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| Army keeps eagle’s eye on Kargil peaks | | | Early Times Report
Batalik (Kargil) July 28: Braving bone-chilling cold and high velocity winds, an entire division of the Indian army is keeping a hawk-eye vigil over the high-altitude mountain clips in Kargil and Drass sector and not vacating them even during unbearable winter to avoid another Kargil War 99.
The Army stopped its winter withdrawals from the scores of high-altitude areas after Pakistani forces took them by surprise in 1999. Even as the Indian Army trounced the Pakistani troops and recaptured the peaks, they now maintain a round-the-year vigil over these areas.
Taking lessons from the Kargil war in which the country lost 533 soldiers, officers of the Drass and Batalik brigades said that a close vigil is being maintained on the re-captured heights.
"We are keeping round-the-clock vigil along Kargil and Drass sectors and the re-captured heights are now manned round-the-year along the 280-km-stretch border with Pakistan," a senior Army officer said. "Kargil heights are now safe. Let them (Pakistan Army) try this time, they will get a befitting reply,"
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