What the records say
- When
- 12 Oct 1999
- Kind
- Coup
- Coordinates
- 33.70° N, 73.04° E
- Description
- Military takeover of the government of Pakistan
4 sources record it
- Wikidata: treaties and coupsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Cline Center Coup d’État Project v2.2.2Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, University of Illinois · names it “Coup in Pakistan”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Kargil War (1999) began in May when Pakistan covertly made troops to occupy strategic peaks in Kashmir”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В Пакистане правительство Наваза Шарифа свергнуто”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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