In the middle of political sparring over last week’s ‘surgical strikes’, strong objections to calls from Arvind Kejriwal and the Congress for sharing of “proof” to counter Pakistan’s propaganda have been flagged by a former army chief.
General Shankar Roychowdhury told NDTV that India should not put out any information on the operation in the public domain.
“It is an ongoing operation and the ISI (Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence) and Pakistan army are eagerly looking forward to whatever they can pick up, particularly from the Indian media, because 80 per cent of all intelligence comes from open sources,” said General Roychowdhury, who was army chief from 1994 to 1997.
India, he asserted, should not put out its most secret information on open sources. “The Pak ISI and army are waiting to pick up intelligence about India’s operational techniques,” he said.
Last Wednesday, Indian troops claimed that they went across the Line of Control and targeted seven militant launch pads in Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK)
Pakistan says the ‘surgical strikes’ never took place and were really nothing more than “cross-border firing”.