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'Time to strike again': Ex-Air Force chief Arup Raha cites Uri, Balakot as precedent
4/25/2025 10:49:39 PM

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KOLKATA, Apr 25: Former Chief of Air Staff Arup Raha has advocated for a military offensive against 'Pakistan-sponsored terrorists' in the wake of the Pahalgam bloodbath, asserting that India has shattered the 'myth' that two nuclear powers cannot engage in conventional warfare, citing strikes after the Uri and Pulwama attacks.
Referring to the Army's retaliatory surgical strikes on militant launch pads in Pakistan-administered Kashmir following the Uri attack, and the subsequent Balakot air strike after the Pulwama convoy bombing, the retired Air Chief Marshal said India has "done well in the past in punishing perpetrators of terror." "It's imperative that the Indian armed establishment repeats those counter-offensives so that our enemies know who they are dealing with. This is the need of the hour," Raha told PTI.
"The how and when of such operations is something that I am no longer in a position to spell out. But I can say this: we have done it before at Balakot and Uri. We are used to (doing) it and we can do it again. India has already busted the myth that one nuclear-powered country cannot use military force on another," he added.
Raha made the remark a day after India downgraded diplomatic ties with Pakistan, expelled Pakistani defence advisors and visa-holding citizens from the country, sealed the Attari integrated check post and suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty in response to the dastardly terror attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir where at least 26 civilians, mostly tourists, were gunned down in front of their families.
"That country suffered the ignominy of surrendering 93,000 prisoners of war as a result of its 1971 misdeeds. The nation is now in doldrums and is extending its begging bowl to virtually every country that would help. And in times like these, the Pakistani military is seeking revival by promoting such acts of terror," Raha said.
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