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| Cong ditched nation to allow Pak to annex PoJK | | Air Chief Marshal's plain-speaking | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 2: Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha on Thursday did some plain-speaking on the circumstances under which Pakistan occupied our PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan and accused the Congress of allowing Pakistan to occupy our territories. He didn't name the Congress; he only referred to the period: 1947-1971. This was the period when the Congress was at the helm in Delhi.
Raha claimed that had the government of the time given a freehand to the Air Force, PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan would have been in India, and not in Pakistan. "Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir would have been India's, had the country gone for a military solution rather than taking a moral high ground," he asserted in New Delhi while speaking in a seminar. He added that "air power was not fully utilised by the Indian Government till the 1971 India-Pakistan war".
Air Chief Marshal Raha also disapproved of the New Delhi's decision to take the Kashmir issue to the United Nations and said that it didn't help India. He said the government took this decision at a time when the armed forces were about to evict the Pakistani intruders. "At that time we (Congress) went to the United Nations for a peaceful solution. But the problem persists and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir remains a thorn in our flesh even today," he said.
He asserted that it was only in 1971 that New Delhi made full use of the Air Force and the result was India won a splendid victory over Pakistan. Referring to the post-1947 period -- when "hordes of raiders, supported by the Pakistan government and military tried to overrun Jammu and Kashmir --, Raha said "it was IAF's transport planes that had helped soldiers and equipment to reach the battleground".
"We have been reluctant in use of power, specially aerospace power. Air power in deterring our adversaries, or deterring a conflict and when involved in a conflict, which we have been drawn into several times in the past, we did not apply ourselves adequately in achieving the end state after the conflict," the IAF Chief further said.
He made another very significant statement, which read: "India's security environment has been vitiated and that aerospace power would be required to deter a conflict in the region as well as ensure peace. We have been governed by high ideals and we did not follow a very pragmatic approach, to my mind, to security needs. To that extent, we did ignore the role of the military power to maintain conducive environment".
Indeed, what Air Chief Marshal said was a scathing attack on the Congress and its military policy. Let's hope the present dispensation learn from what he said and give the Army, the Air Force and the Navy a freehand to bring Pakistan to India's knees. |
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