Eastern Army Commander Lt General M M Naravane on Friday said that despite a “resounding defeat” in Kargil, Pakistan does not seem to have learnt its lesson as it continues to indulge in ceasefire violations.
The General Officer Commanding-in-chief (GOC-in-C), EasternCommand, said, “On the 20th anniversary of our (Kargil) victory, we arerededicating ourselves for safeguarding the security and sovereignty of ournation.”
“Some people just don’t learn their lessons; you have tokeep teaching them till they learn. The country’s western neighbour engages inpointless arguments and continues to indulge in ceasefire violations, despiteits resounding defeat in Kargil,” he added.
“The sooner they stop, the sooner all can progress,” Naravane, who has been appointed the next vice-chief of the Army, told newspersons on the occasion of ‘Kargil Diwas’. The GOC-in-C paid tributes to the soldiers who laid down their lives in the 1999 Kargil war at a solemn wreath-laying ceremony at Fort William, the Eastern Command headquarters.