INDO-PAK WAR OF 1965

INDIA –PAK WAR OF 1965 Narendra Modi is celebrating the victory of the war of 1965 on a grand scale , this being the fiftieth anniversary . Our Prime Minister was Lal Bahadur Shastri , the greatest and most honest PM , WHO , OWNING MORAL RESPONSIBILITY AS Railway Minister , RESIGNED , FOLLOWING Ariyalur tragedy in which two bogies of the train fell into the river. The war was planned and executed with remarkable success by Pakistan. Thousands of Pak soldiers crossed the border in Kashmir and Jammu. Our cities were bombarded by them . We were taken by surprise and had to withdraw . The Generals hit upon the idea of counter attack in Punjab and crossed the border and advanced towards Lahore . The farmers there saw the march of the army and informed the Police. What saved them , was the Ichogil canal , built by their experts for stopping such march. Our Generals failed to take note of it and did not carry necessary equipment to cross it. Pressure mounted on our Government , by the US ,UNO and Russia , to stop war and sign cease fire agreement . Shasthri went to Tashkent in Russia to sign the treaty. He was so much affected morally that he had a heart attack and he died there . The body was brought to India. I wonder what is there to celebrate. A victory worth remembering is the war of 1971 when Pakistan was humiliated and lost Bengal . It was Indira Gandhi who led India and Atal Behari Vajpai called her the avtar of Durga! Shasthri’s soul must have enjoyed the victory . It was he who brought Indira into his cabinet! Do you find any statue of Shastri? The irony is that ex-servicemen are still fighting for ‘one rank one pension’ ; some are on hunger strike till death.