AJK surgical strikes planned after success in Myanmar: Parrikar

[HAIDER]

NEW DELHI: The Indian army was readied for its disputed surgical strikes inside Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) because an Indian TV anchor had needled the Modi government to take on Pakistan the way it claimed to have crossed into Myanmar, former defence minister Manohar Parrikar has said according to a report on Saturday.

The Indian Express said Mr Parrikar found it “insulting” that a TV anchor dared a government minister after the 2015 anti-insurgency operation along the Myanmar border to carry out a similar strike in Azad Kashmir.

Speaking before a gathering of industrialists in Panaji on Friday, Mr Parrikar, now the Goa chief minister, said: “The surgical strikes against militants [in AJK] were planned 15 months in advance.”

Thanks to a radar, 40 Pakistani firing units destroyed, claims India’s former defence minister

On June 4, 2015, north-eastern Naga militant group NSCN-K ambushed an Indian Army convoy in Chandel district of Manipur and killed 18 soldiers. Mr Parrikar said when he was informed about the incident he felt insulted.

“A small terrorist organisation of 200 people killing 18 Dogra soldiers was an insult to the Indian Army and we sat in the afternoon and sat in the evening and worked out the [plan for] first surgical strike which was conducted on 8th June morning in which about 70-80 terrorists were killed [along the India-Myanmar border].”

That was a successful strike, he said, adding that on the army’s side the only instance of an injury was a leech attaching itself to a soldier’s leg.

Contrary to some reports, no helicopters were used.

“I had placed helicopters [on standby] only in case of emergency evacuation,” he said.

“But one question [from media] hurt me. [Union minister] Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, an ex-army man, was on TV and he was explaining about all kinds of search operations. An anchor asked him, ‘Would you have the courage and capability of doing the same on the western front’,” Mr Parrikar said.

“I listened very intensely but decided to answer when the time came. The starting of September 29 [2016] surgical strike on the western border was 9th of June, 2015…. We planned 15 months in advance. Additional troops were trained. Equipment was procured on priority basis,” he said.

The Swathi Weapon Locating Radar, developed by the state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation, was used first in September 2016 to locate “firing units” of Pakistani Army, though the system was inducted officially three months later, he said.

Thanks to this radar, 40 firing units of Pakistan Army were destroyed, he claimed. Pakistan denies the incursion into its territory claimed by Indian soldiers.

Published in Dawn, July 2nd, 2017

 

[HAIDER]

What a comedy ....

 

[Itaalvi]

Every day he came up with new story new twist yesterday he only mention journalist insulting remarks made him to plan strikes but today he added Burma strikes, further he claims that because of some radar Indian army destroyed 40 unites of Pakistani artillery.....LOLS

Man 40 units

This man is out of control or may be in phase of menopause.

 

[Trango Towers]

If you are going to tell a lie.....then....

MAKE IT A BIG LIE AND KEEP REPEATING IT UNTIL THE MASSES BELIEVE YOU.

Germany 1939_45 (look how that ended)

 

[el nino]

Pakistan are born to deny .

They kept Osama in Pakistan for a decade and lied about him

They lied about kargil incursions saying their army was not involved it was mujshsdeen then it was nli and a brilliant campaign they claim.

They deny they lost saichen glaciers in 1984

 

[Trango Towers]

Pakistan are born to deny .

They kept Osama in Pakistan for a decade and lied about him

They lied about kargil incursions saying their army was not involved it was mujshsdeen then it was nli and a brilliant campaign they claim.

They deny they lost saichen glaciers in 1984

we also lied we took pakistan from and are never going to give it back.....enjoy your day and waffle on

 

[kabooter_maila]

NEW DELHI: The Indian army was readied for its disputed surgical strikes inside Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) because an Indian TV anchor had needled the Modi government to take on Pakistan the way it claimed to have crossed into Myanmar, former defence minister Manohar Parrikar has said according to a report on Saturday.

The Indian Express said Mr Parrikar found it “insulting” that a TV anchor dared a government minister after the 2015 anti-insurgency operation along the Myanmar border to carry out a similar strike in Azad Kashmir.

Speaking before a gathering of industrialists in Panaji on Friday, Mr Parrikar, now the Goa chief minister, said: “The surgical strikes against militants [in AJK] were planned 15 months in advance.”

Thanks to a radar, 40 Pakistani firing units destroyed, claims India’s former defence minister

On June 4, 2015, north-eastern Naga militant group NSCN-K ambushed an Indian Army convoy in Chandel district of Manipur and killed 18 soldiers. Mr Parrikar said when he was informed about the incident he felt insulted.

“A small terrorist organisation of 200 people killing 18 Dogra soldiers was an insult to the Indian Army and we sat in the afternoon and sat in the evening and worked out the [plan for] first surgical strike which was conducted on 8th June morning in which about 70-80 terrorists were killed [along the India-Myanmar border].”

That was a successful strike, he said, adding that on the army’s side the only instance of an injury was a leech attaching itself to a soldier’s leg.

Contrary to some reports, no helicopters were used.

“I had placed helicopters [on standby] only in case of emergency evacuation,” he said.

“But one question [from media] hurt me. [Union minister] Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, an ex-army man, was on TV and he was explaining about all kinds of search operations. An anchor asked him, ‘Would you have the courage and capability of doing the same on the western front’,” Mr Parrikar said.

“I listened very intensely but decided to answer when the time came. The starting of September 29 [2016] surgical strike on the western border was 9th of June, 2015…. We planned 15 months in advance. Additional troops were trained. Equipment was procured on priority basis,” he said.

The Swathi Weapon Locating Radar, developed by the state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation, was used first in September 2016 to locate “firing units” of Pakistani Army, though the system was inducted officially three months later, he said.

Thanks to this radar, 40 firing units of Pakistan Army were destroyed, he claimed. Pakistan denies the incursion into its territory claimed by Indian soldiers.

Published in Dawn, July 2nd, 2017

Planned for five months or for five years. What you got at the end? A bloody nose? Could not do more than attacking Pak FOP with mortars and picking up the dead bodies of own soldiers. Another army would have a deep shame for such a fiasco of failed 'surgical strike' but here we have Indians - an utterly shameless people. Due to the effective Pak response, their strike bogged down at the initial stage without achieving a single goal and yet they are insisting on these strikes without telling the world what they achieved and where's the evidence thereof. Indians are making themselves a laughing stock of the world. We like their stupidity and belligerence.

 

[el nino]

we also lied we took pakistan from and are never going to give it back.....enjoy your day and waffle on

It's S waterless desert we gifted you thst land.
Don't push too much remember 71;

 

[Trango Towers]

It's S waterless desert we gifted you thst land.
Don't push too much remember 71;

It's S waterless desert we gifted you thst land.
Don't push too much remember 71;

my deluded neighbour....we took pakistan from you and we are never giving it back.
1971 was a civil war that you indian snakes took advantage of. Bangladesh is still a muslim country that hates you.
remember 1965....how we made tea fro you at Lahore and forced your fighter aircraft to land.
even now you outnumber us dreaming surgical strikes but at the slightest indication of war your monkeys ask for leave to go home.
you are picking a fight with China..we are just waiting....1971 will be repaid in full plus some more. you took advantage so will we.
ps....like cricket.....180

 

[Samurai_assassin]

The mastermind of 71 took a bullet straight to her forehead in 1984. Who would have thought of it?

 

[Hamza913]

It's S waterless desert we gifted you thst land.
Don't push too much remember 71;

Remember 47? 65? 99?

And if you knew history, you'd know 1971 isn't as grand of a victory as you guys paint it as.

 

[Jf Thunder]

It's S waterless desert we gifted you thst land.
Don't push too much remember 71;

remember 1971 clearly
Battle of Hussainiwala?
Qaisar E Hind?
ring any bells?

 

[waz]

Despite the use of the term "surgical strikes", the Indians definitely did not airdrop commandos to hit "launching pads of militants" inside Pakistani-held territory, or conduct ground assaults deep into the Pakistan-administered side. But they did cross the Line of Control (LoC), in some cases by more than a kilometre, to hit nearby Pakistani border posts.

Police officials on the Pakistani side privately concede that such a ground assault did occur in the Madarpur-Titrinot region of Poonch sector, west of Srinagar, where a Pakistani post was destroyed and one soldier killed.

In Leepa valley to the north, locals said that the Indians crossed the LoC and set up their guns on ridges directly overlooking the village of Mundakali. A Pakistani border post located at some distance east of the village was hit. Two other posts higher up in the mountains were also hit. At least four Pakistani soldiers were injured in the attack, which lasted from 05:00am until 8:00am, locals said.

A similar advance by the Indians in the Dudhnial area of Neelum valley further north was beaten back by the Pakistanis. At least one Pakistani soldier was injured - reports of a dead soldier could not be independently verified by the BBC.

The Pakistani army described the exchanges as nothing more than cross-border firing, albeit in a more co-ordinated fashion and all along the LoC.

Officials said two soldiers were killed in the attacks - one in Poonch, and one in Bhimber sector, further south. Defence minister Khwaja Asif later said a total of nine soldiers were injured in the assault.

Indian troops could not have hit a target and returned alive as the climb required was too steep, officials said. Nor could helicopters have been used to drop special forces given the difficult terrain and because Pakistan would have shot down the aircraft.

There is no conclusive evidence to prove either side's claims - the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.

I normally wake up at 4:30am. As usual I did my chores - and just then I heard small arms fire, about 100 rounds. I waited a few minutes and then I heard four bombs [mortars] land near the village. We have been in a state of war for a long time, so I knew that heavy guns meant trouble and that the village might get hit. I was standing there when four more bombs came. Then four more, after a few minutes.

The first shells had landed in the forest near the village [where a border post is located] and I saw flames and smoke rising. My wife called to me to get in. We have built a bunker in the basement with 24-inch thick walls. She said everybody was inside, and wanted me to get in too.

By now they had started targeting another one of our posts higher up on the mountaintop in front. Then the next round of shells hit another post further back.

Small arms fire also continued. This was surprising for me. They had apparently crossed over from the LoC and had set up their guns at the top of the cliff. I could heard the bullets whizzing overhead, through the treetops, snapping twigs and leaves that were falling to the ground.

The firing continued until about 6am. After that, the heavy guns fell silent but small fire continued. We remained in our basement until 10am. No one had had time to eat or drink that morning.

Later, we heard that the Indians had crossed the LoC and hit our posts from positions overlooking the valley. I don't understand why they didn't try to reach our post where we have the local company headquarters. They could have done it. It's walkable, and is easier for them because they occupy higher ground. Perhaps our people detected their movement and fired at them which pushed them back.

This is the first time since the war on the LoC began nearly 30 years ago that they have fired from this position.

In many areas the attack came as a surprise.

Accounts of villagers gathered in Leepa suggest that Indian soldiers first opened fire in the valley at around 0500, hitting the post near Mundakali village and blowing up a mosque adjacent to it.

A soldier who was preparing for pre-dawn prayers was hit and injured, they said.

Fire was also directed at two other posts higher up in the hills, one of which served as the forward headquarters in Leepa.

Locals say bunkers at these posts were partly destroyed and their communication system was paralysed for some time. This meant that troops stationed down in the valley and at the brigade headquarters took a while to realise what was going on.

The soldier who was injured at the Mundakali post was given first aid by villagers, and then transported to the military-run hospital in Leepa on a motorbike. Nearly two dozen villagers helped put out the fire that had engulfed the mosque.

The Pakistanis did not take long to get their act together and fired back from the remaining bunkers, pushing the Indian guns back from the ridges overlooking the valley.

In Dudhnial in Neelum valley, the action took place further up in the mountains, away from the village. A few villagers were awakened by gunfire.

An official familiar with what happened that morning said the Indians had advanced well beyond the LoC when their movements were detected.

"The Pakistani fire sent them scurrying back to their bunkers," he said.

Down south, in Poonch, Kotli and Bhimber areas, it was more or less the same story: Indians coming forward from their positions on the LoC, taking unsuspecting Pakistani soldiers by surprise both due to the suddenness of the attack and the intensity of the fire and then pulling back once the Pakistanis had a chance to respond.

Unprepared, and having a numerical disadvantage generally, the Pakistanis made use of their firepower to the fullest, exhausting their ammunition.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-37702790

Pretty accurate I think.

 

[YeBeWarned]

but according to Indian Officials our BAT teams did surgical Strikes at them almost every week and take the heads of IA soldiers and came out alive and with some soda and chips too .. means we do more surgical Strikes than Hanuman Army