IN PICS | Kargil Vijay Diwas: Glimpses From Days Of War, Sacrifices Made By Indian Army

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Soldiers from the Indian army fire their 105mm guns, 31 May 1999, from their outpost near Kargil towards the India-Pakistan border in Kashmir. India launched massive air strikes, 01 June 1999, against Moslem guerillas in Kashmir and accused Pakistan of intensifying artillery fire along their disputed border, as the two rivals argued over dates for peace talks. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read ARKO DATTA/AFP via Getty Images)

Men from the Indian army paying their respects to the six soldiers who were killed by Pakistani guerrilla forces in New Delhi on June 11, 1999. India has alleged the six soldiers of the Kargil region were killed in a "Barbaric, inhuman and cruel manner". (Photo by t.C. Malhotra/getty images)

An Indian army soldier walks in a war memorial for the killed Indian soldiers on July 30, 2015, in Drass, 142 km (88 miles) east of Srinagar the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Drass, the second coldest place on earth straddles on the Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. In a region with an altitude-influenced subarctic climate, average low temperatures are around -25 C (-10 F), and as low as -45 C (-10 F) at the height of winter, which lasts from mid-October to mid-May. Drass is located in a relatively flat and open space with extensive willow groves along the river. (Photo by NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Indian Soldiers Salute June 16,1999 in New Delhi, to the mortal remains of Major Vivek Gupta, who was martyered during the war. (Photo By T.C. Malhotra/Getty Images)

Captain Jayashree Salutes June 16,1999 in New Delhi, to the mortal remains of her husband Major Vivek Gupta. (Photo By T.C. Malhotra/Getty Images)

Injured Indian soldiers resting in a hospital in New Delhi on June 3,1999. India and Pakistan both suffered casualties in intense fighting in the Himalayan region. (Photo by T.C. Malhotra/Getty images)

Punjabi pop sensation Daler Mehandi dances with Indian army soldiers at a railway station in New Delhi on July 6, 1999, before their departure to the Kargil sector in Kashmir. (Photo by T.C. Malhotra/Getty images)

The then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee views the wreckage of the Pakistani naval aircraft at his New Delhi office on August 11, 1999. It was said the plane was shot down on August 10th after it intruded into its territory and refused to respond to Indian warnings near the border in Gujarat state. The wreckage was flown to the Indian capital early morning. At least 16 people were killed in the incident. (Photo by T.C. Malhotra/Getty Images)

Refugees from the Dras sector prepare rice under a tent in a makeshift refugee camp about 70 kilometers northeast of Srinagar, 15 June 1999. Thousands of residents had been displaced by heavy fighting in the Kargil and Dras sectors between Indian troops and Islamic guerrillas, allegedly backed by Pakistan, who have infiltrated the Indian side of the Line of Control (LoC) that separates Indian held and Pakistan-held Kashmir. (Photo by MUSTAFA TAUSEEF/AFP via Getty Images)