| Pak never owns its nationals killed in Kashmir, India stood by its airman | | Visible Difference | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 2: After the MIG 21, which shot down Pakistani fighter plane, crashed on the other side of the Line of Control (LoC), the pilot of that aircraft Wing Commander Abhinandan got trapped on the other side. Just within a few hours after Abhinandan was taken captive, Indian government stood up and owned its man and cautioned Pakistan that they should treat him with dignity.
An analyst while talking to Early Times said, "Difference between India and Pakistan is clearly visible. Whenever any terrorist, who is a Pakistani national, is killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir or is arrested, Pakistan never owns him. In fact Pakistan did not even own its soldiers who were killed during Kargil war. It took 11-years for Pakistan to acknowledge that its soldiers were killed during that war."
He said, "Even during the Kargil war entire India stood with the families of martyrs and provided them with all possible support."
In the 1999 Kargil War, Pakistan had denied its troops were involved - leading to protests in Pakistan's northern areas. Eleven years after the Kargil War, Pakistan's army officially acknowledged its role, naming 453 soldiers and officers killed in the 1999 conflict. Captain Karnal Sher and Havildar Lalak Jan, who were both killed on 7 July, 1999, were awarded Pakistan's highest honour, the Nishan-e-Haider, but were not acknowledged as Kargil war casualties until November 2010.
The analyst said that two nephews of JeM chief Azhar Masood were shot dead by the security forces in Kashmir but Pakistan did not own them. "Pakistan has been fighting a proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir for the past 30-years during all these years thousands of Pakistani terrorists have been killed on the Indian soil. But they have been simply disowned by their own country," the analyst added.
According to a news report on the day when Abhinandan walked across the India-Pakistan border on 1 March, a family in Pakistan was in mourning as their sacrifice remained unacknowledged. "Pakistan Air Force Wing Commander Shahaz-ud-Din, the F-16 pilot shot down in a dogfight over the Nowshera sector was reportedly lynched by a mob who mistook him for an Indian airman," First Post reported.
Shahaz-ud-Din's father, Waseem-ud-Din, is also an Air Marshal of the Pakistan Air Force, who has flown F-16 and Mirages.
A defence analyst said, "It's high time for Pakistan to come forward and acknowledge the mistakes it has committed in the past. It should accept that it has been bleeding India for the past thirty years and has been fighting a proxy war in J&K. It needs to acknowledge that its nationals have been killed in India during all these years." |
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