The parts in bold maybe some shocking news to our Indian friends. Though and old article, but things dont change much in a few months when it comes to military superiority. The missile tech achievement is a guarantor of Pak’s national sovereignty and provides a credible deterrence vis-a-vis the hegemonic Indian designs.
From * Times Of India*
**India has thin edge over Pak militarily **
ALOKE BANERJEE
TIMES NEWS NETWORK THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2002 11:25:25 PM ]
KOLKATA: At least a month before the Indo-Pak war crescendo reached its peak, the Indian military high command had reportedly told the parliamentary standing committee on defence that the country had only a wafer-thin edge over its enemy in terms of military capabilities and that it would be unwise to go to war against Pakistan.
**A prominent member of the defence standing committee told TNN on Wednesday that in separate presentations in April, the Army, Navy and the Airforce had reported that India’s superiority over Pakistan’s military was barely 1 : 1.2 and India’s superiority had come down from the level of 1 : 1.7 which it had during the 1971 war. **
The committee member, who agreed to talk to TNN only after de-escalation of tension between the two countries began, claimed that irrespective of its hard posturing, at no point in time had the Centre taken any decision to go to war. Its sole objective had been to draw the attention of the international community and to mount pressure on Pakistan, he claimed.
The military headquarters had in fact observed that Pakistan had superior capabilities in several areas, specially in the field of missiles, the committee member claimed. All the major cities in India are within the reach of Pak missiles and number of strategic targets as well as number of people likely to be affected are much larger than those in Pakistan.
The military headquarters had also informed the defence standing committee that ever since the troop mobilisation along the Indo-Pak border reached its peak, the military was incurring a daily expenditure of Rs 60-70 crore. Also, since the December 13 terrorist strike against the Indian parliament, the total expenditure incurred by the military was a whopping Rs 4000 crore.
Standing committee members were also told that given the ground realities, a short surgical strike, either against terrorist camps in Pak occupied Kashmir or against strategic targets in Pakistan, was not possible. The war was bound to be a prolonged one unless interrupted by a nuclear strike or heavy international pressure, representatives of the Army, Navy and Airforce reportedly said.
. Btw FBI, US ARMY , Entire Pakistan Army can’t stop some afghan Infiltrators - Wonder what is pakistan govt feeding its soldiers 