- Title: Pakistan using "terrorism, proxy war" to stay relevant, says India PM Modi
- Date: 26th July 2024
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- Keywords: Drass India Kargil Ladakh Narendra Modi National War Memorial Pakistan Prime Minister conflict martyrs national flag rivals soldiers victory war win wreaths
- Location: DRASS, LADAKH, INDIA
- City: DRASS, LADAKH, INDIA
- Country: India
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Defence,Government/Politics
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday (July 26) that Pakistan had not learned any lessons from its past and was trying to stay relevant through "terrorism and proxy war."
Warning supporters of "terrorism" that they would never be successful, Modi said the "enemy" would be given a tough response. Modi was speaking in the Himalayan region of Kargil to mark 25 years of India's short military conflict with Pakistan there in 1999.
On July 26, 1999, the Indian armed forces defeated the Pakistani Army at the heights of Batalik, Kargil, and Dras are sectors of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir states.
Nearly 500 Indian soldiers died on the snow-capped peaks of Kargil in the campaign to oust hundreds of infiltrators from Pakistan.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, two of them over Kashmir.
Kargil is located 205 kilometres from Kashmir's summer capital of Srinagar and faces Pakistan's so-called Northern Areas across the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the Himalayan region between the two countries. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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