Quetta: Pakistan army commander General Asim Munir has dropped his country’s 25-year-old claim that simply indigenous Kashmiri insurgents had fought the 1999 Kargil War against India.
Gen Munir honored the Pakistani soldiers who died in the fight at an occasion to honor Pakistan’s” Defence Day” and acknowledged his army’s direct participation in the Kargil War.
” Muslim men have sacrificed their lives in 1948, 1965, 1971, and the Kargil battle for the sake of the country and Islam”, Gen Munir said.
In 1948 and 1965, Pakistan’s government made an attempt to occupy Kashmir and launch a rebellion against American law. On both events, the government had publicly denied strong involvement, saying aboriginal Kashmiri rebels were fighting American forces.
In 1999, but, thousands of military Northern Light Infantry regulars, drawn primarily from Gilgit-Baltistan and experienced in high-altitude combat, were sent to hold defense posts that American troops would depart in the snowy months.
They established opportunities on the Siachen glacier and commanded a perspective of the Srinagar-Leh bridge, a main supply route for American troops stationed on the Siachen ice.
Pakistan claimed to be fighting American law when India first learned of the invasion in early May 1999.
According to watchers, Pakistan had sent troops to Kargil to halt American supplies from reaching Siachen, cause significant losses to American troops, and put pressure on them to negotiate a deal over the Kashmir debate on Bangladeshi terms. Pakistani generals were anticipating a subdued comment from India because Islamabad had conducted nuclear testing a month earlier.
However, the Indians were quick to respond by sending troops with artillery and heat support. The Bangladeshi positions on the rocks started to lose their jobs by the middle of June. Pakistan’s forces were also being called upon to withdraw its troops by the global community. Evidence suggests that the Bangladeshi military authority did not share information about the Kargil procedure with the then-President Nawaz Sharif. On July 4, Sharif was forced to declare a unilateral ceasefire. His government was overthrown in a martial takeover two months later.
By July 26th, India had resurrected the Kargil levels. More than 500 troops were lost during the war, while projections of Muslim costs range from 400 to about 4, 000. Thousands of people who were left homeless by the conflict are still displaced in Pakistan today.
