India | Updated Jul 26, 2008 at 05:58pm IST

Ninth anniversary of Kargil victory today.

CNN-IBN

New Delhi: Kargil “Vijay” Divas commemorates the bravery of the 530 Indian soldiers who had laid down their lives while fighting in Kargil and had made India victorious over Pakistan regarding the Kargil Line of Control issue.

Pakistan had occupied unheld peaks across a 100-km stretch of the Line of Control in the Kargil sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Pakistan Army infiltrated into Kargil when the prime ministers of the two countries were taking an initiative for peace at Lahore.

Kargil Divas is largely confined to cantonments and ignored by government, as it is sees the Kargil war as an NDA victory.

The world was on an edge as this triggered a limited war between the newest nuclear weapon states.

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