The Rediff On The NeT Special: The Kargil Crisis


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JUNE 12
news
• Excerpts of the conversation between Gen Musharraf and Lt Gen Aziz
• Failure of talks could lead to war
• India hardens stand, puts murder of soldiers on talks agenda
• 14 soldiers killed in Batalik ambush
• Three army officers transferred for intelligence failure
• ISI admits Pak troops are in Kargil
• Infiltration began in January
• Army mounts major offensive
• Azam Ghouri: Andhra's Kargil connection
• Retired generals offer their services
• Aziz to brief Beijing on Kargil today
• Japan against third-party mediation

interview
• 'Pakistan does not have the infrastructure to launch a major offensive in Kargil': Major General (retired) Afsir Karim

analysis
• Shells of anger rain at J&K refugee camps

commentary
• Pakistan: The End of Innocence: Monu Nalapat
• Let Pakistan continue to bleed: T V R Shenoy

chat
• 'The Pakistani government, army and ISI are all hand in glove': Dr Savita Pande

diary
• Kargil Diary II

JUNE 11
news
• Army chief visits Kargil
• Pakistan 'frantically' wooing China
• Pak parliament blames India for LoC violations
• Bodies of Indian soldiers disfigured, says army
• Benazir warns of 'nuke exchange'
• Put 'Pak in terrorist list'
• India 'not well equipped to fight intruders'
• Bad weather hits air operations

interview
• 'Divide Kashmir, that's the only solution': Lt Gen I S Gill

analysis
• 'The suspense is always thick when you await orders to attack the enemy and seek revenge for a fallen comrade': Colonel John Taylor (retd)

commentary
• The Great Indian Illusion Trick: Varsha Bhosle

JUNE 10
news
• Indo-Pak talks unlikely to achieve much
• Aziz will be told to leave LoC alone
• 227 Pak army regulars killed: official
• Vajpayee to visit Kargil on Sunday
• Kissinger has private meeting with Advani
• Fernandes keeps mum over Kargil
• J&K CM rushes to Delhi
• Pak recruiting teens to fight in Kargil
• Russia voices concern over Kargil intruders
• US snubs Pak over LoC
• More US congressmen support India
• UN observers reduced to spectators on LoC

interview
• 'I am appalled the Indian political authorities failed to anticipate the Pakistani onslaught': Professor Sumit Ganguly

analysis
• The eye in the sky
• Flying in the face of danger

commentary
• Is ours not to reason why?: Vir Sanghvi

JUNE 9
news
• Landmine kills 6 soldiers on road to Kargil
• India invites Aziz for talks on Saturday
• Sartaj Aziz accepts Indian date
• IAF uses Mirage 2000s to drop bombs
• Air strikes to continue, so will talks
• A battle away from Kargil
• J&K police arrest 10 terrorists in Leh
• Few Americans realise gravity of Kashmir problem: Kissinger
• Forget the wounds, they just want to go back to the front

analysis
• Create a fear psychosis that the only way out is surrender: Brigadier (retd) Sudhir Arora

JUNE 8
news
• Vajpayee talks tough, says LoC is sacrosanct
• OIC too unwilling to support Pakistan
• India deliberately delaying talks
• Talks only way out, says Aziz
• IAF continues air strikes
• Bodies of three Pak soldiers handed over
• India must be 'ready for war'
• J&K CM to visit Kargil today
• Pak intrusion will be 'focus of talks'
• 10 Pak intruders killed in Poonch

interview
• 'We have to be patient when losses are not unacceptable': Air Marshal (retd) Sadanand Kulkarni

photo feature
• Images from the battlefield

analysis
• Trouble in Kargil hits tourist traffic: Amberish K Diwanji

diary
• Home comes the soldier

JUNE 7
news
• Air attacks resume as casualties mount
• India, Pakistan rule out war
• Officers Vishwanathan, Vikram cremated with state honours

JUNE 6
news
• India rejects Pakistani date for talks
• Nawaz Sharief warns of war
• Army produces evidence of Pak intruders
• Vajpayee ignores clamour for Fernandes's head
• 'My son has accomplished what I could not'
• Flt Lt Nachiketa was grilled intensely
• President receives Flt Lt Nachiketa
• Narayanan backs Kargil operation, flays Pak
• Intruders' bodies spark panic in PoK
• Pak may 'prolong crisis till September'
• Navy equipped to meet Pak nuke strike
• 'Strong' US support for Indo-Pak talks
• Success of talks will depend on Pak: PM
• Congress welcomes US stand on LoC

interview
• 'Pakistan does not have the guts to get into a direct confrontation with India': Air Chief Marshal (retd) S K Kaul

photo feature
• A Hero Returns Home

analysis
• Pakistan expects to up the nuclear ante and draw in the UN, US as mediators: Colonel (retired) Anil Athale
• The entire top brass in Islamabad are hardliners when it comes to Kashmir: Dr Savita Pande

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