India marks 26 years of the Kargil victory while reflecting on Operation Sindoor, its recent, high-tech retaliation against terror attacks. From mountain combat in 1999 to modern missile strikes in 2025,
26th July, 2025, marks 26 years since India’s victory in the Kargil War. Known as Kargil Vijay Diwas, this day honours the soldiers who bravely fought to reclaim peaks occupied by Pakistani troops and terrorists in 1999.
During his address on defence day, the Pakistan Army Chief said, "1948, 1965, 1971 or Kargil war between India and Pakistan, or Siachen, many have sacrificed themselves in them..
The accusations of sexual harassment levelled by wife of Kargil war martyr Indu Singh were directed towards State government officials and not officers in the Indian army.
Months after the signing of the agreement between former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Pakistani soldiers and terrorists intruded into the Indian territory in the Drass sector which led to the Kargil war in 1999
Congress has not only meant the Kargil war's win a victory to be celebrated only by the NDA, it also refused to celebrate the Kargil Vijay Divas when it was in the government during the UPA-1 years 2004 to 2009.