The Economic Times

On June 24, 1999, the Air Force sent out a pilot tasked with bombing Point 4388 in Kargil. But the pilot ended up aiming at a Pakistani military base in Gulteri. Fortunately, the flight systems were designed as one pilot had to go first and set the target and then another plane would follow that had the actual fireworks.

On a mission to take out Pakistani outposts, an Indian pilot was captured and tortured by the enemy. International pressure and backdoor diplomacy was the only way Flight Lieutenant Kambampati Nachiketa was returned to India.

An inhospitable graveyard at half the height of Everest. A death toll so high that the government had to include the cost of coffins in their budget. A victory painstakingly achieved, territory recaptured yard by yard. That was the Kargil conflict.

The high thrum of shelling reverberated in thin air as men of the Indian Army climbed a straight cliff of about 1000 ft, the last leg of a 16,700 feet height. An entire contingent of Pakistani Army was up there, responding in kind to the shelling from the Indian plains ahead. The game was afoot.

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A fight, a dramatic capture and some scary posturing. We try to put together the tense moments between India and Pakistan on the morning of February 27.