The most surprising aspect of India’s cross-border strike that wiped out seven terror posts in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir was that it caught the Pakistan military napping!
A military that had made much of being on full alert was unable to detect Indian helicopters crossing the airspace over Line of Control and para-dropping its Special Forces into PoK.
Is this another Abbottabad, when US Special Forces raided and bombed Al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden’s lair? Either way, former military generals have said India must take the midnight cross-border raids to its logical conclusion and take over Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and destroy all terror camps that are the staging posts for attacks on Indian civilian and military targets.
“We should take over Gilgit and Baltistan where the population is anyway more sympathetic to India, after the ethnic cleansing of the local populace who are mainly Shias and Ismailis,” said a general who served in J&K and admitted to leading several cross-border raids on militant targets.
“They weren’t special forces, just the infantry. But every time Pakistan killed one of ours, we went in and took out two of theirs. The top brass never acknowledged it, but that’s the way it was.”
