“Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Syed Asim Munir has officially acknowledged the army’s direct involvement in the 1999 Kargil War, marking a historic shift in the country’s stance on the conflict.”
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Islamabad : The pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Syed Asim Munir has admitted the direct role of the Pakistani army in the 1999 Kargil war against India. Munir referred to the three wars with India as well as Kargil in his Defence Day speech. He paid tribute to the martyred soldiers of the Pakistani armed forces.
He told those present at the GHQ that in 1948, 1965, 1971, the Kargil war between Pakistan and India or the war in Siachen, thousands of people sacrificed their lives and became martyrs for the security of the country.
Munir’s statement is considered to be the first confession of its kind by a sitting army chief on the direct role of the Pakistan army in the Kargil war. This is a stance that Islamabad has been avoiding to take for the last 25 years.
Till now Pakistan has been denying its involvement in the 1999 war and claiming that it was an action by the Mujahideen from Kashmir. Former army chief General Pervez Musharraf always claimed that the Kargil operation was a local action.
