Kargil Vijay Diwas: Remembering the Kargil war

Updated On: 26 July, 2019 10:15 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent

The Kargil War was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LOC)

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Indian armed forces officers salute in front of the Kargil War Memorial in honour of the Kargil war in the Drass sector of Ladakh. File pic

On July 26, 2019, India will observe the 20th anniversary of the Kargil War, a war for which it was least prepared in 1999. Here is a lowdown of how Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated.

The Kargil War was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LOC). In India, the conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay which was the name of the Indian operation to clear the Kargil sector.