War veteran asks India to remain in limits
‘Enemies will face befitting from more powerful Pakistan Army’
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ISLAMABAD – The war veteran of September 1965, Lieutenant General (retd) Ali Kuli Khan on Sunday said that the Pakistan Army had shown its determination and professional commitment in 1965 war.

"Now our army is more powerful ever in past and the spirit of 1965 Indo-Pakistan war is still alive in Pakistani nation and a befitting response would be given if Pakistan was attacked by India again,” he said this while talking to a private TV channel.

He said the passion and sentiments demonstrated during 1965 war was need of the hour to foil the nefarious designs of the enemy. "I was commissioned in the 12th Battalion of the Baloch Regiment, the same regime his father served as the colonel-commandant in 1957,” Ali Kuli said.

He said the excitement came around September 20 when the Baloch Battalion was ordered to launch an attack with a Battalion minus and a troop of tanks to capture the Hussainiwala headworks. "After digging trenches around Kasur, opposite Bedian and Khem Karan, the Battalion deployed opposite Hussainiwala headworks,” he added.

He said that two companies of the Battalion participated in forming the bridgehead in the army offensive in the Khem Karan Sector but returned soon unharmed. “During this period I was the Battalion’s intelligence officer and the Battalion promptly executed what it had been asked but it was only able to capture a part of its objective,” he said.

"We were primarily in a defensive position along the famous BRB Canal, but I am glad to say that in our Divisional Area nobody was caught napping on September 6," he added. Ali Kuli said that in this war the Battalion earned two Sitara-e-Jurats, one Tamgha-e-Jurat and one C-in-C's Commendation Card.

Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk

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