My
dear Hamid Mir Sahab.
First
of all, my sincere sympathies with you for the terrible experience you recently
went through. Hope you are mending well.
I
recently came across your article on the subject , given at this link
http://e.jang.com.pk/06-02-2014/pindi/pic.asp?picname=06_07.gif
I
know you are mashaAllah a serious journalist, so may not think that someone can
advise you, I still thought it my duty to may be try to steer you a bit.
1.
Have you ever thought why no one calls Kamran Khan a "Ghaddar"? He
also speaks openly, with facts, and against every institution including armed
forces. But in my view, he does what a journalist is supposed to do; I.e. Asks
questions, raises issues and doesn't add his personal bias on either side of
the argument. It's only you, Mr. Ansar Abbassi, Mr. Rauf klasra and Mr.
Salim Safi, who do this. I truly appreciate the level of efforts you all
put in keeping Pakistani public informed, but just maintain check and
balance. There are loads of anchors who run critical programmes against
government. But they aren't labelled what you four are? Just ask yourself why?
2.
You have mentioned 1971, Siachen, and Kargil as military failures. Please study
some military science books before criticising them. 1971 Less than a division
army, thousands of miles away, with logistics supply lines of men, ammunition
and fuel drained dry had no chance against the full military might of Indian
Army who had road, rail, links to their sources of ammunition, men and fuel.
Last man last bullet could have been true had it been military men only. Please
check that maximum number of POWs were Pakistani civilians, men, women and
children amongst that 99000 who could all have been slaughtered. Siachen
isn't a defeat. We are no match to Indian Army. They have 34 full divisions and
we had 12 divisions at that time. The master of military science General von
Clausewitz States that for any army to totally annihilate the opposing force,
requires 2/3 superiority which is about that 12:34 divisions. We had
successfully countered their majority at other fronts but they still had about
24 divisions left to face us. With Siachen, we have distributed their 3
mountain divisions force and ours only 3 light para militaries. So now we have
a ratio of may be 1:1.5 which can at best be stated as mutually assured
destruction with either of the sides not able to completely annihilate the
other. We have successfully bluffed Indians in terms of military manoeuvres and
have moved fastest ever Corps from one point to other since Second World War,
completely bluffing Indians. Coming to Kargil, yes we had to backtrack thanks
to chicken ing out of our leadership but had they not, we would have brought
Indians to negotiating table on all fronts. It was a one time chance that was
ruined by our leadership. But again, Indians have now deployed more troops
there further reducing the net force facing Pakistan's frontiers (Eastern
front).
3.
So it's ok to criticise army after getting your facts right. At the moment your
out bursts sound more like "point scoring as women do in family fights
'tumharee Baap ne mujhe Eik din Khush Nahee rakha' ', but your overall argument
lacks figures and facts. Do the maths of forces, do the maths of economics (on
military affairs), and then come out with questions without expressing the kind
of views you said in that event in Bangladesh. That is not your mandate to ask
for war crimes against Pakistani generals. Watch some program's of Amanpour. She
takes everyone to task, asks the right questions but never ever says America is
a party to core problems in Middle East.
Please
keep up good work, and do investigative journalism. Don't do just point scoring
'taanabazi' please.
In
the end, I sincerely hope and pray that the guys who ordered attack on you are
brought to justice, whoever they are, and this culture of silencing those with
a difference of opinion is killed forever from our country.
This
is just a constructive feedback to you, with a positive intention. Please do
not take me to task in your next programme.
Best
regards
Naeem
Qazi
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