Topic - Kargil

Kargil is a town in the Kargil district of Ladakh. It is the second largest town in Ladakh after Leh. It is located 60 km and 204 km from Drass and Srinagar to the west respectively, 234 km from Leh to the east, 240 km from Padum to the southeast and 1,047 km from Delhi to the south. - Source: Wikipedia

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In this Friday, July 22, 2011, file photo, children play cricket by Pangong Lake, near the India-China border in Ladakh, India. India’s surprise move in August 2019, to carve out the sparsely populated region of Ladakh from the state of Jammu and Kashmir and make it into a territory directly controlled by New Delhi has been met with protests in Kargil, a Muslim-majority border city in Ladakh that identifies culturally with Kashmir, suggesting that the Hindu nationalist-led government’s plan to redraw the country’s political map will be far from easy. Mountainous Jammu and Kashmir comprises three regions: Hindu-majority Jammu, Muslim-majority Kashmir, and heavily Buddhist Ladakh. Ladakh borders Tibet to the east and the Chinese territory of Xinjiang in the far north. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

India’s splitting of Kashmir opposed in Muslim border city

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