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#RememberingKargil
Barefoot, he scaled a rock wall at 16,000ft in a daring mission

#LestWeForgetIndia🇮🇳 Capt Neikezhakuo Kenguruse, #MahaVirChakra (P) 2 RAJ RIF & his supreme sacrifice #OnThisDay 28 June 1999 at #Tololing

The gallant #IndianBrave was only 25 yrs old. #OpVijay
In 1999, as the #Kargil conflict started, Capt Kenguruse was a junior commander with 2nd Battalion The #RajputanaRifles. For his determination and prowess, he was made the lead commander of the #GhatakPlatoon of his unit.
On 28 June night, Capt. Kenguruse’s platoon was given the responsibility of taking out a strategic machine gun post held by the enemy on a cliff face, the Black Rock. Heavy gun fire from this position had been hindering the battalion’s progress in the sector for days.
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Combat or Peace : We are on our Way "I look for you, even if I cant see you "
The day was 27 May, 1999. The Aircrew Examining Board was in the unit & usual exam time activity was on. We were just getting to know of some action happening in #Kargil
, lack of internet & intranet meant there was only little information of what was happening in other sector. Around mid-morning, my Commanding Officer walked up in the crew room. He declared “There has been an ejection in Kargil sector, Flt Lt Nachiketa has ejected.
We need to launch a SAR [Search and Rescue] ." My flight Commander Sqn Ldr Sachdeva, looked at me and I dashed to tell maintenance guys to prepare the aircraft. Quick refueling, coordinating flight plan, rechecking map etc & we were on course to Kargil within 15 minutes
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We didn't know better then. As we celebrated cricket, Gen @P_Musharraf launched #Pak Army into #Kargil. Dec 18, 1999 Capt Nadeem & L/NK Laikjaan & others were sent on reconnaissance patrols. We gave Pak cricketers a standing ovation, Pak Army firmed up defences on Kargil heights
530 Indian families lost a son, a brother, a husband, a soldier in the #Kargil war. In the months preceding Kargil, #Lahore bus journey was hailed as a game changer that would herald an era of peace. Pak sent one team to Chepauk, another with Assault rifles & Arty guns to Kargil.
We could have been fooled then but now we have access to information even from #Pakistan. The architects of the plan Gen Musharraf, Lt Gen Mohd Aziz Khan (CGS), Lt Gen Mahmud Ahmed (X Corps Cdr) & executed by Maj Gen Javed Hasan, (FCNA) & Brig Nusrat Sial (62 Bde Cdr) #FactsFirst
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539 bravehearts sacrificed their life, thousand got handicapped and severely injured for lifetime to give us a celebration of Victory on glorious day.
The Valour and glory of those Stubborn Patriots Who wrapped Tiranga on themselves are immortal
1/n #VijayDiwas
#KargilVijayDiwas
The soldier posted at the borders protecting the country is martyred for the nation but he doesn’t ask what the nation did for him. He simply breathes his last for the nation and here some naive men stand up and question as to what has India
2/n #KargilVijayDiwas
#VijayDiwas
given them asserting that India has cheated upon them. To them I say, please leave the nation and find a suitable place that you can inhabit in the world which accommodates you as warmly as India does.
We live in a dismal world, a which is fighting itself
3/n #KargilVijayDiwas
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#कारगिल युद्ध...५२ दिवस...भारतमातेचे ५२७ सुपुत्र हुतात्मा..आज त्यांच्या आणि त्यांच्यासारख्या इतरांच्या बलिदानामुळेच आपले स्वातंत्र्य अबाधित आहे. या वीरपुत्रांना शतश: नमन. #जयहिंद #जयहिंदकीसेना @adgpi @indiannavy @IAF_MCC
२१ वर्षांपूर्वी बरोबर आजच्याच दिवशी म्हणजेच २६ जुलै १९९९ रोजी भारताने पाकिस्तानी सैन्याच्या ताब्यात असलेले अखेरचे भारतीय ठाणे पुन्हा काबीज केले आणि #कारगिल युद्धात विजय मिळवला. त्यामुळेच २६ जुलै हा कारगिल #विजय दिवस म्हणून साजरा केला जातो.
सुमारे १६ ते १८ हजार फुटांवर साधारण ६० दिवस हे युद्ध चालले. भारताने या युद्धाला #ऑपरेशनविजय असे सांकेतिक नाव दिले होते. तर पाकिस्तानने यालाच #ऑपरेशनबद्र असे संबोधले.
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PM @narendramodi to interact with the Nation in #MannKiBaat, today

Live from ⏰11 AM

🎥
At #TokyoOlympics, watching Indian sportspersons march carrying Tricolour exhilarated not just me but the entire country…as if the whole country unitedly exhorted her warriors saying, “Vijayi Bhava – emerge victorious!”

- PM @narendramodi
#MannKiBaat

#TeamIndia at #Tokyo2020
These sportspersons have reached where they are after overcoming numerous hurdles in life. Today, they possess strength of your love & support

Come.. let's extend our good wishes to all of them; encourage them

- PM @narendramodi
#MannKiBaat
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This day in 1999, the ceasefire in #Kargil was in its sixth day, to give the Paakis an opportunity to vacate the heights they were still in possession of. But, true to their 'style', the fcukers, instead of vacating, went about happily mining the approaches to those positions.
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They had absolutely no intention of withdrawing despite those being the clear terms of the ceasefire that commenced with effect from 11th July 1999..
Finally, about two weeks later, the Indian Army would once again be able to 'convince' them to agree to its terms in ..
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.. the language they understand best - Danda.
The Brown Panted Ba$tards were thrown out / ran away on the point of the gun.
However, the mines took the life & limb of many an Indian soldier which would have otherwise been saved, had the ..
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#ObituaryOfTheDay
.. from the enemy and turning it on them.
Though severely wounded, he refused to be evacuated so that he does not reduce the numbers available for the fight, by diverting them to take him to safety.
Instead he kept on fighting till the time he could.
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Soon thereafter he succumbed to his injuries, right there on his final battlefield.
This 24 year son of an SBI employee, had done what under normal circumstances, might have been considered impossible.
But circumstances that summer were far from 'normal'.
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It was yet another small step in Indian Army's steady march towards the Line of Control, paved by the blood of yet more young men whom delusional Brown Panted Pakistani Generals had failed to take into account as they fantasized about glory in Kargil & Siachen
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#RememberingKargil
Barefoot, he scaled a rock wall at 16,000ft in a daring mission

#LestWeForgetIndia🇮🇳 Capt Neikezhakuo Kenguruse, #MahaVirChakra (P) 2 RAJ RIF & his supreme sacrifice #OnThisDay 28 June 1999 at #Tololing

The gallant #IndianBrave was only 25 yrs old #OpVijay
In 1999, when the #Kargil conflict started, Capt Kenguruse was a junior commander in the #RajputanaRifles battalion. For his determination and prowess, he was made the lead commander of the #GhatakPlatoon of his battalion.
On 28 June night, Capt. Kenguruse’s platoon was given the responsibility of taking out a strategic machine gun post held by the enemy on a cliff face, the Black Rock. Heavy gun fire from this position had been hindering the battalion’s progress in the sector for days.
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Pakistan's tried & tested template.Don't ask for prosecution of terrorists for past terror attacks.Let's start afresh (till the next terror attack)
India has repeatedly fallen for it
1. IC 814 hijack
2. Parliament Attack
3. J&K Assembly
4. 26/11 Mumbai
5. Ind emb Kabul
Long list
#Pakistan targeted India with impunity because Indian leadership was told they are a nuclear weapon state India cannot respond. A strong pro Pak lobby played the Pak game of dialogue despite terror for peace in the sub continent. Uninterrupted & uninterruptible dialogue tamasha.
So even after 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks India did not hit back, resulting in more terror attacks. ISI tested PM @narendramodi's resolve too. Terror attacks on our consulate in Afghanistan & strikes at Pathankot, Gurdaspur... Uri & Pulwama resulted in #Surgicalstrikes & #Balakot
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معروف پاکستانی ماہر برائے دفاعی و خارجی امور جناب احمد قریشی صاحب پاکستان #اسرائیل دوستی چاہتے ہیں اور انکے خیالات عائشہ گلالئ اور عائشہ احد کے بارے میں کچھ یوں ہیں ImageImage
1 - Pulwama attack: #Israel stands with #India , #BenjaminNetanyahu | ecoti.in/K573Zb (Economic Times FEB 16 2019) | Pakistani Defence Expert Mr Ahmed Quraishi also stands with India & Israel during their testing times ! ( @majid_mehmud @strategichobbit @Syednaa )
2 - India, Israel ink nearly $2bn weapons deal dawn.com/news/1325487 Pakistani Defence Expert Mr Ahmed Quraishi also stands with India & Israel during their testing times ! ( @majid_mehmud @strategichobbit @Syednaa )
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1 - #PMImranKhan said on Thursday had any army chief attacked #Kargil without asking him, he would have sacked him. thenews.com.pk/print/723029-w… ( by Mumtaz Alvi 2 Oct 2020) Mr #PervezMusharraf & Mr Imran Khan further explain ! Reference: |
#ایجادات_نوازشریف
2 - #PMImranKhan said on Thursday had any army chief attacked #Kargil without asking him, he would have sacked him. thenews.com.pk/print/723029-w… ( by Mumtaz Alvi 2 Oct 2020) Mr Imran Khan further explain ! Reference: |

#ایجادات_نوازشریف
1 - #India helping #NawazSharif in 'attempts to weaken army', says PM Imran dawn.com/news/1582671 “ This is a dangerous game Nawaz is playing; #AltafHussain played the same game “ says #PMImranKhan (Dawn 1/2 Oct 2020) Mr Wajahat Saeed Khan explains : |
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Agree #Kargil was what you can call watershed moment for #Pakistan. Nation went through hell to get Nukes (economic exclusion from global system) so we can finally achieve closure on any future war while maintaining relevance for dialogue/negotiations with bigger India 1/3
All was lost in another half cooked & planned #OpGibraltar 2.0. It also exposed why world was right to not let Pakistan get nukes. COAS initiating this large scale operation without informing sitting govt & then stupidly calling from Beijing to see how’s govt is holding up. 2/3
🇮🇳 appeared as responsible state whose nuclear program was always stated as a counterweight to 🇨🇳an requirement to be an aspiring big power.🇵🇰 appeared as a country which will always start trouble if it can get away under umbrella of SEATO/CENTO/Soviet-Afghan conflict or Nuke 3/3
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Nothing in life is 0-1, its always a matter of degree. But 1 question remains unanswered (@VivekKatju ): Why is it that till recently (Dolam?), 90% of the world's elite (broadly defined) believed/supported Pakistan & China's version of their realations/interactions with us?
2/ #Myth of global credibility(on JK)is exposed by #Kargil reality; We were so scared of using aircraft to bomb Kargil heights (on our side of LOC) bcs bombs may fall on other side of LOC or a plane may cross it for a few secs, that we sacrificed 500 lives to scale Ladakh heights
3/risk Contrast this with Bangladesh, where we took risks to achieve Strategic victory. Tying your own hands behind back & sacrificing soldiers, is not national risk taking, killing other side's aggressing Jehadis & soldiers is risk taking(it requires frgn support,funds & planing
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२१ वर्षांपूर्वी, २६ जुलै १९९९ रोजी भारताने पाकिस्तानी सैन्याने बळकावलेले अखेरचे भारतीय ठाणे पुन्हा काबीज केले #कारगिल युद्ध जिंकले. #कारगिल_विजय_दिवस त्याची थोडक्यात माहिती #Thread
@aparanjape @Girbane @yashodhanpanse #म @adgpi @MandarDiwakar @snigdhaman
हिवाळ्यात #कारगिल परिसर राहण्यासाठी अत्यंत प्रतिकूल होत असल्याने दोन्ही देशांचे सैनिक हिवाळ्यात खाली सुरक्षित जागी परतत. व उन्हाळ्यात पुन्हा आपल्या जागी येत. असा करार नसला तरी दोन्ही लष्करांनी ही बाब मान्य केली होती. मात्र, पाकिस्तानने त्याचा भंग केला.
काश्मीरला लडाखशी जोडणाऱ्या या एकमेव रस्त्यावर ताबा मिळविण्याचा पाकिस्तानचा उद्देश होता. ती सामरिकदृष्ट्या मोठी आघाडी ठरली असती. त्यासाठीच पाक लष्कराचे तत्कालिन प्रमुख जनरल #मुशर्रफ यांनी सुमारे ५० हजार सैनिक घुसखोरांच्या वेषात भारतीय हद्दीत धाडले
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To all the braves who fought & defeated Pakistan on the icy jagged peaks of Mushkoh, Drass, #Kargil, Batalik in 1999: this nation is forever in your debt. And to the families of the brave who made the Supreme sacrifice keeping #IndiaFirst. An honour to have seen valour first hand
#Kargil is the story of #Pakistan stabbing India in the back. Then PM Atal Behari Vajpayee taken for a ride to Lahore on a bus as Pak army troops intruded into our territory. 530 army braves made the supreme sacrifice to throw Pakistan back across the #LoC
Raw courage, unparalleled valour & motherland before mother. Country before self. Col @Thapar77Thapar & @nehadw on the bravery of Capt Vijayant Thapar at Drass. Neha & @dikshadwivedi 's brave father Maj CB Dwivedi made the supreme sacrifice of his life here #KargilVijayDiwas2020 ImageImage
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Capt Karnal Sher Khan Shaheed (NH) (THREAD 🔗)

He was born on 1 January 1970. He was commissioned in the #Army on 14 October 1994. Captain Karnal Sher Khan emerged as the symbol of mettle and courage during the #Kargil conflict on the Line of Control. (1)
#ISPR
He set personal examples of bravery and inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. He defended the five strategic posts, which he established with his jawans at the height of 17,000 feet at Gultary, and repulsed many Indian attacks. (2)

#Pakistan #PakArmy_NationPride
After many abortive attempts, the Indians on 5 July 1999 ringed the posts of Captain Karnal Sher Khan with the help of two battalions and unleashed heavy mortar fire and managed to capture some part of one of his posts. Despite facing all odds, .... (3)

#OurShaheedOurPride
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#RememberingKargil
Barefoot, he scaled a rock wall at 16,000 ft in a daring mission
#LestWeForgetIndia🇮🇳 Capt Neikezhakuo Kenguruse, #MahaVirChakra (P), 2 RAJ RIF & his supreme sacrifice #OnThisDay 28 June #BattleOfTololing #OpVijay

The gallant #IndianBrave was only 25 yrs old
In 1999, when the #Kargil conflict started, Capt Kenguruse was a junior commander in the #RajputanaRifles battalion. For his determination and prowess, he was made the lead commander of the #GhatakPlatoon of his battalion.
On 28 June night, Capt. Kenguruse’s platoon was given the responsibility of taking out a strategic machine gun post held by the enemy on a cliff face, the Black Rock. Heavy gun fire from this position had been hindering the battalion’s progress in the sector for days.
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#ObituaryOfTheDay
Bir Gorkhali brother.
Martyred earlier today, guarding the borders of the Motherland.
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#ObituaryOfTheDay
Martyrs of CRPF - 22 Jun Image
#ObituaryOfTheDay
Four Men.
Same Regiment.
Different Battalions.
Same Date.
Different Years.
Same Valley.
THEIR Valley. Image
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As always he speaks from the heart. #Kargil war hero #MVC winner Col Sonam Wangchuk tells me if he had a weapon & CO was being targeted he would have used it, even if as a club. Unless own troops were completely overwhelmed by numerically more Chinese soldiers. On #IndiaFirst
Many gaps in assessment since we don't have the full picture. On a narrow ledge in close quarter combat in pitch dark how do you fire a weapon without being sure it won't hit one of your own brothers-in-arms. Will army decide or Netas & analysts about tactical operations.
One assessment of more Chinese casualties at #Galwan is that when more troops rushed on the ledge & it gave way, more of theirs went crashing down into the freezing river. All of ours are accounted for are all of theirs accounted for too from the nullah?Or #PLA couldn't care less
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A beautiful scene that belies the lack of modern High calibre #artilleryguns in the #IndianArmy & serves as a reminder that 21 years after the Field #artillery Rationalization plan was drafed to remedy deficiencies exposed during #Kargil they remain diminished.
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The FARP projection envisaged the acquisition of around 3000 #artillery pieces which were subdivided into 814 truck-mounted guns, 1,580 towed guns, 100 tracked self-propelled guns, 180 wheeled self-propelled guns and 145 ultra-light howitzers.
Some 2819 guns in all.
Out of this projected requirement only the requirement for ULWH ( Ultra light weight howitzers has been addressed with the ongoing acquisition of 145 @BAESystemsInc @MahindraRise M777 155/39 guns.
There is some chatter on an additional 290 gun requirement that remains open.
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#RememberingKargil

#LestWeForgetIndia🇮🇳#OnThisDay 02 June in 1999 Gallant #IndianBrave Captain Pannikot Vishwanath Vikram, #SenaMedal (P), 141 FD REGT, made the supreme sacrifice at a forward post at 17,500 feet in Kaksar while he was directing fire at enemy position #OpVijay
Capt P V Vikrm hailed from a family where military tradition runs in the blood.
Commissioned in June 1996, he had joined his War Veteran father Lt Col P K P Viswanatha Panickar's Regt - 141 FD REGT.
Here is the story of the #IndianBrave during #OpVijay #Kargil
Capt PV Vikram’s unit was deployed in the Kaksar sec, #Kargil.
On 02 June 1999, Capt Vikram was on duty at a forward post located at 17,500 feet in Kaksar performing the assignment of forwarding observation officer in direct support of 4 JAT #OpVijay
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📌Northern Light Infantry Regiment (NLI)📌

Gilgit Levies

In 1889 a force with the name of Gilgit Levies was raised under the command of Colonel Algernon Durand. The force, in 1891, fought the battle of Nilt against Hunza.

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In 1913 Maj JC Bridges reorganized the force on company basis and the force was thus named as Gilgit scouts.

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Gilgit Scouts
When Gilgit scts were raised, its strength was 582. The recruitment in the Gilgit scouts was based on the recommendation of Mirs and Rajas of the area.Close relatives of Mirs and Rajas were used to be given direct viceroy commission in corps of Gilgit scouts.
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1/n) 8 years ago on 7 April 2012, the #PakistanArmy suffered heavy losses when an avalanche struck the Gayari Camp in the Bilafond Glacier

The camp was a major logistic base for that sector & housed ~140 people. At that time elements of 6th Northern Light Infantry of #Pakistan
2/n) was stationed there. The camp had a major road which connected to Goma, it had helipads, quite a few buildings to support a major logistics base and nearby gun placements too.. it was on the Gayari river and was considered safe..
The avalanche which struck from the west of the camp buried it under 70 ft of snow and rocks.. there was nothing left of the camp as can be seen in this image.. and no survivors..

The loss of the camp was a setback to the Pakistani position in that area..
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