truthseeker2010
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India invaded East Pakistan on the night of 21 November 1971.
After broder shellings, skirmishes and insurgency of eight months wore down Pakistani troops.
Yahya vacillated for eleven days before opening the Western frontier---on 3rd December, when it was already too late.
Yahya should have attacked much earlier---he also made the blunder of not acting decisively and unleashing Tikka Khan's reserves.
Get your facts straight.
Again, Ayub Khan replaced Akhtar Malik and ordered Yahya not to attack Akhnur---fearing Indian attack on Sialkot, which came regardless.
Had Ayub shown some nerve and acted decisively, Kashmir would've fallen into our lap like a ripe fruit.
Again lack of decisiveness and showing timidness cost us dearly---and here you are advocating for timidness.
Had we shown grit and resolve like Israel and went for Akhnur instead of vacillating, the result would've been different.
We wasted opportunity in 47 when Jinnah ordered C-in-C to invade Kashmir which he refused to obey - We wasted the opportunity in 62 - Then again in 65.
Showing timidness and passive-ness never worked.
History always favor the bold.
We intervened throughout the 90s.
Turned the vale into a quagmire for Indian forces. Trapping 0.7 million of them in counter-insurgency role hence shifting the strategic balance in our favor apart from inflicting a cost of occupation and internationalization of Kashmir issue.
No one is asking your highness to go to war. But to amend your current policy of appeasement.
As far as India is concerned, it has been grabbed by the ear and thrown out of Afghanistan. All what it could do to Baluchistan or Karachi, it cannot repeat. We already have upper hand in Afghanistan.
You think the current breed of generals are bold enough to undo past? I don't think so.......