{"id":109970,"date":"2026-05-16T08:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/revisiting-kargil-how-india-crushed-musharrafs-bid-to-cut-off-ladakh\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T08:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:36:27","slug":"revisiting-kargil-how-india-crushed-musharrafs-bid-to-cut-off-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/revisiting-kargil-how-india-crushed-musharrafs-bid-to-cut-off-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Kargil: How India crushed Musharraf&#8217;s bid to cut off Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999, Pakistan&#8217;s army, led by General Musharraf, infiltrated Kargil, aiming to sever India&#8217;s vital National Highway-1A and seize the Siachen Glacier. Local shepherds alerted the Indian Army, which initially mistook intruders for terrorists. After a patrol led by Lt. Saurabh Kalia was captured and brutally killed, the full scale of the incursion became clear.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999, Pakistan&#8217;s army, led by General Musharraf, infiltrated Kargil, aiming to sever India&#8217;s vital National Highway-1A and seize the Siachen Glacier. Local shepherds alerted the Indian Army, which initially mistook intruders for terrorists. After a patrol led by Lt. Saurabh Kalia was captured and brutally killed, the full scale of the incursion became clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":109971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}