India had deployed its offensive ‘Three Strike’ Corps near the border, in addition to the heavy contingent of the army which was deployed along the artillery and armored border.
Pakistan’s army had also completed counter-deployment, but there was heavy expenditure on their movement. Anyway, Pakistan had less troops as compared to India and there was a big difference in both the quality and quantity of the weapons.
Three years ago, General Pervez Musharraf, the dictator of the democratic government that overthrown the government, was himself present at the place in Jhelum from where the missile was to be fired.
More than two dozen scientists from the Kahuta Research Laboratory have been able to hit land-to-land-level Gauri (which are capable of hitting the centers of large cities located more than a thousand kilometers away) and Abdali and Ghaznavi (who have been killed relatively short distances of Ghauri But are more efficient in killing any military target easily) were present there to start the missile test process.
The media or none other than soldiers and scientists were allowed to attend the event, but Lieutenant General Khalid Qidwai, the head of Pakistan’s Strategic Planning Division (SPD), ensured that some selected part of General Musharraf’s speech was in Pakistan and international Must reach nuclear experts.
The ‘Strategic Planning Division’ serves as Pakistan’s ‘Nuclear Command Authority’ or the authorized secretariat or headquarters on nuclear matters.
His intention was to use General Musharraf’s speech as a ‘war defensive strategy’ (detent) to prevent any possible operation in India or to intimidate it.
As later part of General Musharraf’s speech was published by many national and international media. An international writer personally thanked General Qidwai in writing for making these excerpts available.
