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| Army keeps hawk-eye vigil over snow |
| Army keeps hawk-eye vigil over snow-covered peaks
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| INDIA
, 28-July-2009
2:45:38 AM |
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Braving bone-chilling cold and high velocity winds, an entire division of the Indian army is keeping a hawk-eye vigil over the high-altitude mountain clips in Kargil and Drass sector and not vacating them even during unbearable winter.
The army stopped its winter withdrawals from the scores of high-altitude areas after Pakistani forces took them by surprise in 1999.
The Pakistan army took advantage of the Indian army's trend to withdraw its troops from the snow-covered peaks during winters and engineered an intrusion into Kargil capturing several strategic posts.
Even as the Indian army trounced the Pakistani troops and recaptured the peaks, they now maintain a round-the-year vigil over these areas.
"We are keeping round-the-clock vigil along Kargil and Drass sectors and the re-captured heights are now manned round-the-year along the 280-km-stretch border with Pakistan," said a senior army officer
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