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KARGIL : 20 YEARS OF TRIUMPHANT .

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शहीदों की चिताओं पर लगेंगे हर बरस मेले   वतन पर मर मिटने वालो का बस यही निशाँ  होगा  It was the chilling season began, the sub-zero temperature at the end of 1998, when Indian troops decided to vacate their post on the ridges of Kargil, Mushkoh, Dras, Batalik, Kaksar as per the bilateral agreement between INDIAN AND PAKISTAN in "Shimla accord" of 1972. But the other side of the Army across the LOC had been planning something nefarious when in early 1998 Gen. Parvez Musharaf of the pakistan Army chief had made a couple of several visits to the northern area of LOC. When the temperature started rising, the local Indian shepherd had informed the Indian Army about some infiltrators during the month of May, then a patrol party had been launched of troops leading Capt. Saurabh Kalia, unfortunately their patroling unit were captured by Pak soldiers where bodies of troops returned mutilated give ample sign of gross violation of Geneva convention. Capt.