Kargil Vijay Diwas  is celebrated every 26 July in India  to observe India victory over Pakistan in the Kargil Ware for ousting Pakistani Forces from their occupied positions on the mountain tops of Northern Kargil District in Ladakh in 1999. Initially, the Pakistani army denied their involvement in the war claiming that it was caused by the Kashmiri militants. However documents left behind by casualties  testimony of POWs and later statements by the Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Army Chief of Army Staff Pervez Musharraf pointed to the involvement of the Pakistani paramilitary forces led by General Ashraf Rashid.