On July 16, 2001, night time, the then Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf left the plush Amarvilas Hotel for Agra’s Kheria airport in a huff to take a flight to Islamabad because the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee refused to conform to weaken Islamabad’s dedication on cross-border terrorism over decision of the Kashmir concern. The total Agra summit collapsed and people Pakistani journalists who had been ready from 2 pm for a optimistic joint assertion have been left excessive and dry after the then Indian Spokesperson Nirupama Rao delivered a one-liner on the Mughal Sheraton lodge at 10 pm. Coined by the then External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh, Rao, who later served as India’s Foreign Secretary, cryptically mentioned “that a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step” and left the rostrum.

Rao delivered a repartee after the Pakistani dictator had taken off for his nation from Agra airport.

Frustrated by the Indian response and fueled by luxurious lodge’s hospitality, the Pakistan journalists accosted Rao, slanged her, and nearly roughed her up for India permitting their President to return empty handed to Pakistan. The expectation bubble that India below Vajpayee would purchase the Pakistani line that there all will likely be hunky dory if the Kashmir concern was resolved in favour of Islamabad had burst.

Among these current at Mughal Sheraton was one riled up journalist who has now accused former Pakistan Army Chief Gen Qamar Jawed Bajwa for making a secret cope with India over Kashmir Valley. According to Pakistani newspaper experiences on the claims of the journalist, Gen Bajwa met 20-25 journalists on the Army Headquarters in 2021 and advised them off-record that Pak Army was not able to fight towards India in view of the situation of sure weapon programs in its stock. The declare by the journalist was that Bajwa had stored the political management then headed by Prime Minister Imran Khan at the hours of darkness and that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was imagined to fly to Pakistan to ink the key deal engineered by Gen Bajwa and Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.

The off-the-record dialogue at Pak Army Headquarters apparently passed off across the time when Indian and Pak Army Director Generals of Military Operations agreed to carry hearth alongside the Line of Control (LoC) and all different sectors with impact from midnight February 24-25, 2021.

While the Pakistan Army issued an announcement on Friday stating that media dialogue relating to Pakistan Army’s fight worthiness and the previous Army Chief’s views to that finish have been quoted out of context. The Army then added that it was operationally ready and in state of utmost fight worthiness. The key factors in Army’s response have been the affirmation of off the report dialogue and the contents of the off the report assembly, –as quoted by the journalist months after Gen Bajwa demitted workplace and the ouster of Imran Khan–were largely right.

It is apparent from the complete episode that the retired common Bajwa not is the flavour of the day in Pakistan and that the actual goal of this debate is the conduct of the Pakistan Army itself, which is within the crosshairs of politically resurgent PTI chief Imran Khan. Understandably, the Narendra Modi authorities has not reacted to the key Kashmir deal media debate with Pakistan itself being at a reduction on the Raisina Hill since 2016.

For somebody who dominated Pakistan for six lengthy years behind the scenes, Gen Bajwa was not a idiot to appreciate that there’s nothing referred to as off-the-record with 20-25 journalists. He maybe was giving a transparent message to the general public by the media that Pakistan ought to consider its financial revival and quit its obsession over Kashmir valley because it was bleeding the Islamic Republic dry. The present state of a bankrupt Pakistan accompanying political chaos and terror exhibits that Gen Bajwa was trying into the way forward for the Republic and sensitizing the general public by a accountable media. The actual message of Gen Bajwa was the futility of Pakistan’s Kashmir dream and never the fight worthiness of the Pak Army.