Re: Myth about winning 1965 War
OK..we have over 200 posts on this topic and i feel we are going in circles..so lets summarize few points
i don’t think there is much debate that Indians crossed the international border in 1965 for a reason and we Pakistanis provided them that reason…they obviously didnt do it just for fun.
Many military generals on our side have since accepted in interviews and in different books that after culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and aug 1965 in kashmir, Pak army decided to start military operation called gibratar on 5 August 1965 but without much preparation and that operation didnt go as well as we thought.
Major General Akhtar Hussain *Malik *and BHutto are widely regarded as father of those kashmir operations..and yes sir, Bhutto as foreign minister of pakistan is widely reported to be equally responsible for those operations. Pls poora sach bolo
Now kashmir was not an international border and our strategists and bhutto thought that in response indians would never cross the international border at lahore and sialkot…so basically they underestimated the enemy. and we all know that in war never underestimate your army. we made the same mistake in kargil where we underestimated indians response
So up-till this point, Yes, operation gibraltar was an unmitigated disaster from beginning to end and we did not achieve anything out of it **(if someone thinks differently about operation gibraltar, please let us know why)
when 1965 war started in September**, **no mentioning of this war would be complete without paying tribute to the great fighting spirit and unparalleled heroism of all ranks of the Pakistan Army, Navy and Air Force and notably of the SSG. In the war of 1965 into which the country stumbled surprisingly without any preparation, the Ghazis of the army, janbaz of the SSG, Shaheens of our Air force and Barbaroosas’ of Pak Navy fought bravely against a much bigger enemy and absolutely drew an honorable draw and we salute their bravery.
**so why are we mixing points 1) and 2) with point 4)? why cant we accept that operation Gibraltar was a disaster and we did not achieve anything out of it but why cant we accept as well that our armed forces fought bravely in 1965 war and saved the country from enemy?
where is the confusion?
Yes poora ka poora such but not kharra such like Mubashir Lucman either! That guy is a sensationalist like the vast majority of TV anchors today
Unfortunately we human-beings are very much influenced in our way of thinking by our environment, things we learn from our parents (their prejudiced views about others!), our life experiences and our personal likes and dislikes. So one historian’s (however eminent) account may not necessarily be the only truth. You have to read 2 or three different accounts to be able to arrive at an ‘objective’ conclusion/to make a sane judgement.