New Delhi: A top Army officer has asserted that India holds adequate weaponry making it capable enough to take on the “entire Pakistan” from “our borders or even in depth”. In an interview to a news agency, Lieutenant General Sumer Ivan D’Cunha, Director General of Army Air Defence, pointed out that shifting the Pakistan Army base from Rawalpindi, in face of any attack, will not benefit the neighbouring country much as all of it is within the range of India’s military might.
“India has an adequate arsenal of weapons to take on Pakistan right across its depth. We are absolutely capable from our borders or even in depth where we can take on the entire Pakistan. The GHQ (general headquarters of Pakistan Army) can move from Rawalpindi to KPK (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) or wherever they want to move, but they are all within range. So, they’ll have to really find a deep hole,” D’Cunha said.
During a media briefing and live demonstration held in Amritsar, the Indian Army displayed debris of drones and missiles launched from Pakistan and intercepted by Indian air defence systems in the city. The Army also showed how advanced systems, including the upgraded L-70 Air Defence Guns and AKASH missile systems, were used to neutralise aerial threats aimed at critical sites, including the Golden Temple and cities across Punjab.
D’Cunha said the success of the operation is an answer to any speculation around Pakistan’s prior knowledge about the operation. “For any conflict to be successful, a surprise is the greatest element. And the very fact that… we got a hundred terrorists (in the precision strikes on May 7-8), if not more, in their respective places where the camps were, that itself gives you an answer.”
