Minutes earlier, his troops had recaptured the key ridge in the Drass Sector after a fierce, night-long hand-to-hand battle. Ravindranath, commanding officer of the 2 Rajputana Rifles, radioed the commander of the 8 Mountain Division Major-General Mohinder Puri, camping some 20 km away. It was a simple, terse message: 'Sir, I'm on Tololing Top.' on June 13, there was no such problem when Colonel M.B. Sometimes, mujahideen and Pakistani soldiers shout curses and war cries.Īt 4.10 a.m.
They cut in with sophisticated electronic jammers to blank out radio sets. These are frequency intercepts by the Pakistani Army. Freezing Hell: indian troops take cover behind some rocks on their way up to tololing top.Theres no mercy in this moonscape.Indian soldiers in Drass have by now got used to interruptions in radio messages.
