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| Pak Defence Minister's hawkish stance against India | | | ET Report
JAMMU, Sept 5: While its discourse on peace has remained inconclusive it has started talking about war. This is the latest from Pakistan which used to blame India for having scuttled bilateral dialogue. Under the changed strategy the Defence Minister of Pakistan, K.M. Asif, has been assigned the duty of raking up war hysteria while Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, keeps on swearing by peace. He continues to remain committed to resolving bilateral problems through peaceful means and through amicable talks.
However, the Pakistan Defence Minister has worn the robes of a hawk and day in and day out he keeps on dishing out war threats to India. This one is his latest sermon. Pakistan is ready for a short or long conflict and will inflict heavy losses on India in case "war hysteria" overcomes Indian leadership, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said.
His remarks have come in reaction to the statement by Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh that India is prepared for "swift and short" wars in the future.
Asif has said Pakistan believes in peace but knows how to respond to any aggression. Pakistan wants peace but will inflict heavy losses on India if war hysteria overcame its leadership, says Asif. Commenting on Indian Army Chief's remarks, he said, "Pakistan is fully prepared to give a befitting response if India imposed short or prolonged war."
Had Pakistan Defence Minister expected India's Army Chief, Gen. Dalbir Singh, to say that his troops were not ready for any war, short or long. It seems so otherwise there was no reason for K.M. Asif to react to Gen. Dalbir Singh who had simply stated that India "is" prepared for swift and short wars.
Of late K.M. Asif has started repeating several year old stand of Pakistan when its leaders used to issue nuclear attack threat to India. And this time Asif has claimed that since Pakistan was a nuclear nation it had the potential of causing severe losses to India by using nuclear weapons against its neighbor.
Well in the light of the tough stand being taken by Pakistan one does keep one's fingers crossed over the ensuing talks between the DG BSF and the DG Pakistan Rangers. Will the talks take place or meet the fate that the proposed NSA level talks had met in August last? This is the question that bothers all those people on either side of the LoC and the IB in Jammu and Kashmir who want peace in the region.
If two major ceasefire violations, one in Poonch on Thursday and the other in R.S. Pora on Friday, by Pakistani forces is any guide one does not feel optimistic about the results of the talks between the heads of the BSF and the Rangers. It would be better for Pakistan to honour ceasefire agreement which alone could encourage the two heads of the BSF and the Rangers to hammer out some solution to the border conflict.
The only way open to India to silence Pak guns on the border was to adopt a proactive role within Jammu and Kashmir, on the LoC and on the IB in the state. If there is need additional troops may be deployed on the LoC and the IB for retaliating each and every ceasefire violation with force and fury. In addition to this the counter insurgency grid within the state, especially in the Kashmir valley, needs to be upgraded with the deployment of additional companies of paramilitary forces. |
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