“This action vindicates my long held
view that the Pakistan army is a professional institution, not a rogue
army as some sections of the media, service colleagues, and politicians
would like to suggest,” he added.
He said, “Even if Pakistan had shot down
the helicopter and shown it as a crash, thereby making us incur a loss
of trained men and an expensive machine, we would not have been able to
ascertain the truth, considering the sparsely populated terrain of
Skardu.”
He said the terrain precludes the use of radars for monitoring and charting the flight path from India’s side of the border.
The incident speaks volumes for the speed in decision-making,
communications set-up and the maturity of the Pakistani army hierarchy,
Jatinder Singh added.
