Does India Remember Kargil? | The Indian Express

Does India Remember Kargil? | The Indian Express

Written by C. Uday Bhaskar |Updated: July 23, 2019 12:39:35 am

The writer is Director, Society for Policy Studies, New Delhi.

Does India Remember Kargil?

Critical lessons not learnt from the conflict make the country more vulnerable.

Soldiers celebrating victory after the Kargil war. (Agency photo)

July 1999 was a month of both exhilaration and relief for India and the Vajpayee-led government for the manner in which the brief, but potentially destabilising, Kargil warended. Pakistan’s perfidy, led by the wily and audacious army chief at the time, General Pervez Musharraf, of occupying craggy mountain peaks in the high Himalayas and posing a challenge to India’s territorial integrity was foiled by the resolve and raw courage of the Indian military.