The General who protects India's most critical border!
Lieutenant General K T Parnaik, the third highest ranking officer in the Indian Army, is responsible for guarding 1,896 kilometres of India's border with Pakistan and China.
Interview part II
“The idea of azaadi should be converted into the idea of integrity'
--We need to beat the nexus of the Pak Army, the ISI and secessionists. This nexus works with a strategy that Pakistan is a two nation theory. The ideology is that J&K is bounded with Pakistan, so our entire effort today has to be to dismantle this theory of secessionism and bring them to a theory of the understanding of integrity.
We are trying to do this through Sadhbhawna projects, and apart from that through perception management. There is a lot of disinformation about us that we are an occupational army, have indulged in human rights abuses, but these are incorrect, we have the best record in the world as far as human rights are concerned.
We have been fighting insurgency for 20, 30 years, but never used a heavy weapon, tanks, aircraft or artillery against our people. Compare it with other insurgencies and that speaks volumes of the efforts of the Indian Armed forces.
I am so happy we have been able to do this without all this. Today Western countries are learning from us, they come here to train with us.
The violence parameters are down, we can rejoice and say that peace has come, but maybe it is too early to start celebrating. What we need to do as part of perception management is that we need to cut the few straws that still connect the external abetment to some sections of society.
How can we do it? Their funding must be choked -- all illegal funding, hawala, drug money, transfers etc. When funding was choked, even a staunch and strong organisation like the LTTE collapsed and this is not even 1/100th of what the LTTE was.
If funding is choked, there is no future. There will be no stone pelters who will come without money.
Along with this, if communication is choked -- VOIP, GPRS, Thuraya sets, satellite phones -- and surrendered/arrested militants are ploughed back into society after reintegration, then the connect from outside will be broken.
As much as Pakistan may try, it will not succeed. You don't need the army for doing all this, but till that happens, we are required and we are quite sure we are required.
To be Continued…
Lieutenant General K T Parnaik, the third highest ranking officer in the Indian Army, is responsible for guarding 1,896 kilometres of India's border with Pakistan and China.
Interview part II
“The idea of azaadi should be converted into the idea of integrity'
--We need to beat the nexus of the Pak Army, the ISI and secessionists. This nexus works with a strategy that Pakistan is a two nation theory. The ideology is that J&K is bounded with Pakistan, so our entire effort today has to be to dismantle this theory of secessionism and bring them to a theory of the understanding of integrity.
We are trying to do this through Sadhbhawna projects, and apart from that through perception management. There is a lot of disinformation about us that we are an occupational army, have indulged in human rights abuses, but these are incorrect, we have the best record in the world as far as human rights are concerned.
We have been fighting insurgency for 20, 30 years, but never used a heavy weapon, tanks, aircraft or artillery against our people. Compare it with other insurgencies and that speaks volumes of the efforts of the Indian Armed forces.
I am so happy we have been able to do this without all this. Today Western countries are learning from us, they come here to train with us.
The violence parameters are down, we can rejoice and say that peace has come, but maybe it is too early to start celebrating. What we need to do as part of perception management is that we need to cut the few straws that still connect the external abetment to some sections of society.
How can we do it? Their funding must be choked -- all illegal funding, hawala, drug money, transfers etc. When funding was choked, even a staunch and strong organisation like the LTTE collapsed and this is not even 1/100th of what the LTTE was.
If funding is choked, there is no future. There will be no stone pelters who will come without money.
Along with this, if communication is choked -- VOIP, GPRS, Thuraya sets, satellite phones -- and surrendered/arrested militants are ploughed back into society after reintegration, then the connect from outside will be broken.
As much as Pakistan may try, it will not succeed. You don't need the army for doing all this, but till that happens, we are required and we are quite sure we are required.
To be Continued…
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