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Because neither country would be able to hold on to any territory they "conquered". Even if we conquered Lahore, it would be no use to us and we would eventually have to return it to Pakistani because most people in Lahore would be anti-Indian and pro-Pak and they would revolt/riot, etc. Same with any territory Pak gained in Rajasthan or Indian Punjab. However, the same cannot be said of Kashmir, if Pak indeed had conquered Kashmir which it set out to do in 1965, we might have never gotten Kashmir back after. Hence, we met our war objectives of defending Kashmir, as that was all that mattered to us.
The fact that Pakistan went from conquering Kashmir to defending Lahore by the tooth should tell you how the war in 1965 exactly shaped out. Thereis a reason that you celebrate "Defence (of Lahore) Day" rather than "Invasion (of Kashmir) Day".
No matter how much you try to twist history (which happens to be quite the rage in Pakistan), you will forever have to live with the fact that despite help from Iran and China, you barely defended Lahore (and in no certain means, definitely lost the war).
This one time it may be advisable for Indians to let the Pakistanis go. Each nation after all needs an occasion to smile at themselves. They would like to see some positives in 65 for 71 had none.
The 65 war that began in Sept had its origins in the Rann of Kutchh incidents earlier that year. Ayub , the self promoted Field Marshal felt he could pry J&K from India. What he then did was Op Gibraltar - insertion of SSG into J&K:
(1) Salahuddin Force” operating in Srinagar Valley
(2) “Ghaznavi Force “ in Mendhar-Rajauri area,
(3) “Tariq Force” in Dras-Kargil area,
(4) “Babar Force “in Nowshera-Sundarbani area,
(5) “Qasim Force” in Bandipura-Sonarwain area,
(6) “Khalid Force” in Qazinag-Naugam area,
(7) “Nusrat Force” in Tithwal-Tangdhar area,
(8) “Sikandar Force” in Gurais area
(9) “Khilji Force” in Kel-Minimarg area.
It began in Aug 65 and failed to meet its objectives.
Op Grand Slam was launched to capture Chamb and threaten Akhnur as it was feared that Muzaffarabad was threatened. Maj Gen Akhtar Malik was the GOC of 12 Infantry Division tasked for this. Half way through the war for some inexplicable reason he was replaced by Maj Gen Yahya Khan. This gave the Indians a well needed pause to consolidate themselves and stop the advancing Pak forces.
It was against this back drop that the IA then launched an offensive to threaten Lahore - a high value objective whose loss would be unacceptable to the enemy. It had the desired results and compelled Pak to recoil & shift troops south from Chamb - Akhnur area to defend Lahore.
The war on the Pakistani side was thus conducted disinterestedly because the higher leadership was simply irresolute and was not prepared or interested in fighting the war which came as a rude shock to them once the Indians attacked Lahore.
Post No 1 talks of various incidents that happened on the Indian side. It may be remembered that both IA & PA then were like huge lumbering armies equipped mostly with WWII equipment mostly inexperienced in sustained operations in the plains. India exploited its advantage of depth, numbers and exercised its option of opening up fronts away from the area of choosing where the enemy would like to fight.
Nothing surprising therefore that small battles dictated the war . Overall both nations would like to feel that they achieved their war aims.
One can only question what the war aims of Pak were ? For India it was to defend its own territory & take the war into enemy land, make him recoil .
Ayub was militarily naive enough to think that India would not start an all out war if Pakistan went for what Ayub himself called “India’s jugular vein” i.e. Akhnur.
Grand Slam harmed the Pakistani military cause in two ways.
Firstly, it provoked India to launch an all out war which Ayub did not have the resolution to fight and which Musa did not have the military genius to conduct!
Secondly, as a result of this indecision Pakistan failed to capture Akhnur whose loss would have led to a serious operational imbalance in the Indian dispositions in Kashmir and would have weakened India’s resolve to attack Lahore and opposite Chawinda without first redressing the serious imbalance opposite Kashmir.
Thus Pakistani military/political leadership failed in both aims; ie to sever the jugular and to prevent an all out war; and primarily because of irresolution on part of their own higher leadership rather than enemy resistance. Thus Ayub and his team were not propelled by a burning desire to defeat the enemy by decisive conduct of operations but by an essentially defensive attitude.
This lack of ability to see / war game things through to their logical end keeping all options available to India in mind has been visible again & again. Longewala, Kargil are some examples which proves that fortune does not always favour the brave - it frowns at the stupid.
Coz that operation was carriesd out by non state actors/mujaheedins/kashmiri freedom fighters.....Why Pakistan never want to talk about Operation Gibraltar.
Why Pakistan never want to talk about Operation Gibraltar.
Who told you that. Start talking.
Coz that operation was carriesd out by non state actors/mujaheedins/kashmiri freedom fighters.....
Original Post By ajtr
Look what I found.
Ofcourse i being pakistani voice can take credit of speaking about it..............See, some body has already started talking and punching key without giving any thought to what is being typed.
I told you. Who stops you. Start talking.
what you result got by your imagination and pretension after closing your eyes......I can not understand the competing mentality on both sides ,who killed the most.? Just close your eyes for one minute and pretend this area is united imagine the miracules we can perform limtless.