'Op Sindoor was not conventional': Army Chief explains Pakistan's narrative
PTC News Desk: Speaking on Operation, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Upendra Dwivedi says, "...On 23rd, we all sat down. This is the first time that RM (Defence Minister Rajnath Singh) said, 'enough is enough'. All three chiefs were very clear that something had to be done. The free hand was given, 'you decide what is to be done.' That is the kind of confidence, political direction and political clarity we saw for the first time..."
"On (April) 23rd, we all sat down. This is the first time that RM (Defence Minister Rajnath Singh) said, 'enough is enough'. All three chiefs were very clear that something had to be done. The free hand was given, 'you decide what is to be done.' That is the kind of confidence, political direction and political clarity we saw for the first time," Dwivedi said at the event.
"In Operation Sindoor, we played chess... We did not know what the enemy's next move was going to be, and what we were going to do. This is called greyzone. Greyzone means that we are not going for conventional operations. What we are doing is just short of a conventional operation... We were making the chess moves, and he (enemy) was also making the chess moves," the Army chief remarked.
Speaking at an event at the IIT Madras, he added, "Somewhere we were giving them the checkmate and somewhere we were going in for the kill at the risk of losing our own but that's life is all about".
While lambasting Pakistan's strategic narrative management, projecting itself as winner of the conflict, Army Chief also called out government’s decision to elevate its Army chief, Asim Munir, to the rank of five-star general and field marshal.
"Narrative management system is something which we realise in a big way because victory is in mind. It's always in mind. If you ask a Pakistani whether you lost or won, he'd say, 'Army chief has become Field Marshal. We must have won only, that's why he has a become a Field Marshal'," the Army Chief said.
- PTC NEWS
