Pak’s lie nailed

 

PRIME Minister Mr. Narendra Modi did a great job personally nailing Pakistani canard about its forces destroying the runway and the air defence system and the fighter jets of the Indian Air Force at the Adampur Air Force base in Punjab in the recent strikes. The Prime Minister arrived at the Adampur Air Force base, shook hands with the senior brass, mingled happily with the air warriors, raised slogans such as ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jay’ and ‘Vande Mataram’, gave a no-nonsense message in his speech that the consequence of terror is only one -- total annihilation of the perpetrator. And as the Prime Minister did all that, the famed S-400 air defence system and the MiG 29 aircraft provided a spectacular background to the national leader. The message to Pakistan -- as well as the world -- was clear, that Pakistan was only indulging in spreading canard about its destruction of the Adampur Air Force base.

 

There could not have been a better way to nail the Pakistani lie than this one. In other words, after Pakistan realised it could not defeat India or defend itself militarily, it started a propaganda war to tell the world about the damage it inflicted on India. In still other words, the Pakistani effort was not just to tell a white lie to the world but also to its own people -- as the last-ditch effort of face-saving. Having failed to counter the precise Indian strikes on specific terrorist targets, Pakistan tried to hit civilian targets as well as military establishments in India. Therefore, India hit back at some of Pakistan’s military targets in the most telling manner -- reportedly neutralising even its nuclear umbrella (a report that still remains unconfirmed). With such an overwhelming Indian superiority -- military and technological -- Pakistan was left to launch a propaganda war. So the canard about destruction of many of India’s military installations, including the critical Adampur Air Force base.

 

When Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi visited the Adampur Air Force base, he exposed Pakistani lie-telling. For, the video grabs of the event showed no damage to the Adampur Air Force base infrastructure or air or defence assets. A MiG 29 fighter aircraft and a tall canister of S-400 air defence system stood proudly in the background as a the Prime Minister gave his iconic speech in the toughest possible words. True, the Prime Minister cannot visit all the installations claimed to have been destroyed by Pakistani Forces -- and that can never be the purpose of leader of his eminence -- but suffice it was to visit just Adampur so as to pass the clear message to the world about Pakistani lie. It is unfortunate that Pakistan keeps indulging in such acts instead of correcting its thought-process in the first place. If that is done, then there would have been no problem whatsoever. But the problem is with the twisted Pakistani thought-process -- which the world saw in the past 2-3 weeks. No matter that, India must thanks itself and pat its own back for its absolute sterling performance on all fronts in the past few weeks since the Pahalgam terror attack. It proved its sense of focus and purpose and delivered a terrible blow to Pakistan.

 

The demonstration of Indian might shocked even countries such as China and the United States whose leaders possibly has not expected Indian military and diplomatic maturity to have reached such high levels. The Prime Minister’s visit to the Adampur Air Force base was a powerful symbolism of power pyramid of India. Of course, Pakistan cannot be expected to learn any lessons from its experience post-Pahalgam. That is the reason there are many Indians who think that India should keep punishing Pakistan no matter the frills and chills of diplomacy -- and punish the hardest.