Propaganda has many faces of truth. From outright lie, to half truth to the truth out of context. This sums up how Pakistan has lost in the war of narratives in all of its major conflicts with India. A stalemate in the 1965 war has to be a decisive defeat for a country...

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..three times larger force in any military lexicon but Pakistan failed to elucidate it. Pakistan army still holds the most strategic peak ‘Point 5353’ it occupied during the Kargil war. The key objective of Operation Vijay by India was to secure it because it dominates...

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...the National Highway 1 and can disrupt Indian defensive positions from Mushkoh to Bhimbet; yet the world never talks about it. PM Vajpayee tried to coerce Pakistan diplomatically in a ten month military stand off in 2002 but ended up losing 798 soldiers...

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spending Rupees 8000 crore along with massive wear and tear of equipment without fighting Pak in Op Parakram. But it's hardly discussed in the so called academia of Pakistan which also believes that their country somehow lost the 1948 war after capturing 33% of Kashmir.

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Not to forget that Pak is held responsible for all the chaos in Afghanistan but no one talks about the proxy war Afghanistan waged from 1947 to 1979 in the tribal areas of Pakistan the name of ’Pashtunistan’. For Pakistan's academia, Pak-Afghan relationship starts from 1979.

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And finally #AyazSadiq has also given India something to reinforce their obscurantist narrative after Pakistan shot down two Indian jets in the air battle in Feb, 2019. India termed it an act of war but could not dare to retaliate because it lacked the capabilities.

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Pakistan over the years has emerged as a military power whereas India still remains a military force. In the difference, lies the capabilities to win wars.

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@MadihaAfzal writes in her book ‘Pakistan under siege’ that Pakistan is obsessed with India. But she completely ignores the fact that:
1. India has deployed ten out of it's fourteen corps exclusively for Pak on its western front
2. 81% of IAF bases are configured against Pak

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3. Missile groups have been raised and directed against Pak.
4. Amassed enough fissile material to make 2600 nuclear weapons.
5. India's defense spending is $71 billion out of which $18.52 billion has been allocated for buying equipment; more than total military spending of Pak.
General Kyani reiterated the same point to President Obama in the strategic dialogue which were held in October 2010 that, “Ignoring Indian military presence (3 strike corps and three dozen airfields) on the eastern border would be a dereliction of duty for any Army Chief“

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But who will explain all these points when Pakistan's academia comprises of people like @husainhaqqani who as ambassador to the US issued more than 2000 visas without restoring to clearance by ISI which resulted in a huge influx of CIA spies.
Pakistan lost East Pakistan in 1971 but it also failed in countering a number of fallacies related to the fall of Dhaka e.g the myth of 3 million killed, surrender of 93000 soldiers. Bangladesh’s first foreign secretary Sayyid A. Karim, debunked the myth of 3 million:
“As for the number of Bengalis killed in the course of liberation war, the figure of 3 million mentioned by Mujib to David Frost in January 1972 was a gross overstatement. This figure was picked up by him from an article in Pravda, organ of communist party of the Soviet Union”
~ Sayyid A. Karim, from his book “Sheikh Mujib: Triumph and Tragedy”

Operation Search Light was launched after the militants of Awami League killed 100,000 Biharis and West Pakistanis including 15,000 at Santahar, 10,000 at Chittagong and 2,000 at Mymensing in March 1971.
A detailed composition of military strength in East Pakistan during Op Search Light:

Army = 34,000 (23,000 infantry men, rest from supporting
arms and services)
Navy = 3000
PAF = 200
Civil Armed Forces and West Pakistan Police = 5,100

Before the Op in Mar, strength was 15000!
I have posted a number of threads over the past year with an effort to debunk a number of myths linked with the fall of Dhaka by sharing facts and figures mostly from the Bengali and Western authors. https://twitter.com/tequieremos/status/1206497551861583872?s=19
Its hardly discussed in the academic circles of Pakistan that Siachin has no strategic importance for India. PM Indira Gandhi wanted to deny a free run to Pakistan and China in the north of Kashmir

Did General Chibber and Hoon achieve that by occupying the three passes...
(Sia La, Bilafond La and Gyong La), at heights between 18,000 to 23,000 feet, on the Saltoro Ridge, which is the western edge of the Siachen Glacier?

The then Indian Northern Army Commander, Lieutenant General M. L. Chibber in 1984 says:
‘Siachen does not have any strategic significance. The strategic importance being talked about is all invention.’ According to General Chibber, ‘The military plan was to occupy the three passes with platoon group strength (fifty to sixty soldiers) each for summer months only.
During this period the troops were to be maintained totally by air. We appreciated that given the adverse climatic conditions, during winter months, neither side would want to occupy these passes.’

Indian troops on the Glacier are tightly squeezed on both sides...
..by Pakistan on the west and China on the east. This has limited the Indian Army’s space for manoeuvre in case of hostilities with both sides.
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