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Pakistan capable of giving 'befitting' reply to Indian aggression: Army chief

Army chief says countrymen need not worry about provocative Indian statements

Web Desk June 04, 2015

PHOTO: ISPR

ISLAMABAD: Army chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday said the country is capable of responding to all forms of aggression from India, Express News reported.

“We know how to respond befittingly to any aggression from India,” the army chief said, adding that there is no need to worry about anything that India says.

Talking to journalists after the joint session of Parliament, the army chief said the law and order situation of the country would continue to improve. The statement comes a day after the army chief said Kashmir and Pakistan are inseparable.

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On Wednesday, the army chief described the festering dispute over the Himalayan region as an ‘unfinished agenda’ of the 1947 partition in a strong rejoinder to a flurry of provocative statements emanating from India.

“While we wish peace and stability in the region, we want Kashmir’s just resolution in light of the UN resolutions and as per the aspirations of the Kashmiris to bring lasting peace in the region,” Gen Raheel said in a speech at the National Defence University in Islamabad.

His statement came against the backdrop of rising tensions between the two nuclear-armed arch-nemeses as a result of the recent controversial statements by Indian cabinet ministers and officials.

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The public admission by Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar that New Delhi would ‘neutralise terrorists through terrorists’ has particularly prompted strong reaction from Islamabad. The army chief also joined civilian leaders to hit back at India saying that they would not allow ‘proxies’ by other countries to destabilise Pakistan.

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“While our enemies are supporting terrorism to stoke sub-conventional conflicts and destabilise our country, we are fully determined and capable of defeating their nefarious designs,” he was quoted as saying by the military’s media wing, the ISPR.

COMMENTS (78)

A Peshawary | 9 years ago | Reply @Dan: @Tony Singh: You Indian were never the told real stories by your leaders and media. AJK was won in a war during 48; in 65 Ferozpur railway station and Khaim Karan were conquered by Pakistan. The Indian general,s dream of having victory toast in Lahore was befittingly tarnished by a brave army. You Indian were never taught history correctly. East Pakistan was a different story the War was not won by Indian but by brave East Pakistanis against a corrupt and incompetent government where as the Indian army manipulated the situation as these cowards could not dare to cross into West Pakistan. Do not forget the response you are continuously getting on the LOC on daily basis. A Peshawary

Insaaf | 9 years ago | Reply Yay !!! lets buy more American/Chinese weapons and support their economies while we destroy the future of our children. I fully support military and armies. We dont need a future, we need more weapons!

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Kam | 9 years ago | Reply @ Dan You judge military campaigns by taking into consideration numbers and equipment. If you are attacked by 4 people of your size and you run home instead of ending up in morgue or hospital you will still be a victor. A small country with small resources and armed forces will always be a victor if it survives a war against a 6 times bigger enemy. Why all people who judge Pakistans war efforts forget this vital aspect.

straightshooter | 9 years ago | Reply @Talking Point: 'Ask your general to get treated for paranoia". The Indian volume of comments & recs is an utter and complete proof that his words have given the desired effect. I would urge that next time perhaps, Indian state machinery would be more prudent in their choice of words.......but I'm not begging for it.

nishikant | 9 years ago | Reply this is first time i am visiting pakistan tribune, i am very much surprised, pakistan people are comparing themselves with indians, a supporter of international terrorism, surviving on aid from US and China, in addition to above to all they are thinking of befitting reply.pakistan people dont even knew history completely.

Dilip | 9 years ago | Reply Talk is cheap! Both sides are full of rhetoric. That is all what they can do while millions of their people in both countries live in poverty and will keep on living in poverty. Those full mouths will keep on fighting with the mouth while disregarding the poor. Can you imagine the amount of money that is spent on weapons of destruction? If only the very same money is spent for education and health services, both the countries will eradicate poverty in the next 30 years. Will that dream be ever realised? No! Thirty years down the line we will still be fighting poverty and the rhetoric will still be the same. As long as the people in high positions live in their comfort zones, the poor will remain poor and the rich will keep on trampling on the poor. Good luck to Pakistan and India.

drr | 9 years ago | Reply if you r confident of giving a befitting reply,why dont you declare no first use of nuclear weapons like india did.

Appan | 9 years ago | Reply Hi everyone. please clap. Our General is providing a comic relief. Is he trying to become a politician? We all know that his "befitting" replies will be only on paper. If it really translates into action, we will lose whatever is left with Pakistani army. Will someone ask this man to shut up? The country shall have some sensible person as General

Gp65 | 9 years ago | Reply @hamza khan: In 1948, Pakistan attacked Kashmir and was close to Srinagar. Indian army was not involved at that point. When the Maharajah signed instrument of accession, Indian army got involved and started pushing Pakistan back. If Nehru had not foolishly gone to UN, Indian army would have reclaimed Kashmir. You call that victory? In 1965 Pakistan attacked and despite the advantage of surprise, Ondia had captured far more Pakistani territory than the reverse. You call that victory? In Kargill your COAS was so scared, he did not even dare to take back the dead soldiers because he was busy denying Pakistani army was involved. Eventually Pakistan announced unilateral ceasefire. You call that victory? And finally you seem to have forgotten Siachen.

Usman | 9 years ago | Reply @Pakistani: Epic

naeemhussain | 9 years ago | Reply Every single war against India Pakistan did not fight against India only but against India, Britain, America, Russia and Israel simultaneously.

rama | 9 years ago | Reply Great general , Could you provide any proof on involvement of India agency in Pakistan not the circumtantial evidence It is ok for navie to talk like school kids not the COAS .

jagmohan | 9 years ago | Reply COMMENTS So far throw more of heat than light.Excessive heat is injurious both to physical and mental health.Surely sanity and peace is the right way.If the Pak.General says something it is allowed there and nothing new in that.Rather it is information to all. History shows wars have never done good to common people,exception liberation of BANGALA DESH,for reasons known to all.Please let us talk of peace only.

aam shehri | 9 years ago | Reply @Dan, How scared are you, please go and study the history from some unbiased resource, you will be amazed when you realized in countless wars your huge army was defeated (if you study only unbiased material not only Wikipedia!!). You should have courage to accept the truth that you are defeated in 1948, 1965, 1999 just like we are accepting that we lose in 1971.

Prada | 9 years ago | Reply Yeah! Just like 65, 71 and Kargil!!

Optimus | 9 years ago | Reply India... bring it... Yes we have lost a few battles... but you stepped on the wrong nerve in testing our resolve. General Shareef>>> ACTIVATE!!!

Jim | 9 years ago | Reply The usual childish statements and puerile responses. The relative merits and status of the two countries are obvious if you take off the blinkers and read the international media and weigh their global engagements. Nothing more be said.

SayWat? | 9 years ago | Reply @Tony Singh: What are you talking about? Those soldiers were protecting East Pakistan until its independence. You guys were there promoting Separation of Bangladesh. You didn't defeat us in any war there. What were you fighting for... by the way? There is your answer! When time came to leave B.D. We had to put arms down to complete independence of the new nation. You were suppose to transfer those soldiers posted in East Pakistan back to Pakistan. It wasn't your war! please enjoy your "Third Greatest" economy of 980million poor!

harkol | 9 years ago | Reply Befitting reply? Like in the past 4 wars Pakistan Army initiated?

Khe | 9 years ago | Reply @Ahmed: Despite being calling India poor rich Pakistani looted khem karan?

Kolsat | 9 years ago | Reply @Dr.M.M. Khan: You are correct in pointing this. In India the Army does the bidding of the Government therefore the general of the Indian Army is never in the paper giving statements. There is a saying old soldiers never die they just fade away. Soldiers should always stay in the background and not in the front.

tariq | 9 years ago | Reply back to the future Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, Major Muhammad Sharif, Major Shabbir Sharif

Unbelievable | 9 years ago | Reply Indian delusions of grandeur are reaching new heights. It's the only country that has a territorial dispute on each of its borders -- so much for a peaceful country. It's a non-Muslim country with a history of hostility towards Muslims -- we all know one aggressor/oppressor that likes India for it. Think "Mughal Empire" and how we all lived in peace and harmony under Muslim rule, and what has happened ever since the British broke it and created current day India.

Singh | 9 years ago | Reply @Aamir: Please can you ask someone to do your proofreading of your comment? Doesn't make any sense.

Zahid | 9 years ago | Reply General Taheel Sharif is only hope we stand with you to save Pakistan Pakistan zindabad

Troll | 9 years ago | Reply @Uber Taxi Wala: Yeah you are right, It's same as Mukhtar mai for which Pakistan is walking with pride. Rapes are most unfortunate tragedy to happen to women. In India it's reported widely. Can you take the same credit. Do you know what google stats say about Pakistan: what sort of search is more common. There is a weird tendency among South Asians the way they perceive women & for sure Pakistanis are no exception (as there is plenty to prove). So please for god sake don't make Rape an "Indian" issue where there was a case in Pakistani media where a local cleric raped a 4 or 5 years girl. Shame on those who counter each others using these stats. Do you know how many rapes occurs in West. Go search the web for Middle East, UAE & others & that will open your eyes.

DH | 9 years ago | Reply After 4 wars between India and Pakistan the result is as follows: Kashmir Valley is still part of India Pakistan split into two segments If this is considered a victory for Pakistan, just imagine what a defeat would look like.

Aamir | 9 years ago | Reply I am proud to be pakistan armed force personell and fighting against india is my part of faith.We will grow higher as nation as 60 to 70 years have no any significance in history of nations. Centuries are needed to build a civilized nation.And i hope pakistanis are still more civilized then indians

Dan | 9 years ago | Reply @Hamza Khan We don't know what is taught in Pakistani Schools. But reading your various comments it is pretty evident that they teach you false history. Everyone in the world knows how India whipped Pakistan in all the 4 wars and how on each occasion you ran to your daddy USA and asked for ceasefire. If you really think that you won all wars except 71 war then what did you achieve in those wars?The ans is NOTHING! J& K is still under our control and Kargil which you tried to occupy is still with India, even Siachen & Sir Creek both are firmly under Indian control. We, Indians can state facts and back our comments what about you Pakistani trolls?

Fakhir | 9 years ago | Reply Now watch the Indians, they will stay quiet for a while. It seems that they need a dose every now and then.

Polwala | 9 years ago | Reply At last we have a General who talks like one of his predecessors in the late 1960s.

hamza khan | 9 years ago | Reply @Talking Point: our moral is fine, its yours that is obviously lacking from repeated daal and veggie dishes. hahahaha

hamza khan | 9 years ago | Reply @Food for thought: indians were soundly defeated in kargil, you can make yourself feel better by telling otherwise, but for 4 months our troops hailed bullets on your 'soldiers' who didnt even come out of their bunkers. hahaha

hamza khan | 9 years ago | Reply @Tony Singh: you must also shudder when the NLI non infantry non commissioned troops were hailing barrages of bullets on your coward soldiers in kargil for 4 months straight. LOL. remember how you had to order more coffins for those cowards? hahahaha

hamza khan | 9 years ago | Reply @jayant: hahaha..you got whipped in 48, in 65, and in kargil. remember that. so maybe more like pakistan 3-1.

Zafar | 9 years ago | Reply Good to see paid Indian trolls here. Such narrow minded and petty people. Atleast we have guts to say and do what we want irrespective of the opponent. The Indians were dwarfed in 1962 and have still not recovered, they have even not recovered from their complexes of pre-partition history. They are suffering from a chronic and eternal emotional insecurity. A dog in his street is behaving like a tiger, which he's not. They relish bullying neighboring nations depicting their false bravado and failed to stand up to nations greater than them like US and China. After all they're been rightly led by Modi - The Bootlicker.

Azi | 9 years ago | Reply Yes, India does not have the courage to attack Pakistan openly. It can only do so in proxies. I remember after 26/11 when India had most reason to take revenge and conduct surgical strikes in Pakistan as it fools its public, it didn't have the nerve to do so. Just recently they also said the same for Kashmir and the next day militants killed 4 of their soldiers.

Abdul Rehman | 9 years ago | Reply @jayant: Hey brother. You are talking about Pakistan. Please go and see what's happening in India where girls are raped and Muslims are banned from their rituals and rightful trade. Just like recently meat trade and slaughter is banned by your so called democratic country. when it comes to fight with Pakistan go and see your media who is afraid of a pigeon and calling that poor bird a spy who even doesn't have a single idea of why is he getting all this attention. I am just replying to this post to tell you that go and see what's happening in your home before pointing out on your neighbors house.

Khan | 9 years ago | Reply I wouldn't be surprised if all these indians here are paid trolls by the BJP, with their unhealthy obsession with Pakistan, but then again I wouldn't be surprised if they were unemployed as well.

Ali S | 9 years ago | Reply General Raheel should refrain from giving any kind of response to Modi's Pakistan-paranoid hawks, who want to keep distracting the Pak Army from focusing on the main task at hand - extremism, which General Raheel had been tackling fairly well so far. The best response would have been to ignore the loudmouthed idiots - this kind of belligerent rhetoric is exactly what they want to show gullible Indians to keep them in their palm.

mazhar | 9 years ago | Reply we stand with our army... pak zindabad

Kushal | 9 years ago | Reply We are bored of this "befitting response" general. We know what it means, it means running to the US. Now come out like a man.

Paki | 9 years ago | Reply @jayant: Save innocents kids from getting slaughtered 1st, then give India a befitting reply ! -- you are the one behind the mess, that's why he is addressing you(india) India has gone from nation who had to import wheat to feed it citizen to the 3rd largest economy , while Pakistan has gone from a welfare state for Muslims to a place where Muslim are killing each other by the dozens ! -- in your dreams buddy. Blame only works when citizens are uneducated , so this will work in Pakistan only. rest in the world were well know what happened when ever Pak fought India. 4 – 0 . -- you seriously need to correct your facts, how can you comment with such distorted historical information?

In the name of love (what more) | 9 years ago | Reply This rhetoric aside, the biggest problem for pakistan is India's growing global influence. Every institution, every select member group that India enters which has a veto to ban others from entering, would get out of bounds for pakistan. The nuclear suppliers group (nsg), that india is expected to enter by the next year or 2, would mean the end of NSG for pakistan. Is pakistan doing something about that? China would keep bailing Pakistan out till the time it feels Pakistan can destabilize India. If the gap between India & pakistan widens to a point where pakistan's ability to hurt India is extremely restricted, the Chinese would absolutely pull the plug on Pakistan.

Paki | 9 years ago | Reply For all those who are chanting slogans of 1971, War started on 25/26th march. it surrendered on 16 December, do you any sense for an army to fight that long? look who is talking, your army can't withstand a war of 20 days today in 2015, you are here to make fun of us, 1971? like IPL is your cricket match practice, war against terrorism is our war practice. trust me you are living in dark indians. come to life.

Muhammad Kashif Iqbal | 9 years ago | Reply @Dr.M.M. Khan: some one has to plug the gap left by politicians.

aam shehri | 9 years ago | Reply @Tony Singh I think you only studied Wikipedia, you don not have enough knowledge and courage to speak truth, go and study in deep, you will be shocked when you realize you lose all wars except 1971, all world knows who wins who lose in 4 wars except Indians, remember the score 3-1!! regards

Menon | 9 years ago | Reply Has Pakistani leadership gone mad? Stupid question, they are mad. Pakistan makes these statements before starting something stupid. Watch out! This time, you don’t have Congress at the center. If you start a war, this will the last one.

safy | 9 years ago | Reply Indians at it again. I bet they havnt got anything better to do than commenting on Pakistani forums. makes me happy. their interest suggests we must be doing something right. oh and hows our spy pigeon doing by the way???

Patriotic Pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply LONG LIVE PAKISTAN...

Patriot | 9 years ago | Reply Love live Army & COAS. This is what our nation & people expect from our leader.

hamza | 9 years ago | Reply What a leader he is.I wished Pakistan to have even a PrimeMinister like him.

Pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply @Talking Point: Someone has to put Indians in their place from time to time.

Dr.M.M. Khan | 9 years ago | Reply It is interesting to note how often the COAS of Pakistan is in the news compared to that of India. It is the indian politicians who make aggressive statements against Pakistan and not the indian COAS. May i know how many know the name of Indian COAS ? Many indians do not know either but they certainly know the name of pakistani . There was a time the Pakistani PM could not get along with any COAS but now he does not spare an oppurtunity to be photographed with him.! No wonder there are a rumours of a "soft coup " in Pakistan.

Dan | 9 years ago | Reply Before giving befitting reply think about all 4 previous wars first. There is no parity and comparison between the two armed forces. India is way ahead of Pakistan, 4:1 in army, 6:1 in air force and 8:1 in navy. Remember 71 war where just 5 Indian warships destroyed 1/3 rd of Pakistani Navy. That's a famous incident world over. Its on the internet as " Operation Trident" But war is not good. We should look for peace.

Rex Major | 9 years ago | Reply @Uber Taxi Wala: "@jayant go and look after your women…your indian brothers may rape them while you’re online following whats happening in Pakistan." ... general Raheel Sharif and co. with your national budget!

Faizan Maqbool | 9 years ago | Reply @Aslum: Sure, in the process of destroying our adversaries, who cares if we destroy ourselves ? Mutually assured destruction sure beats losing all the time

samir | 9 years ago | Reply @jayant: he is telling india to stop killing our children. your defence minister recently gave a policy statement accepting murder of civilians as indian strategy. pathetic.

F Khan | 9 years ago | Reply For God sake,let sense prevail on both sides.Let's stop this stupid provocative statements on both sides,irrespective who started it,please stop this stupidity.We both are nuclear armed nations and should start behaving like one.

joke ? | 9 years ago | Reply @jayant: "3rd largest economy", "3rd largest economy".. keep telling yourself lies. you are still the country with largest number of people living below poverty line, largets number of people living without access to toilets, rape capital of the world (just yesterday two foreign tourists were raped in Goa). not to mention largest number of stupid and most obsessed people, e.g., bashing Maria Sharapova for not knowing Sachin Tendulkar and arresting pigeons for spying. no, but keep lying to yourself, "3rd largest economy"..

Raees | 9 years ago | Reply General, when will we come out of this adventurism? Please forgive the nation now. We are to improve the quality of our education. We are to sustain democracy in Pakistan. We could not take Dhaka back. Our concept of strtegic depth with Afghanistan is averted on us. How can you help us out? Just compare the quality of life, roads, security, health and schooling in garrisons and public muncipalities. This comparison has ever been unchanged in military and civil governments.

iLLPoPo | 9 years ago | Reply Typical Army chief policy statement! Indians are not fool enough to take step that can be fit in your aggression frame that may prompt you to reply. They are destabilizing us by using our own people successfully without indulging into war. What needed is to reciprocate in the same way if our agencies are still capable and may get spared from correcting politicians!!

iLL | 9 years ago | Reply Typical Army chief policy statement! Indians are not fool enough to take step that can be fit in your aggression frame that may prompt you to reply. They are destabilizing us by using our own people successfully without indulging into war. What needed is to reciprocate in the same way if our agencies are still capable and may get spared from correcting politicians!!

Aafaq | 9 years ago | Reply @jayant: Stay in dream u ignorant..U ppl have NO wisdom at all.. All wars started by india have been won by Pakistan. Secondly for your kind of information our PIGEON is enough for creating chaos so forget about our army. U ppl can't even handle our pigeon hahaha

Pk_Paris | 9 years ago | Reply One statement from Indian minister will keep COAS, all ministers, opposition leaders busy for next 2-3 months.

Food for thought | 9 years ago | Reply I guess the general forgot a few historic events which most of this newspaper's avid Indian fan base would only be too happy to point, starting with 71' Bangladesh war of Independence in which over 90000 prisoners of war surrendered and were later captured. I am not even going to mention the other ones but I would be more than happy to mention the Pakistan army's last and greatest adventure - Kargil war - which ended with the Pakistan army making a retreat after losing men, territory and international reputation. You just cannot put a positive spin on such events and now the latest General has the nerve to make such statements. I guess somethings never change in Pakistan.

Mansoor khan | 9 years ago | Reply india and israel are the biggest menace on the face of the globe..both systematically using proxies to destabilise their neighbours while putting the blame on the victims..

Ahmed | 9 years ago | Reply In 65 war normal civilians went up till Khem Karan in India and brought great loot from there. if normal ppl had penetrated so much we can well imagine the advances that the Army must have made.

Talking Point | 9 years ago | Reply @Uber Taxi Wala: Ask your general to get treated for paranoia. He seems to be obsessed with making a statement a day to keep up his 8pm courage .

Rehman | 9 years ago | Reply We love you sir....Pakistan Zindabaddddddddddd

Ahmed | 9 years ago | Reply Well done Raheel Sharif. This is the kind of leadership that we want in Pakistanis. There is not a single Pakistani who is afraid of the India but time and again our leaders have let us down. Time now put our enemies in their place

Pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply @jayant: Look,a pigeon.

Farooque Siddiqui | 9 years ago | Reply @Jayant. India 3rd largest economy. Really. More than 2500 people dead due to heat wave in last week in India where one third of the country is without power. Pakistan had more severe temperatures but no heat related death. This speaks volume about the level of poverty in India, where the progress is limited to few cities and to riches only. Common people has no clue about shining India and 3rd largest economy. Indians are the people with big country but small hearts.

Talking Point | 9 years ago | Reply This general has to keep issuing such statements everyday to keep up his moral. May be his befitting reply includes leaving behind unclaimed bodies ...

Tony Singh | 9 years ago | Reply We Indians shudder when Gen Raheel roars. Specially when we know 90K soldiers his "Brave" Army surrendered to 3K Indians. Yes we Shudder General.

Uber Taxi Wala | 9 years ago | Reply @jayant go and look after your women...your indian brothers may rape them while you're online following whats happening in Pakistan.

Aslum | 9 years ago | Reply Pakistani Army has potential to destroy our adversaries who are using terror activities to destablize Pakistan internally. Our nation stand with Pakistan Army.

jayant | 9 years ago | Reply Save innocents kids from getting slaughtered 1st, then give India a befitting reply ! India has gone from nation who had to import wheat to feed it citizen to the 3rd largest economy , while Pakistan has gone from a welfare state for Muslims to a place where Muslim are killing each other by the dozens ! Blame only works when citizens are uneducated , so this will work in Pakistan only. rest in the world were well know what happened when ever Pak fought India. 4 - 0 .

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