Kargil

Ladakh

Imran Khan strides into a Pakistan hospital to meet Pakistani troops injured in Kargil war with India in 1999.

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Shanaya Kapoor at a party in the year 2007, well before her 2020 success with Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl. Also seen are Nitu and Rishi Kapoor. Shanaya Kapoor was born on 3 November 1999 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee : "We have no plan to cross the Line of Control, Pakistan Army is retreating.

Ladakh·music

The Kargil War inspires Poet and singer Madan Prasad Sinha to write his poetry of nationalism and pride. He speaks of the wars with Pakistan of 1962, 1971 and then 1999. His audio cassette is about to be released.

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Cricketer Kapil Dev and another cricketer (Ajay Jadeja?) visit to meet with Indian Army troops and injured personnel in a white Ambassador car.

Ladakh·aerial · village

Karkitchoo Village with Apricot blossoms at their peak, as seen from the air around Kargil, Ladakh, as seen aerially, from the air, in this aerial view of the Suru river passing through, a major tributary of the Indus river.

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Press Information Bureau (PIB) of Govt of India : Announcement from Shastri Bhawan in 1999 during and following Kargil War with Pakistan, on terrorists and terrorism in Kashmir, along the Line of Control.

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George Fernandes and Indian Army officers pay respects to fallen Indian Army soldiers at Palam airport, during Kargil War circa 1999, to the sounding of bugles and trumpets, in respect to the fallen heroes. He speaks of how Lt.

Ladakh·aerial · festival

Vast moonland landscape on earth: Lamayuru Monastery hillside from the air near Kargil in Ladakh Not a sea urchin, not the surface of the moon, but a Ladakh landscape from Lamayuru Yes, it is not a moon surface landscape but a beautiful aer…

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Srinagar and Kashmir in 1999, in a tense situation around the time of the Kargil War, with shuttered shops and empty streets, and the exception of the odd protest, with protestors being rounded up into BSF trucks, and the Border Security Fo…

Ladakh·flowers · river

Akchamal Village around Kargil, in aerial view of Ladakh in the stunning Apricot blossom season

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Shia Muslims in Kargil lead rally after the death of Qasem Soleimani in a US airstrike in Iraq. Protesters march with a banner sporting Qasem Soleimani's photographs.

Ladakh·aerial · flowers

Karkitchoo Village with hillsides blooming gloriously with Apricot blossom as seen from the air, in Kargil, Ladakh, as seen aerially, in this aerial view.

Ladakh·politics

Sonia Gandhi's speech on Kargil Tax in Parliament 2003, propaganda film of Congress Party. George Fernandes and Atal Behari Vajpayee with L K Advani and a BJP flag featured in this clear Congress campaign video which brings up Godhra and th…

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Kapil Sibal, Narendra Modi and Sitaram Yechury speak on Kargil conflict. This is approx. 1999 footage from after the time that the Kargil War ended... Kargil has become issue of Lok Sabha elections this year.

Ladakh·politics

Sonia Gandhi says that the Kargil troubles were a cause of ineffectiveness of the BJP government that allowed the enemy to take over Indian territory and caused many soldiers to be killed.

Ladakh·hills · festival

Members of the Brokpa community perform traditional songs and dances during the annual Apricot Blossom Festival, locally known as Chuli Mendok, in the Aryan Valley of Ladakh.

Ladakh·farmland

A rare glimpse into the daily routines of the Indian Army when in the field in a border station. Army personnel shaving, polishing shoes and some tying their turbans at the army camp in Kargil.

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee speaks on Kargil and Pakistan's political condition. He says unless Pakistani forces leave Kargil, no discussions on any matter can take place.