KARGIL CONFLICT

Indians  made  a propaganda that its jets were shot down in Indian  territory  altough  the  wreckage of  the  jets  were  found 12 km  inside Pakistani territory. The pilot of the Mig-27 Flt Lt. K Nachiketa was captured alive by Pakistani soldiers while the pilot of Mig-21 Sqn Ldr. Ajay Ahuja was killed. It was believed that he shot himself. After the downing of the Indian Migs the Indian media made propagandas the Pakistan Army could not shoot any Indian aircrafts and the IAF is continuing their activities. The Pakistani defence spokes man Brig. Rashid Qureshi said that after the Indian planes had been shot down they did not violate the Pak airspace and continued to patrol inside Indian territory at a very high altitude. 

A few days later, when FIt Lt. Nachiketa was released as a unilateral gesture of goodwill by Pakistan, on the order of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, no one, not even the Defence  Attache turned up to receive their own pilot. The reason they did not want to be publicly seen receiving their prisoner pilot back. The Foreign Office had taken precautions to associate the ICRC with the wellbeing of the Indian pilot. They examined him medically and found him fit, in which condition they took custody of his person and transported him to the border. Squadron Leader Ahuja's body was returned with full military honours by the Pakistan Army, that has always stuck by the traditions of the   battle  field.  As   Ahuja's body was handed  over  to India,  even  before any post-mortem   examination it raised alarm that Ahuja may have shot dead after he had parachuted safely to the ground. India had maintained that  the   Ahuja   had "ejected after his MiG 21 was hit by a surface to air missile fired upon from across the LoC."  Later India maintained that according to the post-mortem report Ahuja was shot twice-once through the ear and again in the chest. India launched strong protest with Pakistan over the 'brutal shooting' of Sqn. Ldr. Ahuja by his Pakistani captors. This was another attempt to malign Pakistan in the eyes of the world. Knowing fully well that Ahuja fighter plane was shot down when it was engaged in rocketing, artillery firing and automatic firing. In such a combat situation some bullets hitting Ahuja can not be ruled out.

We have fought a great war in the mountains of kashmir, but unfortunately, our then coward prime minister betrayed the nation and we had to retreat, and then, india has used its full propaganda machine to try to come out of a victory after such a humilation at the hands of few hundred mujahideens.
Some facts are:
1.Total number of Mujahideen, at any stage did not exceed approx: 1000.
2. They captured one of the most difficult terrain and in intense cold enviornment.
3. They completely evaded the indian intelligence machine and the (made in india)satellites pictures.
4. It was a total surprise to indians when sheperds brought the news of invasion to indian military machine, which took some days to realize its importance.
5. Indian chief of staff did not even cancelled his foreign visit.
6. The first search party of 60 indian soldiers was completely annihilated and none of them returned.
7. The second search party of 259 indian soldiers was either annihalited or injured.
8. The first camberra reconisance mission ended up in a damaged camberra plane, which did land in srinagar and brought to indians the actual scale of invasion.
9. Two indian planes were downed including a mig 21 and mig 27.
10. An indian helicopter was downed.
11. Airforce totallly stopped all its operations and so did the military helicopters.
12. It took long time for the indian airforce to come back again, but only with mirage 2000 planes dropping bombs from high altitude...and also using laser guided bombs.
13. A barrage of artillery pounding continued for the next 6 weeks, and in the end, even bofor guns were employed, in order to score, as there did not seems to be any change in Mujahideen positions.
14. There was a huge loss to indian military . there was a shortage of coffins. About 1700 indian soldiers died and more than the same number injured.
15. About 50 bofors bombs were used per mujahideen amounting to US$50000 per person, apart from the various other ammunition used extensively including artillery shells, rockets from ground launchers and air and infantry attacks.
16. After all this efforts for nearly 2 months, it took Clinton to come to india´s rescue, and pakistan had to retreat with 370 losses in life.

 

Heroes of Kargil War 
   Capt. Sher Khan's gallantry was praised by the Indian Army