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Pak says war threat receded as withdrawal of troops on
Islamabad, Nov 30: The chief of Pakistan Airforce, Air Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir, has said that the threat of war between India and Pakistan has receded as troops on both sides of the border are `rapidly disengaging` after a year-long eyeball-to-eyeball deployment.
Islamabad, Nov 30: The chief of Pakistan Airforce,
Air Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir, has said that the threat of war
between India and Pakistan has receded as troops on both sides
of the border are "rapidly disengaging" after a year-long
eyeball-to-eyeball deployment.
"The potential threat of war is over but our army and air force personnel still man various important forward positions to deter any possible threat," he told local daily dawn. "The potential threat of a major armed conflict was averted between may and July this year, when the situation had turned very serious. But then better sense prevailed," he said, referring to the deployment of about one-million- strong troops along the borders by both the countries after an attack on the Indian Parliament last December. He discounted the possibility of a nuclear war between the two countries claiming that Pakistan had the deterrence. "But then there is no doubt ... That both Pakistan and India narrowly escaped a very serious outbreak of war," he said.
Mir said Pakistan had to bear some financial cost of taking our troops close to the Indian border, but claimed India bore a higher cost in the withdrawal exercise.
Bureau Report
"The potential threat of war is over but our army and air force personnel still man various important forward positions to deter any possible threat," he told local daily dawn. "The potential threat of a major armed conflict was averted between may and July this year, when the situation had turned very serious. But then better sense prevailed," he said, referring to the deployment of about one-million- strong troops along the borders by both the countries after an attack on the Indian Parliament last December. He discounted the possibility of a nuclear war between the two countries claiming that Pakistan had the deterrence. "But then there is no doubt ... That both Pakistan and India narrowly escaped a very serious outbreak of war," he said.
Mir said Pakistan had to bear some financial cost of taking our troops close to the Indian border, but claimed India bore a higher cost in the withdrawal exercise.
Bureau Report