Operation Gulmarg: The Kashmir Incursion

Pakistan army’s tactics of taking Kashmir by force continues to date albeit with changing strategies. The place of lashkars is now taken by the Islamic jihadists recruited by various terrorist organizations based in Pakistani and sustained by the deep state.    

By Kashinath Pandit

With Qayyum Khan, the chief minister of NWFP in the loop, Pak Army planners sand- mapped annexation of the geographically large and strategically crucial State of Jammu and Kashmir. In liaison with the British residual counterpart, they converged on forestalling India’s attempt of retrieving Gilgit-Baltistan whose borders touched on Soviet Central Asia. The British colonial mindset would not give up Lord Curzon’s “Great Game in Central Asia” strategy.

Pakistani generals motivated the lashkars by inciting their religious sentiment of fighting the infidel (kafir) and secondly, whetted up their lust for male-ghaneem or enemy property (gold and ornaments) and abduction of their young women.