“26 july Kargil Vijay Diwas”
Kargil Vijay Diwas is on 26th of July. On this date in 1999 India effectively took command of the high outposts.
Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated on 26 July every year in honour of the Kargil War’s Heroes. This day is celebrated in the Kargil sector and the national capital New Delhi, where the Prime Minister of India pays homage to the soldiers at Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate every year. Functions are also organized all over the country to commemorate the contributions of the armed forces.
In an attempt to defuse the situation, both countries signed the lohare Declaration in February 1999, promising to provide a peaceful and bilateral solution to the Kashmir conflict.
During the winter of 1998–1999, some elements of the Pakistani Armed Forces were covertly training and sending Pakistani troops and paramilitary forces, into territory on the Indian side of the line of control (LOC). The infiltration was code named “Operation Badri”.
aim of the Pakistani incursion was to sever the link between Kashmir and Ladhak and cause Indian forces to withdraw from the Siachen Glacier, thus forcing India to negotiate a settlement of the broader Kashmir dispute. Pakistan also believed that any tension in the region would internationalise the Kashmir issue, helping it to secure a speedy resolution. Yet another goal may have been to boost the morale of the decade-long rebellion in Indian State of Kashmir by taking a proactive role.
Initially, with little knowledge of the nature or extent of the infiltration, the Indian troops in the area assumed that the infiltrators were jihadis and declared that they would evict them within a few days. Subsequent discovery of infiltration elsewhere along the LOC, along with the difference in tactics employed by the infiltrators, caused the Indian army to realise that the plan of attack was on a much bigger scale. The total area seized by the ingress is generally accepted to between 130 km– 200 km.
The Government of India responded with Operation Vijay, a mobilization of 200,000 Indian troops. The war came to an official end on July 26, 1999, thus marking it as Kargil Vijay Diwas.
527 soldiers from Indian Armed Forces lost their lives during the war.
The Kargil war was battled for over 60 days and finished on 26 July 1999, when the Pakistani armed force exploited the softening snow and – deceiving the two-sided comprehension of both the countries that the post would stay unattended throughout the colder time of year season – took order of the great stations of India.
The Pakistani armed force denied association in the conflict, asserting that it was brought about by autonomous Kashmiri renegade powers, anyway records abandoned by setbacks and later proclamations by Pakistan’s Prime Minister and Chief of Army Staff showed contribution of Pakistani paramilitary powers, driven by General Ashraf Rashid.
The Kargil war brought about death toll on both the sides and was finished when India recovered power over the post and shot out the Pakistani Army out of the territory.
