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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
It was making a mountain out of a molehill. Both the army and the media were complicit in this: One deliberately and the other out of ignorance. The recent anti-infiltration operations in Keran sector, which were declared over after two weeks on October 8 by the chief of army staff, General Bikram Singh in Delhi and the northern army commander, Lt General Sanjiv Chachra in Srinagar, were nothing more than a molehill.
Given such high profile army visitations, the media also decided to up the ante by searching for ghosts that did not exist. Did Pakistani soldiers intrude and occupy Indian posts across the Line of Control (LC)? Was another Kargil being replayed in Keran? Was the Indian Air Force using gunships to dislodge terrorists? Were recent talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Nawaz Sharif in New York, which sought meetings between the two director general military operations (DGMOs), up in smoke? An English television channel (NDTV) even showed meeting with injured soldiers in Srinagar hospital as exclusive news.
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