Our Correspondent
Mirpur (AJK)
The Azad Jammu and Kashmir President, Sardar Masood Khan has said standoff in Ladakh has not only further internationalized Kashmir issue but also exposed spinelessness of the Indian army.
‘This new development with China has exposed India’s cowardice. Even before this clash with China, its Army Chief had said that they do not want a two-front scenario because this would challenge their military,’ the President said in an interview with an English language journal, said in news release issued here on Friday evening.
Masood said that the Indian government had started appealing the diplomats on the very first day to come forward, and save India from a situation in which it may plunge into war with two hostile neighboring countries that is Pakistan and China. The AJK president said that when India had repealed two articles of its constitution related to Kashmir last year, China had not only opposed it, but it had also taken the Kashmir issue to the UN Security Council.
‘What is interesting is that when China opposed the revocation of Article370 and 35A last year, it took this huge step of taking the Kashmir issue to the Security Council. So you see this diplomatic alignment between China and Pakistan. It’s very visible, and it riled India, and it surprised many of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.,’ he added.
Sardar Masood Khan asserted that now that China had taken decisive action against Indian army at the Line of Actual Control (LOAC), you see the potential military alignment between China and Pakistan scares India. ‘The Indian Army whose history is full of repression against the defenseless people of Kashmir, Assam and the Indian Punjab, cannot fight on two-fronts war because it has never fought a war and are not battle-hardened.,’ he added.
When asked that China also has never fought any war in recent past, the AJK president said that China would not fight a war with India. Because it does not consider India to be equal, also as Sun Tzu said: you should win a war without fighting and this is what China is doing in Ladakh today. When asked to comment on the claim of prominent Indian analyst Pravin Sawhney that Pakistani and the Chinese militaries have developed inter-operability in the sense that they have a greater ability to work together, Sardar Masood Khan said that both armies have done joint exercises inside China and Pakistan and they know that the Indian command and control structure is weak.
