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Some members are resorting to stick measuring comparing Badaber with Pathankot. This is not right; morally as well as technically. As the intention of the attackers has been totally different in both the cases. In Badaber they had the shoot to kill orders who ever may come across and there were no strategic assets stationed at Badaber (having stayed there for 8 years) so they just stepped in and started shooting. They found 20 or so people gathered in the mosque (right on the main road open to general public that bisects the two parts of the living areas) and sprayed them with bullets.
However, at Pathankot the terrorists probably had the orders to destroy the assets alone. They were there for the long haul as proven by the fight back for 3 days and hence they didn't go rambo right upon entering. Or do you want me to believe that the terrorists didn't have a chance of harming any civilian having entered the living quarters/blocks of the 14 Km airbase? Were there no unarmed people left in the housing area/base area at all? So they probably didn't have the intention of a massacre as the only people who got killed are the ones who defended or conducted the operation. Had they planned a massacre they could have headed straight to the living areas with the inhabitants still asleep neutralizing any guards, like they intended in Badaber. Of course, there would have been far little security around the living quarters compared to the aircraft hangars/pens.
So I would request everyone to have regard for all the martyrs (Badaber/Pathankot) while dueling on Pathankot. Men fight in the battlefield not from behind their screens! So save it for then
However, at Pathankot the terrorists probably had the orders to destroy the assets alone. They were there for the long haul as proven by the fight back for 3 days and hence they didn't go rambo right upon entering. Or do you want me to believe that the terrorists didn't have a chance of harming any civilian having entered the living quarters/blocks of the 14 Km airbase? Were there no unarmed people left in the housing area/base area at all? So they probably didn't have the intention of a massacre as the only people who got killed are the ones who defended or conducted the operation. Had they planned a massacre they could have headed straight to the living areas with the inhabitants still asleep neutralizing any guards, like they intended in Badaber. Of course, there would have been far little security around the living quarters compared to the aircraft hangars/pens.
So I would request everyone to have regard for all the martyrs (Badaber/Pathankot) while dueling on Pathankot. Men fight in the battlefield not from behind their screens! So save it for then