Kargil hero also saluted
Kargil War Hero Param Vir Chakra winner Honorary Captain Yogendra Yadav said that the support of the people here was very important for the army. Every citizen here worked shoulder to shoulder with the Indian Army. The local people did the work of delivering ammunition to the hills and showing the way. he/she said that due to their support we were able to climb the hills and fight because every Indian is a soldier, whether he/she wears uniform or not. The local people here were soldiers without uniform in this war and we salute them.
Remembering the development after the war
Drass resident and journalist Ghulam Nabi Zia has seen the Kargil war from very close. he/she says that there was no road, no path, no weapons on the mountains because Pakistani soldiers came stealthily. People brought weapons for the Indian army to the hills. he/she says, ‘It is unfortunate that till date, no film or book written on Kargil has mentioned the contribution of the local people, which is definitely regrettable. People’s crops and cattle were destroyed in the war, but people also dedicated themselves to this war.’ Zia says that after this war, a lot of development work has been done in all the areas of Kargil, Drass and it has been done very fast. he/she said that war has its own tragedy but looking at the development that happened after this war, it seems that if the war had not happened, Drass would have probably been 20 years behind.
Support of local people is necessary anywhere
The support of the local people is very important in fighting any war. The way many terrorist incidents have happened one after another in Jammu recently has again highlighted this thing. Pakistani terrorists are present in Jammu and they cannot survive without local support. The Indian Army also gets information about the presence of terrorists and their activities from the local people. Human intelligence is important for any war. The way terrorists carried out ambush attacks in Jammu has also raised the question that why human intelligence is getting weak here and information about the conspiracy of terrorists is not being received on time.