May 1999
India launches Kashmir air attack (26 May)
India launches air strikes against militants in Indian-administered
Kashmir for the first time in 20 years.
India
promises further raids (26 May)
India says it will continue to bomb militant infiltrators
in Indian-administered Kashmir until it has driven them out.
Pakistan
army on high alert (26 May)
Pakistan has called the Indian air strikes in Kashmir "very,
very serious" and put its troops on high alert.
India loses two jets (27 May)
The Indian Government confirms that two of its aircraft are
lost during a series of air strikes against militants in Kashmir.
Pakistan proposes Delhi mission (29 May)
Pakistan proposes sending foreign minister Sartaj Aziz to
India to ease tensions in the disputed Kashmir region.
Indian pilot 'killed in cold blood' (30 May)
An Indian pilot whose plane was shot down by Pakistan forces
died from bullet wounds suffered after he ejected, Indian
officials say.
Bid
to defuse Kashmir tensions (31 May)
India and Pakistan agree to hold talks over Kashmir in the
first sign that the two sides might be trying to defuse escalating
tensions.
June 1999
Kashmir peace hopes flounder (03 June)
As India promises to continue ground and air strikes against
infiltrators, a senior Indian minister warns there is little
point in peace talks with Pakistan.
India halts bombing (05 June)
India announces a pause in bombing raids in Kashmir.
Kashmir
talks confirmed (08 June)
Pakistan and India fix a date for their first significant
attempt to defuse the tension over Kashmir.
New
air strikes ahead of talks (09 June)
India continues its assault on suspected infiltrators holed
up in the Himalayas with fresh air strikes, ahead of talks
with Pakistan.
Pakistan
denies mutilation claims (11 June)
Pakistan strongly denies allegations that the bodies of six
Indian soldiers in Kashmir were mutilated by its soldiers
before being handed back.
No deal at Kashmir talks (13 June)
India and Pakistan end their talks on the fierce fighting
in Kashmir without agreement on how to halt the conflict.
India pushes on with offensive (16 June)
India claims successes (17 June)
Thousands flee fighting (18 June)
India presses ahead with its military offensive, a day after
US President Clinton asked Pakistan to persuade them to pull
out.
Kashmir
diplomacy hots up (29 June)
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returns from China,
as a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at ending the ongoing
Kashmir conflict gets underway in India and Pakistan.
July
1999
Clinton
urges India-Pakistan talks (4 July)
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and US President Bill
Clinton that "concrete steps will be taken" to restore
the fragile Line of Control between Indian and Pakistani forces
in Kashmir.
India
seizes strategic peak (4 July)
India announces it has taken the key Tiger Hill peak following
an all-out assault, as it prepares to respond to a joint statement
by Pakistan's prime minister Nawaz Sharif and US President
Bill Clinton agree that "concrete steps will be taken"
to restore the Line of Control.
Kashmir
pull-out agreed (11 July)
Islamic militants are reported to be leaving the mountains
of Indian Kashmir as both Pakistan and India claim victory
in the two-month conflict.
Sharif
appeals for Kashmir solution (12 July)
The Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, appeals for a
permanent settlement of the Kashmir dispute, as fighting in
the territory dies down.
