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| COMFED commemorates 50 years of 1965 War | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 25: Commemorating 'The Heroes of 1965 War', Communication for Education and Development (COMFED) in collaboration with Indian Army organised an interactive session here on Monday.
DC Jammu Simrandeep Singh was the Chief Guest on the occasion.
COMFED is running a two-month long campaign 'Thank You Heroes'. The 22-day war between India and Pakistan in 1965 took place in August -September and was mainly fought in Jammu and Kashmir as well as in Punjab.
However, many significant aspects of the war have either been forgotten or are not known to Indian citizens of today. But Nations cannot afford to forget history. Many lessons are learnt from such episodes in our journey since 1947 as an independent country.
To commemorate this momentous event many activities have been planned by the Government of India as well as the Army.
Speakers while addressing the interactive session said that according to historians Prasad and Thapliyal, India captured 1920 Sq Km of Pakistani territory while losing control over 540 sq km of its own land. According to then Defence Minister Y.B Chavan's statement in Rajya Sabha, 2,862 Indian soldiers were killed while Pakistan lost 5,800 soldiers although Pakistan puts the figure of killed at 1,033.
"The biggest loss for Pakistan was however the destruction of its much feared armour. Laced with the latest M-47 and M-48 Patton tanks, Pakistan's 1 Armoured Division was seen to be an invincible force at the start of the war. By the time war ended on 22 September, the Pakistani armour, despite its superior tanks, was destroyed by the less fancied Indian tanks of World War II vintage and the indomitable infantry. Over 450 Pakistani tanks were either completely destroyed or captured by the Indian Army", the speakers further divulged.
They said that the first objective of Pakistan was to liberate Kashmir from Indian control. Operation Gibraltar was aimed at precisely that. Bhutto had prevailed over the military and forced it to adopt a plan that was premised on a faulty assumption that the Kashmiri people would rise up in revolt. The second wrong assumption was the mixed force of Mujahids and regulars would be able to stand up to the Indian army's counter-measure. "The Kashmiris did not rebel and the Indian Army, despite its relatively low strength in the Kashmir valley managed to neutralise the infiltrators with substantial help from the locals. Pakistan's first strategic objective thus stood defeated", they maintained.
They further said that fifty years after, it is clear that India not only thwarted the Pakistani designs but also inflicted unacceptable losses on the Pakistani military triggering many changes within that country's politico-military structure. |
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