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A bloody partition, seventy two years of hostilities, three wars and innumerable border skirmishes between India and Pakistan were occurrences which people of both countries had learnt to bear with patience in the hope that the next year or next month will bring this nightmare to an end. But the nuclearization of both countries, each claiming to have out done the other, has brought this proverbial patience to an end. There are many people on both sides of the border who would like to see progress in Indo-Pak relations that would make the peace process really irreversible. India fought four wars after independence. Among which first in 1962 with China and remaining three i.e. in 1965, 1971 and 1999 at Kargil with Pakistan. The present study is focused on Kargil war widows of Punjab because Kargil war is the recent one and widows of this war can more easily available. In this Paper we discuss the dark side of Widow.

Widows, Kargil War, Women,