Pak Army's ISPR defeated India in the war of information - Indian Army General Syed Ata Husnain

[Shahzaz ud din]

Pak Army's ISPR defeated India in the war of information - Indian Army General Syed Ata Husnain

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معلومات کی جنگ میں آئی ایس پی آر نے بھارت کو شکست دی: بھارتی جنرل کا اعتراف
بھارت کے سابق جنرل کا کہنا ہے کہ ہائبرڈ وار میں پاک فوج نے بھارت کو پچھاڑ کر رکھ دیا ہے۔

بھارت کے سابق لیفٹیننٹ جنرل عطا حسنین نے 28 مارچ کو برطانوی تھنک ٹینک انسٹیٹیوٹ آف اسٹریٹیجک اسٹڈیز سے خطاب میں اعتراف کیا کہ پاک فوج کے شعبہ تعلقات عامہ (آئی ایس پی آر) نے ہمیں سکھایا معلومات کی فراہمی کیا ہوتی ہے۔

بھارتی سابق کور کمانڈر شمالی کمانڈ لیفٹیننٹ جنرل (ر) عطا حسنین کا کہنا تھا کہ بھارت کو اطلاعات کے شعبے میں آئی ایس پی آر نے پچھاڑ دیا اور پاکستان اطلاعات کی جنگ پورے طریقے سے جیت چکا ہے۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ اگر کسی نے سکھایا کہ اطلاعات کے ساتھ کیسے کھیلنا ہے تو وہ آئی ایس پی آر ہے، آئی ایس پی آر نے کمال حکمت عملی سے نہ صرف کشمیریوں کو بھارتی فوج سے متنفر کیا بلکہ بھارتی قوم کو بھی بھارتی فوج سے دور کردیا۔

ان کا کہنا ہے کہ کشمیر میں اٹھتے جنازے، عسکریت پسندی کے عروج کی وجہ ہیں اور آزادی پورے کشمیر میں گونج رہی ہے، طاقت کا استعمال اس کا حل نہیں۔

لیفٹیننٹ جنرل (ر) عطاء حسنین کا کہنا تھا کہ اگر شام، عراق، افغانستان اور پاکستان میں دھماکے ہو سکتے ہیں تو کشمیر میں پلوامہ واقعہ کا بھی قوی امکان تھا۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ روایتی جنگ کا تصور ختم ہو چکا، یہ ہائبرڈ وار کا دور ہے اور ہائبرڈجنگ میں میڈیا بڑا ہتھیار ہوتا ہے۔

سابق جنرل کے مطابق روایتی جنگ سے فتح نہیں ملتی اور امریکا نے سیکھنے میں 18 سال لگائے، دنیا میں دہشت گردی کی لہر ہے لیکن لوگ ہائبرڈ وار سے واقف نہیں، پاکستان نے معلومات میں انتہائی پیشہ وارانہ مہارت دکھائی اور بھارت کو اس میدان میں پیچھے چھوڑ دیا۔

 

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Pakistan's ISPR taught us how to play information operation: ex-Indian general

Lieutenant General (retired) Syed Ata Hasnain,former General Officer Commanding of Indian Army's 15 Corps (HQs Srinagar), advises New Delhi to take a leaf out of Pakistan’s strategy.

LONDON: Retired senior Indian military commander Lieutenant General (retired) Syed Ata Hasnain has praised Pakistani military's public relations wing, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), for doing a phenomenal job in disseminating information, connecting with the masses and setting the correct narrative beyond just Pakistani sphere.

The former General Officer Commanding of Indian Army's 15 Corps (HQs Srinagar) was speaking at a seminar organised by International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) on the subject of “Civil Society in Jammu & Kashmir: democracy vs terrorism”. Rahul Roy-Chaudhry, Senior Fellow for South Asia, IISS, chaired the seminar, which included speakers Dr Shabir Choudhry, President Foreign Affairs Committee of United Kashmir Peoples National Party (UKPNP) and Nitin A Gokhale, Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief, Bharat Shakti, India.

Lt Gen (retd) Ata, one of India’s most decorated military officers, spoke about the ISPR in his opening remarks and then returned to discuss it various times during the questions and answers session. He retired in June 2013 as the military secretary, after 40 years of service in the Indian armed forces. In occupied Jammu and Kashmir, he served as the GOC 15 Corps, headquartered in Srinagar, from 2010 to 2012.

“I give full marks to Pakistan for the manner in which it has played out the information strategy. The ISPR has done an outstanding work for Pakistan,” he said in his speech, claiming that India started losing narrative in occupied Kashmir in the 90s and has not been able to wrest control.

The former Indian general said that in India “everyone knows what the ISI is but nobody knows what the ISPR is” and only military professionals know about the ISPR.

Ata said the aspect of hybrid warfare has not been understood in India and authorities in India have failed to grasp that “the hybrid can only be countered by hybrid and not by conventional means”.

He gave examples of Iraq and Afghanistan where the Americans have spent billions of dollars but failed to achieve the desired results. “Hybrid in Iraq and Afghanistan should have been fought by hybrid, but hybrid was fought by going conventional.”

The ex-general advised New Delhi to take a leaf out of Pakistan’s strategy and use information strategy.

He said India has made many mistakes in its military approach but one of the biggest ones has been about the “the Military-Civic Action (MCA)”.

“The MCA is not soft power. It’s not psychological. In 30 years, Indian has made many mistakes as far as its strategy is concerned but one of the major mistakes is to think that the MCA is a psychological operation, it’s information operation. It’s not,” Ata said.

“If anyone has taught us how to play information operation it’s the ISPR of Pakistan who have done it marvellously, I would like to give it back to them, always. Credit to them.”

Speaking about occupied Kashmir, he said, “From 2012 onwards Pakistan got upper hand and the change of the generation and social media made all the difference. We didn’t know how to carry the information side of things but Pakistan has done it extremely well.”

The former Indian general said that India has been thwarted in IoK by the rise of social media from 2010 onwards, adding that the new generation of Kashmiris used social media to promote “Azaadi” narrative and that has gone against India.

He agreed that the use of hard power had not worked in occupied Kashmir, adding that India would eventually come to give up the muscular power there.

Rahul Roy-Chaudhry told this scribe: “In view of the Pulwama suicide bombing attack that led to India and Pakistan almost coming to the brink of war, this session focused on key issues of governance, calls for independence, and the media in Kashmir, amidst looming parliamentary elections. It provided an opportunity to look forward, not backwards, towards political and regional stability.”

Dr Shabbir Chaudhry condemned illegal detention of Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin Malik and other Kashmiris. He criticised the Indian government for imposing a ban on the JKLF last week.

Chaudhry said the use of hard power by India — such as pellet guns, torture and killings — had played a big part in the alienation of Kashmiris.

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[Dushyant]

Anyone who has lost hair and has a shining head is up with an agenda. Never follow him. Quote from DS tomar . forget what he says and look how you can progress

 

[Zulfiqar]

DG sb as usual

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[Shahzaz ud din]

Indian ex-general hails ISPR for playing ‘outclass information war’
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Published: March 30, 2019
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ISPR did outstanding work by ensuring alienation of Kashmiris against Indian troops, says Lt-Gen (retd) Ata Husnain. SCREENGRAB

A former Indian military commander praised the Pakistan Army’s media wing for employing outstanding strategy in the domain of hybrid warfare.

During his address at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in UK on Thursday, Lieutenant General (retd) Syed Ata Husnain acknowledged that the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) outclassed the Indian army in information war saying: “I want to give full marks to the ISPR for the information strategy that it has played out.”
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He said, “The ISPR did an outstanding work for Pakistan by ensuring detailed alienation of Kashmiris against Indian armed forces and Indian nation,” adding, “If anyone has ever taught us [India] about the information operation it was the ISPR… it has done a splendid job.”
Blaming the Modi administration for the February 15 suicide attack in occupied Kashmir, the retired general, who had also served as the corps commander in the disputed valley in 2003, said he was aware of the fact that the Pulwama like incident was inevitable due to the Indian government lack of understanding of the conflict.

While pointing out the mistakes of Indian troops, Hussain said that the army has made a lot of strategic mistakes in 30 years but one of major blunder was to consider the military actions as the psychological war.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1940044/1/?jwsource=cl
According to the retired general, the youth’s mammoth funeral procession is cause of rising extremism among Kashmiris, adding that the use of force cannot solve the Kashmir dispute.

 

[Yaseen1]

The reason is not only information but also truth and evidence supporting information due to good and actual performance of army in battle field which india doesnot have with them

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

He is muslim . Naturally his sympathy is with kashmir people. Nothing to wonder.
He also said India did wrong using power in kashmir. He is criticizing wrong policies.

 

[TOPGUN]

India, has been defeated in all corners and in all ways lolz.

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Even the 7th grader daughter of my Indian Muslim neighbor is lamenting for her forefathers' not migrating to Pak.....

 

[Darth Vader]

I think DGISPR is a regular Member of Def PDF LOL

 

[Michael Corleone]

Anyone who has lost hair and has a shining head is up with an agenda. Never follow him. Quote from DS tomar . forget what he says and look how you can progress

doesn't apply if he's hindu and drinks cow piss though

 

[Dushyant]

doesn't apply if he's hindu and drinks cow piss though

Lot of hindus dont do stupidity! Some of are educated in science

 

[Michael Corleone]

Lot of hindus dont do stupidity! Some of are educated in science

same can be said about muslims.... your point? irrelevant

 

[Dushyant]

same can be said about muslims.... your point? irrelevant

I agree , 99% of generalisiation is false ,including this 99% one!

 

[Michael Corleone]

I agree , 99% of generalisiation is false ,including this 99% one!

and hence you agree and i believe refute your first statement