As India on Tuesday commemorated 23 years of its victory over Pakistan in the Kargil War, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh paid tribute to soldiers who lost their lives in the 1999 Kargil War and laid a wreath at the National War Memorial in Delhi.

The three service chiefs – Army chief General Manoj Pande, Navy chief Admiral R Hari Kumar Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari – also laid wreaths at the memorial.