Capt Kernal Sher Khan (NH)

[Kasrkin]

Now this is called selective amnesia - while you very conveniently accept the part about Col.Sher Khan, you intend to totally rubbish the fact that Indian soldiers where tortured by the PA.

Why not? The accuracy of one claim does not inevitably mean credibility of another. If I were to say that Indian people are brave people, but they’re savages, would that make me a balanced or credible person? Ofcourse not. What if I asked you to accept that they’re savages or that they’re not brave? Well, that’s what you’re doing. Why the hell should I accept they're either unbrave or dishonorable? There is no credibility to your beliefs in this regard.

xeric, don't address his false claims of 'torture', etc. They've been addressed in the thread I linked. If he wishes he can continue the debate from there, if he has any credible substance that is. We will not allow this thread about Kernal Sher Khan to host insinuations against the Pakistan Army.

 

[Xeric]

What? You guys give out your gallantry awards for fighting against chickens? Thats new.


And yet Kargil continues to be with us.

Shake yourself and move to the Kargil Thread and discuss Kargil still being with you over there. Let's not destroy this thread.

 

[afriend]

Pak war hero honoured at India's recommendation

New Delhi: Pakistan army’s Colonel Karnal Sher Khan, who died during the Kargil war, is remembered with great pride.

The man who fought on Tiger Hill from Pakistan's side was given the Nishan e Haidar, Pakistan’s highest gallantry award on the recommendation of the Indian Army.

Captain K Sher Khan's brother Sikandar Sheikh says, “Allah ka shukar hai ki humara dushman bhi koi busdil dushman nahi hai. Agar log kahen ki India busdil hai to main kahunga nahi kyuki usne aelania keh diya ki karnel sher hero hai (No enemy is a coward. I won’t call India coward because it proclaimed Sher Khan as a hero).”

Captain Khan had led an assault to re-capture Tiger Hill soon after Indian troops had taken it and had lost his life in the process.

Ten years after Kargil, Karnal Sher Khan is a folk hero. His images visible everywhere, his native village has even been renamed after him.

Sikandar Sheikh says, "Ek game hai yeh. circikete ek game hai, Chakka mara..mara. Ye ek game hai. Cup milna hai bahadur ko. Cup Kernel Sher ko mila.aur wo bhi dushman ke kehe par (War’s a cricket game, but the winner has got the cup awarded by the opponent)."

On the other side too, valour was prized but the culture was different.

Instances of the Indian soldiers tortured as prisoners of war (PoW) by the Pakistani army can’t be forgotten easily.

However, captain Khan's family, unaware of the torture of Indian troops at Kargil, agree there must be a code of honour among warriors.

(With inputs from Vishal Thapar and Zahir Shah)

 

[forcetrip]

POW's are mistreated everywhere, on both sides. Even developed nations have this problem as well. Its unfortunate. In Islam it has been clearly been laid out that you must not mistreat enemy prisoners under any circumstances. And yet its the muslim countries that are making money on importing other peoples prisoners to torture .. we are that good at it now. Religion worldwide has been dead for a couple of hundred years ago.. everyone follows whatever they want and still have the audacity to consider themselves as true believers.

 

[Kasrkin]

Gentlemen your posts have been moved to the Kargil thread. Feel to continue your discourse there:

http://www.defence.pk/forums/military-history/11832-kargil-debacle-lost-opportunity-22.html

Another thread merged.

 

[sabir]

POW's are mistreated everywhere, on both sides. Even developed nations have this problem as well. Its unfortunate. In Islam it has been clearly been laid out that you must not mistreat enemy prisoners under any circumstances. And yet its the muslim countries that are making money on importing other peoples prisoners to torture .. we are that good at it now. Religion worldwide has been dead for a couple of hundred years ago.. everyone follows whatever they want and still have the audacity to consider themselves as true believers.

yes. bull's eye. we have long deviated from the path....and we cry out to let other know our religion as it is hard to believe from our gesture.