Kargil Vijay Diwas 2021: Tracing end of the India-Pakistan war of 1999 through FPJ Archives Representational image It was the year 1999 and India had just brought the Kargil War to a successful conclusion. On July 26, 1999 India announced that its territory was "now free of Pakistani presence". The last of the intruders, reports explained, had now been evicted from three pockets of the Kargil sector. Since then, this day has been celebrated as Kargil Diwas every year. "All clear on Kargil," the front page of The Free Press Journal proclaimed. But while intruders had been evicted, things were not quite resolved yet. According to the FPJ report, troops from both countries were in an "eyeball-to-eyeball position right on the Line of Control and engaged in heavy shelling".