Claim
In the past 78 years India has fought three wars with Pakistan.
“पिछले 78 सालों में तीन युद्ध लड़े हमने।”▶ Watch source segment
Rationale
As of the 2026-07-02 broadcast (roughly 78-79 years since Partition in 1947), the standard count is four India-Pakistan wars: 1947-48, 1965, 1971, and the 1999 Kargil War, which the Indian government itself commemorates as a war (Kargil Vijay Diwas). Saying 'three wars' is defensible only under a narrower framing that counts full-scale wars and treats Kargil as a limited conflict, but stated without that qualification it undercounts the commonly accepted total, so the claim is misleading rather than flatly false.
Evidence
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Pakistan_wars_and_conflicts Lists four India–Pakistan wars: 1947–48, 1965, 1971, and the 1999 Kargil War ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/conflict-between-india-and-pakistan CFR conflict tracker records four wars between India and Pakistan since Partition, including Kargil (1999) ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Kargil-War Britannica describes the 1999 Kargil conflict as a war between India and Pakistan, the fourth in the series ✗ unreachable · HTTP 403