Operation Safed Sagar: How IAF took the fight to Pakistan at 18,000 feet in Kargil
An IAF MiG-21 firing rockets during a training exercise. (Image credit: IAF) In the summer of 1999, the attention of the nation moved away from the cricket World Cup and on to the barren and desolate peaks overlooking Kargil, a till-then unheard-of town in a remote portion of the country.The early days of May had…