Srinagar, July 20 -- "Look at my identity card; Pakistan [army] has issued this to me...I request, for God's sake, my father is disabled, and I am the eldest at home. Do not commit this injustice by saying that we're not your personnel" -Plea made by soldier captured by Baloch Liberation Army after the Pakistan army disowned him, February 2026. Dead Disowned It was during this very same month in 1999, that the Pakistan army's top brass exposed barefaced apathy towards its rank and file killed in combat during the Kargil war by refusing to accept their dead bodies. Denied military honours and a final resting place in their own country, these dead army men were nevertheless lucky to receive military funerals in accordance with Islamic buria...