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| India: Army 'prepared' for strikes against Pakistan |
| 2009-02-11 |
| (AKI/Asian Age) - Indian army chief General Deepak Kapoor said surgical strikes against terror targets in Pakistan were a "feasible" option after the Mumbai terror attacks. "Surgical strikes are definitely feasible but whether you wish to take that decision or not is a separate issue," Kapoor said on Sunday. "Whether you would like to look at doing it (carrying out such strikes) by air or artillery or by another means or physically there," he said. He said that the armed forces were ready for such strikes if political leaders gave the order. Kapoor's comments are likely to provoke further tension between Pakistan and India. "We are an army which has been involved in operations in Kashmir and Northern Command on a perpetual and on-going basis. Therefore, the question of not being ready is, frankly, not relevant. And we would have been fully ready to do our task," he said. "The peaceful diplomatic course adopted by the Indian government so far seems to have provided stimuli to the Pakistan government to act against the terror infrastructure and help bring the guilty to book." He said that after the Mumbai attack, no deployment of additional troops had taken place on the border. "However, we are maintaining our utmost vigil and closely monitoring the situation. Our current posture allows us to achieve full operational readiness at short notice," he stated. During a wide-ranging interview, the Kapoor also sought to dispel the impression that there was no clarity about the nuclear command when prime minister Manmohan Singh was hospitalised for heart surgery last month. "As far as the army is concerned, there is a clarity on the nuclear command issue and there was no confusion on the issue," he added. Relations between India and Pakistan have been under renewed strain since the terror attacks that targeted two luxury hotels and other city landmarks in the Indian city of Mumbai last November. A total of 173 people died and hundreds of others were injured. One gunman survived and Islamabad admitted this month he is a Pakistani citizen. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 We send you a few experts on this type of surgery and you send us Aishwarya Rai, deal? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-02-11 08:49 |