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Updated on: July 20, 2020 13:01 IST

Kargil Vijay Diwas: How despite Vajpayee's call for peace, India and Pakistan embarked on path of war in 1999

In 1999, Atal Bihar Vajpayee embarked on a historic journey to Pakistan. Popularly known as the the Lahore Summit, went down in history as a moment that could have resulted in a long lasting peace had it not been for the ill intensions of the Pakistani Army led by the then Pak Army Chief Parvez Musharraf. India TV's Political Editor Jayanta Ghoshal, in conversation with Sidhant Mamtany recalls the time when he travelled with PM Vajpayee to Pakistan. Twenty-one years after the war as we remember our heroes on the Kargil Vijay Diwas on July 26, here's a look back at how the events of 1998 and 1999 transpired.

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