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We could have taken PoK, says IAF chief
NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force chief Arup Raha on Thursday indicated that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) would have been India’s had the country gone for a military
NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force chief Arup Raha on Thursday indicated that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) would have been India’s had the country gone for a military solution rather than taking a “moral high ground”.
In unusually candid remarks, Air chief marshal Raha termed PoK as a “thorn in our flesh” and said air power had not been fully utilised till the 1971 Indo-Pak war.
Talking about the 1947 conflict with Pakistan, he said it were the IAF planes that brought soldiers and equipment to the battlefield when raiders attacked Jammu and Kashmir.
“And when a military solution was in sight, taking moral high ground, I think we went to UN for a peaceful solution to this problem. The problem still continues. PoK remains a thorn in our flesh today,” Raha said at an aerospace seminar here.
India’s security environment was vitiated and aerospace power would be required to deter a conflict and also ensure peace.
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