When you have an army, which at first even refused to accept the dead bodies of its soldiers, how can you run out of coffins ? As we had to bury most of you and so we did with proper honors, obviously we did run out of coffins.
Unlike Pakistani army, Indian army has always been upfront about Indian casualties. Indian army then itself declared, that India had lost 527 soldiers in Kargil.
You ask, is it possible to hide 4000 Pakistani casualties in kargil, you tell us. Source of this information is none other than then and current Pakistani Prime minister.
Up until decade after Kargil, as per Pakistani army official records, there were zero Pakistani army casualties and zero Pakistani soldiers in Kargil.
You know, what they say, once a liar , always a liar, definitely holds true for Pakistani army
few pieces of history: All on record.
16 July 1999, ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday reiterated its demand by calling upon India to return the bodies of Captain Karnal Sher Khan and others which are being kept by it against all norms of decency and diplomatic behavior. Billing it as
"extremely regrettable and unfortunate" Foreign Office spokesman Tariq Altaf told a briefing along with Director General ISPR Brigadier Rashid Qureshi that there
"is no indication when the bodies will be made available". He said the DGMOs contacted on Friday afternoon and Pakistan reiterated its demand to return the bodies of its men or even of the Mujahideen. Indian DGMO, he said, told his Pakistani counterpart that he would try but
"the bodies were still with the Indians." On the identification of bodies, he said, the body of Captain Sher had been identified by Pakistan and his identification card number had been communicated to them.
But Indian claim that the second body was that of Captain Imtiaz was false as Imtiaz was wounded and was recovering in a hospital in Pakistan. Pakistan was in touch with the International Committee of the Red Cross to ask India to handover the bodies to it, said the spokesman. The disengagement of Mujahideen and Indian Army in Kargil-Drass Sector will take a couple of more days, DG ISPR, Brigadier Rashid Qureshi told the briefing. The phased disengagement starting from Kaksar to Mushkoh sectors and then finally to areas opposite Drass-Batalik sectors were supposed to be completed in a few days, he said. There has been no fire along Kaksar, Mushkoh and opposite Drass-Batalik Sectors during the last 48 hours. He, however, said one captain of Pakistan Army was seriously injured during an exchange of fire in Mushkoh Sector on Wednesday and embraced martyrdom while en route to hospital. Rashid said India has been claiming to have in possession bodies of 68 Pakistani officers and soldiers.
"It is ridiculous as to how come they have the bodies of 68 Pakistani soldiers while only 24 of our men are missing." The army spokesman said Indian television networks have been showing the shoulder titles, badges of ranks and division signs of alleged Pakistani soldiers.
"Everyone who is a bit aware of the armies in Pakistan and India knows that the officers and soldiers deployed at such positions do not wear shoulder titles even in peace let alone at the time when Indians were firing across the LoC." He said Indians have been refusing to handover the bodies of the two soldiers which they alleged belonged to Pakistan for identification purpose.
"Time and again they were asked to handover the bodies for identification but they asked for strange requirements. "
We will be honored to bury these bodies in Pakistan if they belong to Mujahideen."
Rashid said India claims that it also possessed the body of Brigadier Nusrat Sial "
who was killed in a helicopter crash in Skardu". He said Sial was buried in Jhang. "
Have they tunneled from New Delhi to Jhang to retrieve the body."
one more incident someone told me:
In one case indians contacted to take the bodies of pakistani army officer including a brigadier. but pakistanis rejected the offer. do you know why?
they contacted the dead brigadier and offer him his own body.
You can't say we never accepted the bodies. ISPR and government of Pakistan statement are on record in this regard.