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4 unusual facts about Kargil district


HAL Light Combat Helicopter

Combat in Kargil highlighted the requirement of an attack helicopter specially made for such high altitude operations.

Kargil district

At least until recently, some Kargilis, especially those of the Agha families descendants of Syed preachers who were in a direct line descent from the Prophet Muhammad, were sent to Iraq for their education.

Much of Kargil population is inhabited by the Burig and Balti people of Tibetan origin (converting from Buddhism to Islam in the 16th Century) and have intermingled with the Dard, Mon and other Aryan people.

The mainly Muslim Dards inhabit the valley of Drass and speak Shina, a small number of Buddhist Dard, known as Brokpa, inhabit the Dha-Hanu region near the Lamayuru monastery.



see also

Zanskari

the people of Zanskar, a tehsil of Kargil district, Jammu and Kashmir, India