In a reference to the 14-day long operation to remove a group of intruders, allegedly backed by Pakistan, in the remote Keran area of Jammu and Kashmir on the Line of Control (LoC), he said: "I want to remind the government of India, there was a similar infiltration earlier in Kargil."
"The Pakistan government said (in 1999 that infiltrators) were terrorists and had nothing to do with the Pakistan government. Soon after the Kargil war happened," he said.