Surgical strikes: Convincing the unconvinced.

Byline: Dr Muhammad Khan

While reiterating, what has not happened, Indian Army Chief, General Bipin Rawat is trying to convince the sceptical, unconvinced and inquisitive media people, the intellectuals and even retired army officers that, surgical strikes did happen on September 28, 2016 in AJK areas. Not only that these surgical strikes really took place, the Indian Army Chief is in his frequent media interactions, trying to convince the audience that, if need be, there will be more surgical strikes across the Line of Control (LoC). As per General Rawat, 'Indian Army will not shy away from a second surgical strike if peace in the region is disrupted.' Had there been something on ground, Indian Army could have launched many more attacks by now.

Indian media, its intelligencia and even political clout have lot of apprehensions whether there were surgical strikes on September 28, 2016? These doubts and apprehension further cemented once Pakistani ISPR took the Pakistani and international media persons to those sites, which Indian Army claimed were targeted. There were no signs of any surgical strikes and biggest question was what about those, targeted by Indian commandos, there...