INDIANS should ask their government how only four people purported to be Pakistanis were able to capture a heavily fortified base so easily. By the same token, it will take only 40 people to take over New Delhi and perhaps only 400 to conquer the whole of India.

If the level of competence of the Indian army is so low, why is the Indian government spending billions on defence? What is the use of keeping 700,000 soldiers in occupied Jammu and Kashmir if they cannot prevent just four men from entering and wreaking havoc with an Indian military base?

Shakir Lakhani
Karachi

Published in Dawn, September 26th, 2016