Kargil 20: India failed to exact a price from Pakistan

July 26, 2019 10:13

"The Indian response in confining our action to our side of the LoC set a dangerous precedent.

"At any future date if Pakistan were to try an intrusion similarly, the world will expect India to observe similar restraint. This gave Pakistan the opportunity to bleed India to death.India failed to extract a 'price' from Pakistan for its Kargil misadventure.

"The price could be military in terms of loss of territory/soldiers/equipment or destruction of terrorist training infrastructure.

"The economic cost could have been in terms of lost loans and grants while the psychological cost could have been in terms of humiliation at the international level.

"Giving a 'face-saving' option to Pakistan, besides being a betrayal of the sacrifices of jawans, also proved disastrous for the future."

Read the column by Colonel Anil A Athale (retd) here.

IMAGE: Then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee along with then defence minister George Fernandes, crouching, third from left, then Jammu and Kashmir governor Girish Chandra 'Gary' Saxena, standing second from left, and then army chief General Ved Prakash Malik, fourth from right, with the troops in Kargil. Photograph: Rediff.com

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