Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday said the Indian Army’s importance has diminished because the country hasn’t gone to battle in the past 40-50 years.
However, Parrikar clarified that his remarks should not be taken as endorsement for war.
“Soldiers were facing immense difficulties because people’s respect for the army has reduced during peacetime,” he said. “Two generations of officers have retired without seeing a war, but that doesn’t mean the army should not command the respect it deserves, a country that fails to protect its army cannot progress.”
Meanwhile, Indian minister of state for information and broadcasting responded to former president Pervez Musharraf’s nukes statement, questioning how he could enter India when he cannot enter his own house.
“General Musharraf saab cannot enter his own house how he would enter India,” Rajyavardhan Rathore said on Sunday, referring to the treason charges against the former president.
Rathore’s statement comes days after Musharraf slammed India for ‘destablising’ Pakistan, saying Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are for defence purposes and not for ‘celebratory’ occasions.
Musharraf claimed that India is planning a strategy to ultimately de-nuclearise Pakistan.
“We do not want to use nuclear capability but if our existence comes under threat, who do we have these nuclear weapons for? If I say in Chaudhary Shujaat’s style, do we have nukes saved to be used on Shab-e-Baraat?” he had told a local TV channel.
Musharraf’s statement came in response to Rathore’s earlier statement that Indian army’s operation in Myanmar should be construed as a clear message to all countries, including Pakistan, which are harbouring terrorist groups seeking to destabilise India. He said his country would strike whenever and wherever it wanted.
Referring to Pakistan’s reaction to his statement, the Indian minister of state for information and broadcasting said, “We hit somewhere else, it hurt somewhere else.”
“We warned that whoever harbours terrorism should be afraid. So why Pakistan spoke up?” he added.
Why make such stupid comments. The people of India have more respect for its soldiers than for the PM and its corrupt ministers. And that is any PM and ministers at any given time. Modi is great and we have respect for him but the respect for the soldier is higher.
Indeed a vague statement, by people at a very high rank in the Indian Ministry. One should not talk about importance of a particular division when it is all about the country as a whole.
One man sitting at the top, cannot decide the respect which people have for the army. This is a place where the politicians go wrong always – trying to think what the people at large are thinking.
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