Pakistan continued to remain epicentre of terrorism: General Bipin Rawat
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat on Friday, while addressing Diamond Jubilee Webinar 2020, said that Pakistan has continued to remain the epicentre of armed Islamic insurgency and terrorism.
He said that "As India grows in stature, security challenges will rise proportionately. We must move out of the constant threat of sanctions or dependency on individual nations for our military requirements."
"We must invest in building long-term indigenous capability for strategic independence and application of decisive military power to squarely meet present and emerging challenges," Bipin Rawat said during Diamond Jubilee Webinar 2020 organised by National Defence College.
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"Pakistan has continued to remain the epicentre of armed Islamic insurgency and terrorism," he said.
Adding, he said that "For three decades now, Pakistan army and its intelligence agency ISI have been waging a proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir have now increasingly resorting to non-kinetic means by launching vicious anti-India rhetoric on social media and propagating false communal narrative to create social disharmony within India."
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"Situation along LAC in Eastern Ladakh remains tense amidst transgressions and belligerent actions by the Chinese. People's Liberation Army (PLA) is facing unanticipated consequences of its misadventure in Ladakh because of Indian Army's firm and strong response," General Bipin Rawat said.
CDS Rawat, further, said that "Our posturing is unambiguous-status quo has to be restored and we'll not accept any shifting of LAC. A full-scale conflict with China is low on probability, but border confrontations and unprovoked tactical military acts spiralling into larger conflict can't be discounted."
"Pakistan's current economic crisis, its inability to come out of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list, rising religious and ethnic fundamentalism, internal power struggles will push it further into instability in the foreseeable future," he concluded.
-PTC News
