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Chief of the Pakistan Army, General Qamar Javed Bajwa & nbsp | & nbspPhotographic credit: & nbspIANS
New Delhi: Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said the Balakot airstrike by the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the repeal of Article 370 by the Narendra Modi dispensation will have a “lasting imprint” on the South Asian geopolitical situation. In an article in the ‘Green Paper 2020’, Bajwa described Kashmir as a “nuclear flash point”.
“The year 2019 witnessed two significant events that will have a lasting imprint on the geopolitics of this region; first, the unjustified attack on Balakot by the Indian Air Force on February 26 and second, the unilateral annexation” of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, by repealing Articles 370 and 35A, ”said the head of the Pakistani army.
“The first was a coercive attempt to carve out space for war under nuclear overhang and to enforce competition; skillfully denied by the Pakistan Air Force the next day, through a calibrated and proportionate response, the Indian desire to establish a New Normal was completely hampered. “
“The latter, despite the condemnation of the world at large, continues to torment the lives of more than eight million Muslims” of Kashmir … “he wrote.
To take revenge on the Pulwama terror attack, in which 40 CRPF men were killed when a suicide bomber Jaish-e-Mohammed rammed a car into the CRPF convoy on February 14, 2019, the IAF crossed the Line of Control (LoC) and launched an airstrike in the city of Balakot in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on February 26, 2019, killing several Pakistan-based terrorists.
Last year, the government of Narendra Modi scrapped controversial article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which gave Jammu and Kashmir special status. The Center revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and forked the state in two Union territories, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, in August 2019.
The Pulwama terrorist attack and the Balakot air strike had brought the two neighboring countries with nuclear weapons to the brink of war. Relations between New Delhi and Islamabad further deteriorated after the Modi government decision led to the repeal of article 370 of the Indian Constitution to bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir.
