The former Indian military commander lauded ISPR for carrying out successful information operation.
Lahore (Pakistan Point News – 30th March, 2019) Retired Indian Army General Lieutenant General (r) Syed Ata Hasnain has accepted India’s defeat at the hands of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in information warfare.
The former Indian military commander lauded ISPR for carrying out successful information operation.
Speaking at a seminar organised by International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), Syed Ata Husnain said, “I give full marks to Pakistan for the manner in which it has played out the information strategy. The ISPR has done an outstanding work for Pakistan.”
The Indian general admitted that India started losing narrative in occupied Kashmir in the 90s and has not been able to wrest control.
He said that in India everyone knows about ISI but nobody about ISPR. Only military professionals know about the ISPR, he added.
Ata said the aspect of hybrid warfare has not been understood in India and authorities in India have failed to grasp that “the hybrid can only be countered by hybrid and not by conventional means”.
Giving examples of Iraq and Afghanistan where the Americans have spent billions but failed to achieve the desired results, he said, “Hybrid in Iraq and Afghanistan should have been fought by hybrid, but hybrid was fought by going conventional.”
Ata advised India to take a leaf out of Pakistan’s strategy and use information strategy.
“If anyone has taught us how to play information operation it’s the ISPR of Pakistan who have done it marvellously, I would like to give it back to them, always. Credit to them,” he said.
