THE FACTS OF KARGIL CONFLICT 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 anystage did not exceed approx: 1000. 2. They captured one of the most difficult terrain and in intense cold enviornment. 3. They completely evaded the indianintelligence machine and the (made inindia)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 numberinjured. 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.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 06:11:31 +0000
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