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Pakistan: No option but to hit back at India & its Afghan proxy
Global Village Space |
Dr. Muhammad Ali Ehsan |
Rule one on the page of the book of war is: do not march on Moscow. This was said by Field Marshal Montgomery (House of Lords, May 1962). However, he didn’t talk about rule two, which is: ‘never make war with Afghans’. But what if the Afghans themselves want to make war? And if they draw the sword should we return ours to the scabbard? And if now we have an insult to avenge should we become avengers and not the professional soldiers that we are?
What is Afghanistan up to and how should Pakistan respond to an Afghanistan which is getting more and more Indianized in its speech and act?
If India was not playing the role of a spoiler would we ever have an Afghanistan that would duck and dodge the Pakistani offers of dialogue and instead respond by carrying out unprovoked firing at Pakistani troops guarding a census team (5th May 2017)? This latest Afghan firing incident demonstrates that the Afghan guns have also started speaking the Indian language of murdering the innocent civilians that live across the border divide. If their guns now speak Indian language what about the mindset and mentality of the Afghan generals and their military officers that get training exposures in the Indian military academies and training schools?
Read more: Will Pakistanis & Afghans be able to see through the Indian great game?
Days before this unnecessary firing incident in Killi Luqman and Killi Jahangir villages of border District of Chaman (in which 10 innocent people were killed and over 40 injured) Pakistan had made some serious efforts to warm up the Pak-Afghan relations. First a high-level military delegation led by CGS Lt Gen Bilal Akbar visited Kabul and later the DG ISI Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar also visited the country. These were high profile visits considering the unquestionable role that Pakistan military and its intelligence agency are likely to play in determining what shape and course our future relations with Afghanistan should take? Yet the Afghan President who was invited to visit Pakistan refused to visit and now this firing incident. What is Afghanistan up to and how should Pakistan respond to an Afghanistan which is getting more and more Indianized in its speech and act?
Does India want to squeeze Pakistan by propelling Afghanistan?
One cowardly retaliatory action that the Indians have already carried out is the abduction of Retired Lieutenant Colonel Habib of Pakistan army. Picked up from Nepal airport and driven to India, the abduction looks like a response act to the arrest of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jhadav.
The Indian guided Afghan motive is clear unless green-signaled by India, ‘rapprochement must always stay away and beyond Pakistan’s reach’. The now not so veiled Indian-Afghan dual policy of building pressure on Pakistan calls for creating a “sandwich effect” in which no major wars of conquests but limited and small scale proxies and military actions (like the recent one in Chamman) should be carried out with a view to damage and hurt the pride and prestige of Pakistan’s military. The paradigm is there at the Eastern front for Afghans to emulate. The front (Pakistan shares a 3,323 km boundary with India including 749 km LOC) where the bellicose Indian army continues to threaten Pakistan with a likelihood of retaliatory military actions and surgical strikes. The latest comes from their military chief.
Read more: Af-Pak border heating up: Who is to be blamed?
Speaking after the recent killing of two Indian soldiers on the Indian side of the border (for which India accuses Pakistan Army and for which it has no proofs) its military chief, General Bipin Rawat, said, “When this kind of action takes place, we also carry out retaliatory action… We do not talk about future plans beforehand. We share details after execution of the plan.”
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Pakistan: No option but to hit back at India & its Afghan proxy
Global Village Space |
Dr. Muhammad Ali Ehsan |
Rule one on the page of the book of war is: do not march on Moscow. This was said by Field Marshal Montgomery (House of Lords, May 1962). However, he didn’t talk about rule two, which is: ‘never make war with Afghans’. But what if the Afghans themselves want to make war? And if they draw the sword should we return ours to the scabbard? And if now we have an insult to avenge should we become avengers and not the professional soldiers that we are?
What is Afghanistan up to and how should Pakistan respond to an Afghanistan which is getting more and more Indianized in its speech and act?
If India was not playing the role of a spoiler would we ever have an Afghanistan that would duck and dodge the Pakistani offers of dialogue and instead respond by carrying out unprovoked firing at Pakistani troops guarding a census team (5th May 2017)? This latest Afghan firing incident demonstrates that the Afghan guns have also started speaking the Indian language of murdering the innocent civilians that live across the border divide. If their guns now speak Indian language what about the mindset and mentality of the Afghan generals and their military officers that get training exposures in the Indian military academies and training schools?
Read more: Will Pakistanis & Afghans be able to see through the Indian great game?
Days before this unnecessary firing incident in Killi Luqman and Killi Jahangir villages of border District of Chaman (in which 10 innocent people were killed and over 40 injured) Pakistan had made some serious efforts to warm up the Pak-Afghan relations. First a high-level military delegation led by CGS Lt Gen Bilal Akbar visited Kabul and later the DG ISI Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar also visited the country. These were high profile visits considering the unquestionable role that Pakistan military and its intelligence agency are likely to play in determining what shape and course our future relations with Afghanistan should take? Yet the Afghan President who was invited to visit Pakistan refused to visit and now this firing incident. What is Afghanistan up to and how should Pakistan respond to an Afghanistan which is getting more and more Indianized in its speech and act?
Does India want to squeeze Pakistan by propelling Afghanistan?
One cowardly retaliatory action that the Indians have already carried out is the abduction of Retired Lieutenant Colonel Habib of Pakistan army. Picked up from Nepal airport and driven to India, the abduction looks like a response act to the arrest of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jhadav.
The Indian guided Afghan motive is clear unless green-signaled by India, ‘rapprochement must always stay away and beyond Pakistan’s reach’. The now not so veiled Indian-Afghan dual policy of building pressure on Pakistan calls for creating a “sandwich effect” in which no major wars of conquests but limited and small scale proxies and military actions (like the recent one in Chamman) should be carried out with a view to damage and hurt the pride and prestige of Pakistan’s military. The paradigm is there at the Eastern front for Afghans to emulate. The front (Pakistan shares a 3,323 km boundary with India including 749 km LOC) where the bellicose Indian army continues to threaten Pakistan with a likelihood of retaliatory military actions and surgical strikes. The latest comes from their military chief.
Read more: Af-Pak border heating up: Who is to be blamed?
Speaking after the recent killing of two Indian soldiers on the Indian side of the border (for which India accuses Pakistan Army and for which it has no proofs) its military chief, General Bipin Rawat, said, “When this kind of action takes place, we also carry out retaliatory action… We do not talk about future plans beforehand. We share details after execution of the plan.”
Read full article:
Pakistan: No option but to hit back at India & its Afghan proxy
