Kargil: Finally, Pak admits army's role
New Delhi: For years, Pakistan denied that any of its regular soldiers fought in the Kargil war. But more than a decade after the conflict, it has honoured its soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the battle by quietly making their names public.



In this file photo, Pakistani soldiers fire an artillery piece from a post in Kharmang district

The names of 350 Pakistani soldiers, a majority of them from the Northern Light Infantry, have been put up on the official website of the Pakistani Army, in a nondescript section titled 'Shuhada's (Martyrs') Corner'.

The list includes the two "heroes" of Pakistan, Captain Karnal Sher Khan and Havildar Lalak Jan, who were awarded the nation's highest gallantry award, the Nishan-i-Haider, for the operations and hundreds of other soldiers who fought in the battle.

While Pakistan has never officially revealed the number of soldiers who died in the 1999 conflict, former President Pervez Musharraf admitted in his 2007 book that 357 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 665 wounded.