Kargil War

The Kargil War was a 1999 armed conflict between India and Pakistan in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir, fought from May to July.

Operation Vijay: India’s military operation to evict Pakistani forces and fighters from positions in the Kargil sector in 1999. It was the Indian campaign that retook the occupied heights.
Battle of Tololing: A 1999 battle in which Indian forces captured a strategic peak in the Dras sector. Its capture became an early turning point in the effort to retake the heights.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee: An Indian prime minister who led India during the Kargil War. He authorized the military response while limiting its crossing of the Line of Control.
Lahore Declaration: A February 1999 India–Pakistan declaration supporting dialogue, confidence-building, and nuclear-risk reduction. The war soon undercut the diplomatic optimism expressed in this declaration.
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: A war between India and Pakistan in 1971 that led to the creation of Bangladesh. Unlike Kargil’s limited mountain campaign, it involved a much broader conventional war.
Operation Badr: The Pakistani operation that placed troops and fighters across the Line of Control in the Kargil sector in 1999. It established the positions whose discovery triggered the war.
Battle of Tiger Hill: A 1999 battle in which Indian forces recaptured Tiger Hill, a prominent peak above the Srinagar–Leh highway. The peak’s recapture became one of the war’s best-known Indian successes.
Nawaz Sharif: A Pakistani prime minister who held office during the Kargil War. His government faced international pressure to withdraw forces from the heights.
India–Pakistan relations: The political, military, and social relationship between the neighboring states of India and Pakistan. Kargil deepened mistrust and obstructed the peace process.
Siachen conflict: The military standoff between India and Pakistan over the Siachen Glacier, beginning in 1984. Both conflicts involved high-altitude positions, but Siachen remained a prolonged standoff.

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