Re: Who really won Kargil war?
Gentleman before fighting first decide what is a military victory.
If the aim of the operation is achieved the operation is victory, cost-profit ratios are not important in combat. (Russian casualities on Eastern front in WWII were almost 8 times the german casualities, can we declare Russia as a looser on the basis of casualities or Germany victorious on inflicting such losses?)
Indian Army had to scale those heights which were occupied by Pakistan Army so naturally they were bound to have these casualities, however such a large number of Pakistani Casualities are strange given they were dominating and still suffered.
The problem was faulty planning simple and straight. The logistics were not up to the mark. The Logisticians were simply kept in the dark (Pak Army has gone under a major logistic restructuring after Kargil, why restructure a successful system). As we never owned our soldiers, Indians were able to nullify our dominance with unhindered use of their Air Force & Artillery. Infact contrary to all tactical employment of artillery, they even placed guns next to each other in line to give maximum possible fire support to their attacking troops, (as Pak has not owned these soldiers so we could not cover them by counter bombarment)
Still the credit goes to young officers and Jawans that inspite of limited rations and ammunitions and being continously pounded by heavy artillery and precision guided bombs they stood their ground to the maximum possible time but till when, there is a limit to human endurance. (Inspite all this i can give you casuality figures on one Indian Unit 17 Punjab which went on an attack. Its attack was successful but it suffered 246 casualities i.e. dead & wounded in one night).
Speaking the truth, Indian casualities were well served but Pakistani casualities were futile. If you remember the video footage shown on Television of the night when Nawaz Sharif dashed for Washington, Musharraf came to see him off till the tarmac. why would he come if he would oppose this move. It was better time to depose a prime minister when he is turning victory into defeat than once he is doing something unkind although constitutional act.
so summarising, Pak Army could not achieve what it aimed for i.e. Dominance of the startegic Srinagar-Leh Highway but Indian Army achieved what it aimed for i.e. eviction of Pak Army from threatening locations. so who won & who lost?
decide yourself
P.S: Kargil was neither a tactical nor a strategic victory for Pak Army. Some heads must roll if we are to avoid such instances in future