Army pays tribute to Tashi Namgyal, who sounded Pak intrusion alert in 1999
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Army pays tribute to Tashi Namgyal, who sounded Pak intrusion alert in 1999

India Today  

The Army paid tribute to Tashi Namgyal, the Ladakhi shepherd credited with alerting Indian troops about Pakistan's intrusion in the Kargil sector in 1999. “Fire and Fury Corps extends heartfelt condolences to the family of Tashi Namgyal - The first informant of Kargil intrusion leading to the War. Shree Tashi Namgyal is survived by a wife, two sons and a daughter,” Leh-based Fire and Fury Corps of the Army wrote on its social media handle X. The ensuing Kargil War, fought between May 3 and July 26, 1999, saw Indian troops mobilising swiftly, thwarting Pakistan's covert mission to sever the Srinagar-Leh highway.

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