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Did Vajpayee government sleep for a year over intelligence alert on Kargil?

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Did Vajpayee government sleep for a year over intelligence alert on Kargil?

NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had knowledge about infiltration from the neighbouring country in 1998, but his government did not pay attention to intelligence reports on the Pakistan Army's intrusions in Kargil in 1999, according to an army think tank.

The study titled 'Perils of Prediction, Indian Intelligence and the Kargil Crisis', said the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) had also warned in its October 1998 assessment that the Pakistan Army might launch "a limited swift offensive with possible support of alliance partners (reference to mercenaries)."

The Intelligence Bureau (IB) had also sent a secret note to the then Prime Minister Vajpayee on Pakistani logistics building across the Kargil.

The Indian Army's think-tank Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) made these revelations in an internal study it undertook on Indian intelligence and the Kargil crisis.

It rejects the charge on the Indian security establishment failing to detect or predict the Pakistani invasion because of a lack of proper intelligence and a turf war between security agencies.

"What went wrong, was not lack of intelligence, but the lack of coordination, assessment and predicting in specific terms in which way the attack will be enacted," says the classified study.

The study shows that the Indian intelligence agency had accurately assessed Pakistani intentions prior to the Kargil crises and as early as in 1998, a year prior to detection of the intrusions.

As many as 43 reports were produced between June 1998 and May 1999 by three intelligence agencies -- the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Military Intelligence (MI). The Indian border guards stationed in Kargil also generated two other reports.

The study says the analysis, origins and destinations of these reports is quite revealing: Army intelligence produced 22 reports, none of which were shared with any civilian agencies, including the JIC. RAW generated 11 reports and IB produced 10 reports, of which three were distributed widely.

Did Vajpayee government sleep for a year over intelligence alert on Kargil? - The Economic Times
 
BJP is exposed long ago:

- They have came to power by ranting against pakistan but vajpayee goes to Lahore and get back stabbed.

- Then advani goes to offer respect to jinnah's tomb.

- Jaswant singh praises jinnah.

- BJP rant against Bangladeshis but they have not sanded back even 100 illegal immigrant when they were in power.

- Coffin scam

- Godhra train burning + riots both are their mistakes.
 
May be because they were trying to improve relations with Pak by going there by bus. May be they were trying to give it a benefit of doubt. Obviously they failed to understand that backstabbing is in Pak's nature. No matter how much genuinely we try to normalize the relation, they will keep on sending terrorists and infiltraters.
 
May be because they were trying to improve relations with Pak by going there by bus. May be they were trying to give it a benefit of doubt. Obviously they failed to understand that backstabbing is in Pak's nature. No matter how much genuinely we try to normalize the relation, they will keep on sending terrorists and infiltraters.

Then how can he is so different from Nehru which was criticized by BJP supporters.
 
- Escorting terrorists like Maulana masood azhar

- selling out huge govt. PSUs and properties at throwaway prices.

- BJP made lots of money but lost whole support of its people

The attack of parliament, attack on Lal Quila the list goes on an on they were big fail
 
Yeah. Thats the choice we have. Either Congress or BJP. All of them suck.
Drilling down, all the choices we have at state level suck too. But hey... we vote them in.

I think the problem is in thinking larger. We do not have enough capable leaders. Everyone who gets into power go after short term gratification rather than work cohesively with other leaders towards a common goal.

Our bureaucracy and judiciary does not help either.

Need of the hour is
1) Capable honest leaders
2) Unity amongst the leaders
3) Intelligent purpose that everyone gains from
4) Remember that they are people and not "rulers"
 
BJP is exposed long ago:

- They have came to power by ranting against pakistan but vajpayee goes to Lahore and get back stabbed.

- Then advani goes to offer respect to jinnah's tomb.

- Jaswant singh praises jinnah.

- BJP rant against Bangladeshis but they have not sanded back even 100 illegal immigrant when they were in power.

- Coffin scam

- Godhra train burning + riots both are their mistakes.

If you want peace of mind as indian citizen ,better learn to live with BJP .

For exclusivity ,pakistan was made by indian muslims and you shouldn't have miss the bus.

The study titled 'Perils of Prediction, Indian Intelligence and the Kargil Crisis', said the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) had also warned in its October 1998 assessment that the Pakistan Army might launch "a limited swift offensive with possible support of alliance partners (reference to mercenaries)
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/did-vajpayee-government-sleep-for-a-year-over-intelligence-alert-on-kargil/articleshow/10902760.cms

One year ?? No ,This Journalist should relearn school maths.

Its known kargil infiltration was done in winters of 1998 and Early 1999 when indian troops left their bunker for the winter and Pakistanis moved into those empty bunker.

Indian Kargil ops began in early May 1999 after it was found out in the Aprils that Pakistais have occupied our bunkers.

Even if we go by the time line of Oct 1998 when IB hinnted about sometthing may happen in Kargil sector as mentioned in the article and calculate the timelapse when clearing ops was launched in may 1999 , its come about roughly six months

And it must be said that IB wasn't specific and it never hinted about large scale PA operation but routine cross border infiltration by kashmir militants .
 
BJP is 100 times better than congress.
Nehru lost land to pakistan and china.
BJP got back sikkim from the mighty chinese.
All BJP haters are in this thread it seems:lol:
 
It does seem rather ridiculous, that Indian planners were not aware of Kargil.|
as prior to that Skardu airbase; which is normally occupied by civillian airliners or the occasional C-130 was Abuzz with Almost 90% of the Army aviation fleet.. with Artillery, Supplies and men swarming the base for movement to forward sectors.
At that time, you could easily walk past the base and take a few pictures.
Heck, one expects RAW to have enough HUMINT from inside Pakistan that would tell them something was up.
Somebody was sleeping.. or intentionally kept quiet.
 
I still think BJP leadership was better than Congress...I just don't get what they government is doing ? I mean are they really working or just sitting in their AC rooms ?
 
People like you who can't handle the truth and remain in ostrich mode aren't helping any cause .
What truth?
Did you just not say he should have gone to Pakistan because he is muslim?
Which follows that you support BJP because it helps your communal agenda.
What a disgrace!!!
 

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