Even as the tension remains high on the LOC between India and Pakistan after the Pulwama terror attack and the ensuing cross-border engagements, a new report in Pakistan claims that New Delhi is prepared to launch another strike against Pakistan.
The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) met on Tuesday to discuss the future strategy on Pakistan. It said during the meeting National Security Adviser Ajit Doval informed Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the three forces—Air Force, Army and Navy—were ready for any action against Pakistan and that they were only waiting for a political sanction. Now this is certainly the bunkum part of the report.
The Army or the Navy or the AirForce will never never discuss the operational plans with anyone, not even the CCS and certainly not the NSA.
At the CCS meeting the Chiefs when invited will talk only about strategy. For defence strategic matters, certainly NSA is not a conduit or a messenger between the CCS and the Chief of Staff Committee.
Also who is the secret agent who is leaking the discussions of the CCS. Since the matter has been reported in Paki papers first, then either it is a figment of their imagination or they are terrified.
According to the report, Modi assured a free hand to the forces while urging them to ensure that no civilian was killed in the attack and that the targets should be military-related.
During the CCS meeting, it was agreed that not only Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, the target can also be inside Pakistan, the report claimed.
The tension between the two neighbours escalated after the Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group orchestrated a suicide attack on a CRPF convoy at Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir on February 14, killing 40 Jawans.
India calling the oft repeated nuclear bluff if Pakistan retaliated after 12 days as a fleet of the IAF fighter jets crossed the border and pounded a major training camp of the terror outfit at Balakot.
In order to save face in front of the people of Pakistan, the Pakis after the Balakot strike, sent the PAF fighters to carry out a strike inside India. The PAF strike was intercepted which resulted in the loss of a F16 fighter jet of PAF and a vintage MIG 21 of the IAF.
It also resulted in brief detention of IAF Wing Commander Abhinadan Varthaman who had to parachute inside POK, by Pakistan Army. The IAF proclaimed loud and clear that Varthaman had shot down an F-16 jet of Pakistan before ejecting from his crashing MiG-21 Bison jet.
Soon two senior US UNKNOWN Officials rejected India’s claim that it had shot down an F-16 jet during the dogfight. The officials who later turned out to be just journalists of some obscure magazine the Foreign Policy journal that the US personnel recently counted Islamabad’s F-16s and found none missing……it seems due to loss of their vaunted F16, Americans have forgotten to count also.
The report about India’s preparation for another strike on Pakistan comes days ahead of the general elections in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is assured for a return second term.
The upswing of the national mood due to the Balakot strike and India’s successful anti-satellite missile test has not only shocked all those who oppose India but has also made the Indian opposition political leaders very jittery. They are even trying to accuse the government on these issues.
