Letters from Kargil
Documents recovered from the bodies of enemy soldiers killed at Kargil tell the story of a Pakistani military misadventure and the failure of Indian intelligence two decades ago
New Delhi,ISSUE DATE: Jul 15, 2019 | UPDATED: Jul 11, 2019 17:32 IST
The letter, dated May 15, 1999, bore the crest of two crossed swords under a burning sun. Draped around the swords was a sash with words from a couplet by Persian poet Saadi Shirazi: Pir sho biyamooz (grow old learning).