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Early Times Report
srinagar, Sept 19: In the aftermath of Sunday's deadliest attack on the army by terrorists in Uri, there are growing voices in India who want to teachPakistan a lesson.
Many say that India needs to break all ties with Pakistan while some seek punishment to the perpetrators and others advocate a war againstPakistan.
Various defence analysts have different take on it but believe India needs to give strongest reply to perpetrators of the Uri attack in which 18 soldiers have died so far.
"It's time we snatched the tactical advantage away from Pakistan by countering such an attack and showed them what the Indian army iscapable of doing," said military analyst, retired Lieutenant General Vijay Kapoor.
"We have kept our peace for too long and cannot allow terrorist proxies run by the Pakistan army to prevail time and again by attacking us," he added.
"The reaction to the Uri attack must be swift," said former army deputy chief of staff Lt Gen Raj Kadiyan. "This sort of situation in which we keep getting hit cannot go on indefinitely."
But other analysts and military officers differ. They believe that despite severe provocation, India, intimidated by Pakistan's trigger-happy nuclear tsars, is incapable of responding militarily to Islamabad, seeking instead the largely ineffective diplomatic and political route to try and chastise it.
"Over decades, including during the Kargil war, India has always looked to the US and other countries to discipline Pakistan, as there is little it is capable of doing itself," said former Major Gen Sheru Thapliyal. Robust, meaningful reaction is certainly not an option it can pursue, he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday has assured the nation that those behind this despicable attack will not go unpunished.
But the army is itching to respond to the Uri attack, seeking to kill more than the 18 soldiers it lost, to vindicate its "izzat", or honour, in a move guaranteed to escalate tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
They claim to have optimistically war-gamed scenarios like a response to the Uri attack, confident of "teaching Pakistan a lesson" long before itsarmy-controlled Strategic Plans Division unsheathes the nuclear sabre. Senior army officers, however, are agreed that a calculated response at a time and place of India's choosing should be dramatic and in direct proportion to the publicity it would generate to appease public and official sentiment over the Uri strike.
Besides, military experts argue that any retaliation to the Uri attack would need to be quick, as diplomatic pressure from countries like the US were already kicking in to preclude such an option, leaving little time to manoeuvre or possibilities to pursue.
The second and possibly only other prospect would be a "selective fire assault" across the LoC near Uri, through which the militants infiltrated, to strike at a Pakistani forward base or headquarters. That has, no doubt, been gamed earlier.
But for this to succeed time would be of the essence, as counter-measures would already be in place on the Pakistani side, so many feel it would already be too late for any such attempt. |
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