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00:00How many people know what Kargil really is and why the war started in 1999?
00:13Kargil is a mountainous area located in Kashmir.
00:17But in 2019, India made Ladakh a separate administrative unit.
00:23Let's go back in time.
00:25This is May 1999.
00:29When the locals of Kargil reported that the Indian army was hiding in Kargil.
00:35And as soon as they saw this, the tension turned into a war.
00:40200,000 soldiers were sent from India.
00:43And it was named Operation Vijay.
00:46Because this path was extremely difficult and difficult,
00:49only 20,000 soldiers of India were able to reach the actual destination.
00:54Pakistan's goal was to block India's access to Kargil.
00:59Because this was the only way to reach Siachen.
01:03And this is how India had to say goodbye to Siachen.
01:06Siachen is actually the world's highest battlefield.
01:10And the world's second largest glacier.
01:13And in 1984, India had also assigned its troops here.
01:18The Kargil dispute lasted for about three months.
01:22Because of the high mountains in the early days, Pakistan benefited a lot.
01:27Pakistan also shot down two Indian fighter jets.
01:31And their pilots were also captured.
01:35And the third aircraft, which became the target, killed all four Indian soldiers.
01:39After that, the Indian army used cannons and martyred Pakistan's brave soldiers.
01:46India's other cunningness was that it also released the conversation between Parvez Musharraf and Chief of General Staff Aziz Khan.
01:55On this, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced the withdrawal of the army from Kargil at the meeting with US President Bill Clinton.
02:03According to many analysts, more soldiers were killed in India's Kargil war than in the 1965 war.
02:11If you look at the situation before the Kargil war, it seemed that the situation between Pakistan and India would get much better.
02:19Because Wajib Bhai had visited Pakistan.
02:22And in a speech in front of the Minar-e-Pakistan, he announced that India openly accepts Pakistan.
02:29At that time, it seemed that both countries would end their tensions.
02:34And both Prime Ministers had also signed the Lahore Declaration on Peace.
02:40But maybe time needed something else.
02:43Kargil was basically a limited war.
02:52Very limited in the sense that it was fought on the peaks of mountains at an altitude of 16,000 feet.
02:59And this was a limited war. It was more of a guerrilla operation in the mountains.
03:06So it was not that there was a war in the whole country.
03:11It was not known at all in Pakistan.
03:13In the beginning, India beat them a lot because it was Pakistan's strategic advantage.
03:21At that time, the Indians kept quiet.
03:24When they used their weapons, air power, and artillery to push us back.
03:32At that time, they turned it into a complete election war.
03:36Because there were going to be elections at that time.
03:38And Wajib Bhai's government was there.
03:40And they broadcast it with a lot of excitement.
03:50So it was a war for India.
03:52Still, it was a limited operation for us.
03:54We felt that the Mujahideen were largely involved.