The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Ladakh, then part of the Indian-administered state of Jammu and
Kargil war
Pervez Musharraf was a Pakistani politician and military officer who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. He overthrew Nawaz Sharif's government in the 1999 coup d'état and pro
Kargil War
…level of maturity in the relationship." Pakistani casualties have been difficult to determine due to multiple figures being provided by various sources. Pervez Musharraf stated that 357 soldiers were killed. The US Department of State had made an early, partial estimate of close to 700 fatalities. According to numbers…
Musharraf with U.S. President George W. Bush in Islamabad, March 2006. Musharraf was an ardent support of Bush's war on terror following the September 11 attacks, abandoning his support for the Taliban-led Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Musharraf meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi, April 2005.
The exterior of Lal Masjid in 2017, a decade after the 2007 siege of the mosque.