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Pak Military Exercise: For Pakistan India Is Real Threat, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Just An Irritant
Islamabad Pakistans security establishment, unmoved by the threat from homegrown Islamic insurgents, is to launch a training exercise this week focused on the scenario of a possible showdown with traditional rival India.
The countrys powerful military is to launch exercise Azm-e-Nau (New Resolve) III to test the capacities of its men against a hypothetical Indian attack, and validate its security strategy.
The war game is the culmination of the new strategies discussed over a period of one and half years at various academic and operational levels, and will be the largest military exercise since 1989.
Director General Military Training (DGMT) Major General Muzzamil Hussain said the forthcoming exercise in the garrison city of Rawalpindi will focus on India.
The exercise coincides with renewed efforts against Islamic militants, who last year moved to within 160 kilometres of the capital Islamabad.
They have been since pushed back to mountainous hideouts along the Afghan border, from where they continue to launch attacks against the national armed forces.
Pakistans army, over half a billion strong, has been reluctant to move against the rebels, who have previously been groomed by the forces to fight as their proxies, first in Afghanistan and later in India.
Since 2001, the Pakistani army has lost over 2,000 soldiers in skirmishes against the Taliban in the inhospitable terrain along the border, where once Islamabads security officials would guide the militants into Afghanistan to fight the Russian occupiers.
The bad blood between army and militants has given hope to local security analysts and US defence policy makers that Pakistans army might re-write its security doctrine, replacing India with the Taliban as chief security threat.
Pak Military Exercise: For Pakistan India Is Real Threat, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Just An Irritant Pakistan Ka Khuda Hafiz
Islamabad Pakistans security establishment, unmoved by the threat from homegrown Islamic insurgents, is to launch a training exercise this week focused on the scenario of a possible showdown with traditional rival India.
The countrys powerful military is to launch exercise Azm-e-Nau (New Resolve) III to test the capacities of its men against a hypothetical Indian attack, and validate its security strategy.
The war game is the culmination of the new strategies discussed over a period of one and half years at various academic and operational levels, and will be the largest military exercise since 1989.
Director General Military Training (DGMT) Major General Muzzamil Hussain said the forthcoming exercise in the garrison city of Rawalpindi will focus on India.
The exercise coincides with renewed efforts against Islamic militants, who last year moved to within 160 kilometres of the capital Islamabad.
They have been since pushed back to mountainous hideouts along the Afghan border, from where they continue to launch attacks against the national armed forces.
Pakistans army, over half a billion strong, has been reluctant to move against the rebels, who have previously been groomed by the forces to fight as their proxies, first in Afghanistan and later in India.
Since 2001, the Pakistani army has lost over 2,000 soldiers in skirmishes against the Taliban in the inhospitable terrain along the border, where once Islamabads security officials would guide the militants into Afghanistan to fight the Russian occupiers.
The bad blood between army and militants has given hope to local security analysts and US defence policy makers that Pakistans army might re-write its security doctrine, replacing India with the Taliban as chief security threat.
Pak Military Exercise: For Pakistan India Is Real Threat, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Just An Irritant Pakistan Ka Khuda Hafiz
