aug 25, 2007
This is the India that did a deal with the Kandahar hijackers rather than the India that threw out the intruders of Kargil. We have the capacity to be, in any field of national endeavour, both kinds of country. (India Times, India)
The Washington Posts Amar C. Bakshi Aug 22, 2007
America: PostGlobal on washingtonpost. Ahmed Rashid: Bush Didn't Listen. (Harper's Magazine)
Musharraf, a drowning man on a sinking ship: Nawaz Sharif Aug 17, 2007
And this is the man who subverted the whole process, derailed the process and suddenly launched an attack in Kargil, which of course is a very great setback to both countries and setback to the process of normalisation. So I think, a man who is responsible, how can we rely upon such a man. (India Infoline.com)
End this farce in Pakistan Aug 15, 2007
in The Washington Post of 30 June 1999, The New York Times of July 1, 1999 and The Times, London of July 6, 1999 and in several other newspapers when in view of this writer the Kargil adventure of General Musharraf threatened to blow into a possible nuclear war. Add To. (Merinews)
Nations apartHow the India subcontinent has fared since partition Aug 13, 2007
In 1999, fighting between Indian and Pakistani-backed forces in Indian Kashmir led to a new conflict, known as the Kargil conflict, but not full-scale war. In their last confrontation in 2002, India deployed 700,000 troops; Pakistan, 300,000 - three-fourths of their regular forces - either side of the Line of Control in Kashmir and the internationally recognised India-Pakistan border. (BBC News)
Court frees Musharraf critic from jail Aug 4, 2007
The letter criticized Musharraf's support for the U.S.-led war on terror and called for an investigation into the 1999 Kargil conflict, in which Pakistan and India fought a limited war in the disputed region of Kashmir. Musharraf headed the army at the time. (International Herald Tribune)
Nasser: India - Israel Ties Jul 13, 2007
Diplomats of the ruling Congress party like to blame the Israeli shift policy on the former ruling conservative Janata (peoples in Hindi) party and the war with Pakistan in the Kargil district of Kashmir in 1999, when Israel reportedly promptly supplied the Indian army with much needed military equipment, including night vision devices, thus kicking off a growing defense cooperation ever since. . (Zmag.org)
Niaz: Pakistan Summer Jul 6, 2007
As COAS he is bound by his oath to defend the Constitution which he has already violated; His duty is also to defend borders which he has already neglected by launching the Kargil misadventure and after 9/11 he has surrendered state sovereignty to US which calls all the shots including the preparation and scrutiny of electoral rolls by paying one billion rupees for (mis-) preparing them. . (Zmag.org)
Hiro: Nukes & Regime Survival Jun 11, 2007
A year later, fighting between Indian and Pakistani troops in the Kargil region of Indian-administered Kashmir did not escalate into an all-out war because both sides were nuclear-armed, with their leaders seemingly prepared to use their arsenals in extremis. The episode, frightening as it was, reassured Pakistani officials that their country was now secure from being overpowered by India. (Zmag.org)
Podur/Mian: Pakistan Context May 19, 2007
We are in a much better situation that we were in 1999, when Pakistans military started the Kargil war with India. This was the third war between Pakistan and India over Kashmir. (Zmag.org)
The String of Pearls Feb 12, 2007
This happened during the India-Pakistan War of 1971 and was threatened again during the Kargil conflict of 1999. 6 Gwadar, a small fishing village which Pakistan identified as a potential port location in 1964 but lacked the means to develop, is 450 miles west of Karachi. (Ocnus.net)
