evidence: Congress government of P.V. Narasimha Rao [...] Despite several tentative steps toward rapprochement, armed conflict broke out between India and Pakistan in the high mountains of the Kargil region of Jammu and Kashmir state (now in Ladakh union territory) in May 1999. The resulting Kargil War (May–July 1999) left several hundred combatants dead from each country. Eventually, intense international pressure induced the Pakistani government to withdraw its troops to its side of the line of control. Nonetheless, Kashmir continued to be a point of contention, and acts of terrorism conducted by extremists hoping to change Indian policy toward the region grew more common and severe. Divisiveness of BJP government