Ex-Pak army chief denies Gohar claim

Khan, ex-National Assembly Speaker, had claimed that an Indian Brigadier had sold war plans to Pak in 1965.

A day after former Pakistan National Assembly Speaker Gohar Ayub Khan claimed that an Indian Army officer had sold a secret war plan to his country, former Pakistan Army Chief General Mirza Aslam Baig on Tuesday said his army had no such plans in its possession.

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"As per our records, our (war) archives, there is no mention of such kind of a deal. The only information that we got was from a dispatch rider from Jammu that the Indian Army would launch its main offensive from Rabi and Chenab region.

"It was a very small plan," General Baig, who was at that a Major, told an Indian TV channel.

General Baig cast doubts about the money allegedly given to the Indian Brigadier in return for the so-called secret plan and said "for a secret war plan, the amount should have been Rs 20 lakh and not Rs 20,0000. Twenty thousand is too small an amount for a plan of such a nature."

"For such money, a small local plan or a division plan would have been obtained. The so-called plan could have also been in the form of deception, whether it was successful or not, I cannot say," he said.

"But when you see the ground reality and when you talk of proofs, there are no proofs, no war archives to corroborate that there was any such plan which was acquired from a top Indian Army official," he said.