On Kargil Vijay Diwas, a dive into behind-the-scenes machinations at Pakistan army HQ in late 1990s 

Four Tibetan soldiers of the Special Frontier Forces (SFF) sacrificed their lives, and six soldiers bDly wounded. No mention of their contribution until today in the Indian narratives. SFF soldiers played a pivotal role in climbing Tiger Hill and securing the strategic position in the battle.

Pakistan is lucky to have honest and selfless politicians and military people who love the country. They have safely invested Pakistani money in Papa John's pizza franchise, real estate in London, Canada, Dubai, and an island near Australia. These investments have made sure that Pakistani people don't waste their money on luxury items such as wheat flour, vegetables, electricity, clothing, and education.

Sir With due respect - now that India observes Vijay diwas - victory in Kargil . I do seriously feel Kargil contest was a grave lapse of Indian army intelligence. But no one wants to talk about it rather than brushing under the carpet . Would be happy to be enlightened by contributors .

Till today Pakistan has not revealed how many of their soldiers died in the misadventure. The generally accepted theory (most probably true) is that they deployed their Northern Light Infantry and in that process the entire NLI was wiped out.

So sad that senior journalist has no guts to call out islamic radicalism and invents new term “islamic puritism”

Let’s make ourselves better than all our enemies. Pakistani army is already destroying Pakistan. For the martyrs, we owe you everything.

Our young Jawans and our equally young JCOs, our Martyrs, showed their "JOSH" and made that supreme sacrifice to throw the enemy out, lock, stock and barrel , while our General Sahiban took their own time to wake up ! Salutes to our forces !.. However, it is time that this Holy Cow status of the forces is given a go by ! That Colossal Military Slip in the Kashmir Valley in 1989-90 has not been explained by our General Sahiban which cost the country hugely and we the indigenous and original inhabitants of Kashmir, Kashmiri Hindu Pundits, lost our birth land, our cultural heritages , our civilisational moorings and our identity along with our beautiful mother tongue and the indigenous script Sharda !.. 😭😭😭

Excellent presentation. Thank you. It was a delight to hear you.

Thnaxs sekhar ji. Very good informative video...

I remember Kargil - america backed Pakistan and Israel backed India. Israel is the 51st state of the USA. Do the math. Remember Iraq-Iran war, America backed Saddam and Israel supplied Weapons to Iran. Northgate

Kargil War was also the start of India US Friendship! Pakistanis helped India in ways they never imagined! 😂😅

Very fine and true assesment you have given correct position of the issues in a political manar l admire you

Yeh Pakistani army Generals bachpan se surrender ka soch te hai 😂

Shekhar is a legend when it comes to disseminating tales of our armed forces and military conflicts. He has a knack of narration and highlighting key characters & events that make listening to him a very pleasant learning experience.

Mr Shekhar please watch the videos and expose the people who are responsible for loss of 527 life .

Love the news, thank you. Just a request if we can stick to the point vs throwing in extra info which is not necessary. Eg, the comments about them able to outdrink etc. That type of extra commentary is not useful info and I find myself fast forwading most videos.

I am from pakistan and was a student of class 8. Back then i used to read newspaper listen to bbc radio and vioce of america Urdu. Kargil was a poorly planed adventure fully busted by india.

Only channel I press the like button before watching

That was brilliant, Shekhar! Perhaps you’ll do something similar about NathuLa and ChoLa in September? We don’t get to see much about that one. Do consider it 🙏🏽🙂

The anchor has only two topics. Pakistan and Punjab 😅

Will army court martial those who are involved in drug smuggling in Manipur. ?

Pakistan was created to be a permanent thorn in India's side by western countries mainly UK and USAas a united and powerful country was not in their strategic interests.This role the Pakistanis have fulfilled notwithstanding the cost to their country.as Pakistanis know that their masters will continue to fund their country indefinitely.

biggest intelegnce failure book should be name. so many soldiers died due to some officers bad plannings.

Good morning gupta sab. Your videos are very interesting and have unique content. I am regularly watching them.

They were trying to Break up of India While india was working on AMAN KI ASHA One of my EU friend was In bewildered by the way India behaving very strange when it comes to pakistan but the same Indian relatively stern with them.

Benazir was mother of Taliban.

Description of 1996 seems wrong . People say benazir refered the general to president leghari , leghari asked finance how much funds for imports of sanctions result , reply was perhaps 3 to six weeks . He said NO . Leghari wife was devout Muslim under influence of a lady preacher now in Canada . She did not like benazir secular govt . Leghari dismissed her after murtaza was killed allegedly by Z men . But instigator was her brother .

zahirul islam abaasi is the same guy who went on to become DG ISI?

The enemy has been repeatedly defeated since 47 & is now bankrupt, broke & economically ruined.

Pakistan was not defeated in this war...Pakistan achieved what it wanted...winning war is never the goal of Pakistan but causing continuous pain to India..India lost so much of best soldiers and Pakistan lost some trash mercenaries..Pakistan is undefeated till it exists and it exist till it can cause pain to India so that India remember that there is country called Pakistan.

Guptaji great presentation of the other side perspective. Better to lessen what happened than to add more perspective of pak side. It will be more interesting😊 😊😊😊

Despite all that Mr.Sekar,the K.Subramanyam report is still a secret. Even the Henderson-Brooke report is a secret. How can the common man trust the govt?

Is it just me, or does anyone find similarities ( not in specifics bit in principle) between Pakistan's Kargil Operation and India's foreward policy vis a vis China?

SHEKHAR why you have ommitted to refer to KRC book by K Subramanian then NSA .

It's not important how many of the Pakistani NLI, died, but how the Pakistani Army can short-circuit the political process and start a 'unsanctioned' conflict. The stupidity of the Pakistani Generals (including Mushraff) in thinking India, would not respond or hotly contest, Pakistani incursions in Kargi, was really incredible. Perhaps, Mushraff and gang, expected Pakistan's nuclear, bluff to work. Eiither way, Inda never let go of the Kargil situation, and ultimately pushed them back. Pakistan's bluff, failed, but it shows the two timing nature of Pakistan. India should never let it, guard down.

WE SALUTE OUR MILITARY WHO PROTECT US !!🇮🇳🇮🇳👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 To cut your long story short..pakistani muslims and that too from punjab UNKA DIMAAG GADDE SE BHI KAM HAI and that applies even today !!!😄

very interesting podcast.

Gen Zahirul Islam Khan Abbasi died in 2009 . And yes he did form a Tablighi party called Azmat-e-Islam Bedar Pakistan Party.

11:35 Was the police siren in the background a happy accident or was put into the video deliberately? 😮

Coward Indian politicians....... Indian army was winning in 1948 when that time PM put the issue in UN and LOC and POK came to existence. In 1965 lack of defence budget and modernization caused loss of soldiers and hazi pir pass was given back on the nagotiation table. 1971 we had nothing to do in war when we had 93000 POW we lost on table. In kargil war single front and respect of LOC caused futile exercise we captured only our land. We are still losing life in J&K and saying peace peace peace Actually our soldiers are brave but system is corrupt and coward

So what did we learn from this episode of cut the clutter? Absolutely nothing. As always.

You are a great journalist sir We are very proud of you you are gifted person to our great country India 🇮🇳 I salute you sir for your honesty and simplicity Thank you so much sir for your wonderful service 🙏

Indian Airforce need 114 Rafael ordered this year as GIFT. And it needs to be ordered now. Legalise sports betting this year and it will fund 114 easily and rest spend on education & infrastructure

Even by rough estimates how many Pakistan soldiers died in Kargil?

👆 From the other side of the LC. We are the same blood. Except our soldiers converted our initial defeat into victory by their blood and for the honour of the Army these soldiers served. Misadventure of the other side was also at a cost. But has the government or senior leadership of defence forces learnt lessons.Less allocation of budget, is an indication towards that

He forgot about shiv Kunal verma’s book 😂😂😂

I am a BJP SUPPORTER BUT I dislike how BJP has overlooked voices raised by senior ex serviceman. You cannot let Agniveer go unemployed when they can easily be given jobs in paramilitary. If government cannot take them then how is private sector expected to perform this role? Not only this but Government has not taken lessons from Kargil seriously. There are two phases of Kargil war. Pre'bofors and Post Bofors artillery induction. The first phase India was losing miserably and the second phase we got a fighting chance. Lesson learnt - use your Artillary, helicopters, missiiles, RPGs and drones first before using army as cannon fodder and not the other way round, and be prepared for the worst scenario don't scramble after the damage is done.

I like the title ....Kargil : From Surprise to ....... atleast india is acknowledging that we (PAKISTANIS) surprised you in Kargil and will continue to do so.....please make sure that your army intelligence is not caught napping again !!

Shuja wrote this book decades ago why pick so late ?

B h o l a n a t h PA t h a k l 🙏🌹

O chadd deyo Pakistan nu 😂 It's just too much!

Lot of talks about kargil but nothing about Sri Lanka debacle ! Why?

Pakistan had been doing all sorts of misadventures with, almost, no punishment from India. Ultimately enough is enough. Time to give back a big blow. I could never agree with TWO NATION theory but now I twnd to believe there were real two nations. One which wanted to be mercinery, liea all the times and loot their own people so theymade separate countey. The other is what remains India was narion which mided its own business. Leaders apent their life in building nation and people educated themselves for the progress of India. Good riddence off one of the nation. I am sure if Mr. Jinnah survived then Pakistan would have collapsed long back.

Wellsaid

Why are you reposting old episode as new. Come up with some new insights.

Good afternoon Sir

In the ad bride is shown as if running away for marriage. Not for indian culture

You should talk about how your friend barkha in the name of reporting did what she did

I wonder by oberving pakistan behaviour,is there any understanding between pm office and army hq, today indian army killed a milirary comondo in kashmir with militants while pakistan is requesting indian cricket team to come and play in there country.

Insanity is doing same things over and over again expecting different results - should have been motto of Pakistan Army 😂

Bandar(Pakistan) kitne bhi gulati mare, aakhir lagaam to india k paas hi hota hain

Kargil happened because our intelligence failed under the BJP's watch. I hope this does not happen again.

Old man loook at your mentality your current pm up cm raw chief all 3 belongs to strict hinduu extremist rss organizatiin so wts the point

There are noumber of book written by noumber ofauthors .presenter use these books or book which suite s his or her narrative or ideology. For instance if he is congress sympathsier sympathsier he will use it to malign the then govt and vice versa.

Sir has a good grasp on the subject from Pakistan perspective but again huge bias and heavily skewed towards India can't afford to be labeled anti national by the likes of Arnab please recognize that Indians were decimated in this yudh like we were in fall of Dhaka pls do go granular on that don't just call it a Vijay lapdogs like Sharif and danda from us stopped it otherwise you know most of it would have been taken by pk,just cherish your economic prowess don't really go too far because of jingoism.

kindly use hindi, so we can also listen and understand

He is saif Ali khan uncle

SG is too much in love with Pakistan

हिंदी में व्हिडिओ banao

Print is obsessed with Pakistan. Can't stop talking about it. Itna bhi kya chatna. 🤮🤮🤮

India lost kargill, that tiger Hills still in Pakistan control how you define victory when you India Lost more people in the battlefield

Very Very funny

Interview Manish Bhatnagar. Don't skirt real issues and stop focussing on the esoteric? Stop treating our defence like a holy cow. They have severe problems and journalists of your stature will do greatest service to this nation by exposing these badshahs of our defence forces where integration don't happen, ships get destroyed in peace time etc...

Kya wahiyad log hai yaar.

What a bakwas narration of Kargil war, sara mood kharab kar diya toba toba kitne manhoos lag rahe ho 😂😅

Baldy again.

Sir disappointing to see thay you have not inckuded Ayesha Jalaal's book about Kargil. May be coz she is from Pakistan. It would have veeb interesting to include Pakistani take on Kargil in your discussion as well.

Kargil is now over 25 years ago. To the Indians I say put this behind you - if you can. India is four times the population of Pakistan. It has a military almost three times that of Pakistan. Your obsession with Pakistan has to end. Does this always need to be win or lose between India and Pakistan. You have a larger economy too...Please look for ways to bring peace. But make no mistake Pakistan will always RESPOND to any aggression from India. For last two years bomb blasts have increased in Pakistan's border areas with Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a large country that cannot be controlled by the Taliban. Hence there is space for Indian backed insurgents is there. And yes, they do damage by killing Pakistan soldiers and civilians. Today from the news coming out of Kashmir there are now attacks on Indian troops and some a getting killed. India blames Pakistan. This is entirely possible that Pakistan may be involved. Point is - if India does mischief in Pakistan border areas, then it is highly likely that Pakistan will do the same in Kashmir. So please stop this one-sided propaganda. War will NOT resolve matters. But looking at our 77-year history - I for one cannot thank Mr. Jinnah enough of separating from India. India is a very prosperous country and I wish it well. But look at a difficult question. Can be co-exist?

Shekhar Ghauri

Zaheer us salam saif Ali khan uncle

Propaganda machine 🤣

Too much irrelevant talk by the man

Thanks to Pakistan Army Chief Musharraf but also was President . Because he did Military coup We could win this war. Pakistan army can only justify high military spending if Kashmir is not normalised

"SG ka ulta chasma "

The UN Security Council resolutions of 1948 and 1949, which India accepted, demanded a referendum in Jammu & Kashmir. However, India continues to refuse to implement these resolutions. The BJP government should cross the ceasefire line and see that the people of Jammu and Kashmir, along with their Pakistani tribal allies, the Afghan Taliban, and the Pakistan Army, are ready for such an opportunity. They will ensure that the occupying Indian forces face a decisive response, ultimately leading to the liberation of Jammu and Kashmir from the 600,000 Indian troops. India should remember the events of February 27, 2019, when two of its fighter jets were shot down and a pilot was taken prisoner. India falsely claimed that an F-16 was downed, but the US confirmed that all of Pakistan's F-16s were accounted for. What happened in Afghanistan with the Soviet Union and the USA will be repeated by Pakistan and the Taliban in Jammu and Kashmir. Religious fanatics, we are ready.

Gilgit Baltistan and Ladakh should be autonomous region. Both India and Pakistan should vacate these place. We Dards have enough of the stupidity of both these countries.

From Kargil war, Pakistani understood that they can’t win with Indian players in direct war. So they are now aligned with left wing and making India islamised and weak inside

Hi, I had a lot of respect as an independent, excellent journalist and I used to watch earlier. But why are you making yourself irrelevant with such topics, Pakistan, Pakistan. Pakistan is bankrupt , dead finish. What’s is the use of that? Who are interested except politicians for getting votes? That also is no more working. Kargil, Savarkar etc people aren’t interested. Hope you will come up with interesting topics, so that I can watch. Thanks 🙏🏽

Waste of time...

Gẻneral Múharaf mistake was to depend on Nawaz Sharif govt for êxternal affairs handling, he should have known Nawaz Sharif govt cant deliver, he should have refused to vacate póitions & took ovrer the govt there n then. Long Live Pakistan Armed Forces and Kashmir Freedom Struggle.

Pakistan krgil har gya but koe bat nahe .har jeet jang ka hissa ha. Next time sahe