ABSTRACT

Chapter 7 is on the continuing conflict with India in Siachen and the war on the Kargil heights in 1999. The experiences of troops stationed on the world’s highest battlefield, the Siachen glacier, are examined through memoirs and interviews. The main focus is, however, the India–Pakistan war in Kargil in which Pakistan did not initially accept that the forces, which had occupied the heights of Kargil in Indian-administered Kashmir, were its own.