Myth about winning 1965 War

[Jolie]

Re: Myth about winning 1965 War

@Sachaydino

I am not talking about this. There should have been no war at all which could have saved Pakistan’s economy, many lives and perhaps avoidance of breakup in 1971. I have yet see if any one has challenged the guy who was talking about defeat in 1965. If you think he is lying than prove it.

Excuse me? The onus is on him to prove how Pakistan “terribly” lost the War, and argue against the narrative with FACTS and EVIDENCE. Making an inflammatory trollish comment doe not qualify as ‘history’ or truth.

I hope you and that academic (more like parchi academic) know how ‘terribly’ losing a war looks like. It might resemble something like America losing Vietnam? Germany losing the WWII? Or Japan getting nuclear attacked? Now I hope you and others know the definition of ‘terrible defeats’.

But first of all - get this fact straight - Gibraltar was a disputed territory not an international border!

Yes Pakistan did not lose or lost terribly for the following reason:

• No major territory from Pakistan was captured by the enemy despite Indian’s Army numeric strength

• Attack on Lahore was repulsed which Indians had originally planned to invade. If Pakistani saved its cities, villages and towns from being captured, then how can that be qualified as ‘terrible’ loss?

• Indians left their tanks and equipment behind on different locations. So clearly they could not advance.

• Staggering performance of PAF and Pakistan’s air supremacy to drive the Indians back.

• The war only lasting 6 months, if India was winning, why did it not carry on fighting to exhaust much smaller Pakistan Army and make advances in Lahore and Sialkot and capture parts of rural Punjab? Why did India came to talks in Tashkent if she was winning so superbly and Pakistan losing ‘terribly’?

At worst, the war was drawn with Pakistan being the weaker and smaller side successfully defending itself and India falling way short of achieving its original aims. So how exactly how you say Pakistan lost the war ‘terribly’? They failed to capture Amritsar?

As with human and economic losses, they occurred on both sides. Such is the nature of the War. Don’t bother coming with the rhetoric that there should no war blah blah blah. Despite facing humiliating defeat in Vietnam, your host country the Great America still went into Iraq and Afghanistan, and lost again! So don’t use any ideal wishy washy romantic retorts to make any lame digs at Pak Army. Wars are unfortunate, they shouldn’t happen but they do break out! Your Zulfi Bhutto was really excited about war, and often remembered as one of the chief strategists!

We should indeed advocate peace without compromising the dignity of our national institution.