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| Gen. Sharif has abdicated Sharafat | | | While the two Army Chiefs of
India and Pakistan are engaged in
dishing out threats and counter threats it indicates that Pakistan has gone a step further in its game of causing scare among people and political leaders, besides the armed forces in India. It also indicates that the Army authorities in Pakistan have taken up the task of dishing out threats after those running the civilian regime in Islamabad had left the job of sending warnings to India an unfinished task..It is believed that the latest war threat issued by Pakistan Army Chief, Gen. Raheel Sharif, was to counter the threat dished out, a week ago, by the Army Chief in India, Gen. Dalbir Singh. But political observers are of the opinion that Gen. Dalbir Singh's statement on India's preparedness to meet any challenge from its enemy was an expression of the Indian armed forces' capability for "swift, short nature of future wars."At no point of time Gen. Dalbir Singh had threatened to demolish Pakistan in any future armed conflict. In fact India's Army chief was supposed to express his views on the preparedness and capability of the Indian armed forces for meeting any challenge in the backdrop of Pakistan Defence Minister, K.M. Asif's war threat issued by him a week ago.
And surprisingly and that too without any provocation Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif has warned India of "unbearable damage" if it tried to impose a short or long war on Pakistan. He has not stopped here. He has dilated on his warning by conveying to India tht the Pakistan armed forces were fully capable for defeating all sorts of external aggression. Though he did not name India but his fulminations were aimed at India when he said that If the enemy ever resorts to any misadventure, regardless of its size and scale - short or long - it will have to pay an unbearable cost. The remarks were a pointed response to a statement by Indian Army chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag who said last week that the Indian Army was prepared for "swift, short nature of future wars". Armed forces of Pakistan are fully capable of dealing with all types of internal and external threats, may it be conventional or sub-conventional; whether it is cold start or hot start. Pakistan is ready for it has been the sermon from Gen. Raheel Sharif.
The successive Army Chiefs in Pakistan have displayed their love and interest for politics which could have been the reason for many Army Chiefs to stage coup against the elected civilian regime to enjoy full military powers. This has been the reason that Pakistan, right from its inception in 1947,has had a longer spells of military rule than the civilian regimes. And here too Gen. Raheel Sharif has displayed political aspect of his personality when he termed Kashmir as "unfinished agenda of Partition", and like a smart politician, wanted the issue to be resolved according to the UN resolution which calls for plebiscite .He has also warned that Kashmir cannot be out in the back-burner. Whatever Gen. Raheel has said on building war hysteria and Pakistan's capacity to face any challenge from India can be an apt topic for research for historians and political scientists. But what people and politicians across the globe may evince interest is Gen. Raheel's pledge to dismantle the entire networks of militants in Pakistan. He has made a commitment which others believe he may not be able to fulfill. He has promised that the Army in Pakistan shall not relent until all terrorists, their financiers, abettors, facilitators and sympathisers were brought to justice. If Gen. Raheel fulfills his commitment there may not be any conflict between Pakistan and India. If India is worried and a bit enraged it is because of the activities of militants, on account of repeated ceasefire violations and as a result of open assistance militants have been receiving from the Army and the extremists in Pakistan in crossing into Jammu and Kashmir for raising the level of violence. This has been India's consistent demand. New Delhi has demanded that it would reopen the channels of dialogue once Islamabad stopped using the soil of Pakistan for exporting terror to India which was possible if all the arms training camps were demolished. Now the choice is with Pakistan. |
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