Seems like Indian Army Chief is also fond of reading fiction stories from his childhood; his fondness has been now transferred to action movies of Bollywood. Perhaps that is why in the last years of his military life his conversation is also full of fiction. The interest of Indian COAS towards fiction was expressed in his recent address to journalists while he was returning back from Srinagar. He said that Indian army has thwarted another Kargil attack by Pakistan army. He was talking about the skirmish between Kashmiris Freedom Fighters (Mujahideen) and Indian army in Karan Sector since 24 September 2013.
General Bikram Singh was of the view that it is impossible for terrorists to enter into Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) without support of Pakistan army and attack over Karan Sector was an attempt to create a Kargil like situation by Pakistan which has been thwarted by Indian army. Afterwards during his interview to NDTV he blamed Pakistan army and ISI for the interference and repeated his old stance that without support from Pakistan army it is impossible for the terrorists to cross Line of Control (LoC).
After departure of Indian Army Chief, Commander of 15 Corps Lt General Gourmat Singh addressed press conference and told the journalists that a letter has been recovered from the pocket of a militant killed in Karan Sector which shows that Pakistan army is itself involved in crossing LoC. The details of the letter told by the Indian Commander were that letter was written by Havaldar of 645 Unit to his brother in which he asked for help from his Kashmiri supporter.
During the briefing a Pakistani ID card was shown after enlarging it and journalists were told that it was been recovered from the militants killed by Indian army.
Indian Foreign Ministry as a reaction on briefing by 15 Corps Commander said that Pakistan army was behind the infiltration of militants in Karan sector. Under the circumstances neither can Pakistan hope for improvement in situation nor hope for negotiations. The whole story seems to be fiction or a drama.
In the end I would like to ask a question from Indian Army Chief that according to him Infiltrators could not enter into IOK without support from Pakistan Army, so would he like to disclose details of the support terrorists are receiving.
SHER MUHAMMAD KHAN,
Multan, October 21.