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We reported the troop movement in and around the third week of December. Much of it did not get noticed, because the troop movements were slow and steady. In addition Pakistan also moved troops under the cover of a pre announced “military exercise”. there is a brave face on this from Delhi, but actually Delhi is under tremendous pressure by the US and the UK to lay off Pakistan and entangle it any confrontation which would distract the Pakistan army from Afghanistan.
Gen Kapoor says there is no need to “whip up war hysteria”
The head of the Indian army says it has noted that Pakistan had moved some troops to its border with India in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.
Gen Deepak Kapoor acknowledged that there had been an increase in tension.
He said that Delhi was keeping all its options open but that military action would be the last resort.
Delhi believes the Mumbai attacks that killed more than 170 people were planned and executed from Pakistani soil. Islamabad denies involvement.
No state of alert
Addressing a news conference in the Indian capital Gen Kapoor said that Pakistan had moved some troops from the federally administered tribal areas along the Afghan frontier to its eastern border with India.
He said India’s military chiefs had factored this as part of its operational planning and so there was no need to, as he put it, “whip up war hysteria”.
Gen Kapoor said the Indian army was ready to meet any challenge, but had not declared a state of alert.
He said that while India was keeping all options open with regard to Pakistan, a military response was the last resort and one that would only be decided by the country’s political leaders. India ‘notes Pakistan troop move’ By Sanjoy Majumder BBC News, Delhi
NATO and ISAF know that if the Pakistan army is removed from the Durand line, they will have to put up more than 120,000 soldiers which they do not have. the US, NATo and ISAF have lost control of 75% of the area in Afghanistan. Now they face imminent defeat in Kabul.
Bharat is not on the priority list of either the US or the UK. Afghanistan is. NATO has suffered its first defeat–it has been announced, analyzed and digested.
