The History, Story & Glory Of India Since 75 Years Of Independence Day
As we bring in 75 years of our nation's freedom let us not for a moment forget that from the moment of freedom to this moment here right now as i speak to you india's sovereignty india's unity has been threatened from the outside by adversaries who want what we want we've been at war nearly non-stop since 1947 and over the next half hour we're going to pay tribute we're going to relive some of the moments of india's glorious hours with guns guts and glory and starting with india's highest ever hour which began after the 1962 and the 1965 was in 1971. partition communal violence and turmoil in the months after independence on august 15 1947 had the indian army stretched to the limit taking advantage of the situation pakistan's founder muhammad ali jinnah angry about getting what he termed was a moth eaten pakistan ordered the pakistan army to aid tribals and raiders to invade jammu and kashmir and forcibly take control of the state thousands of raiders crossed over into jamun kushmir in mid-october 1947 indulging in the most brutal rape plunder and murder maharaja singh sought india's assistance but the iron man of india then home minister sardar vallabhbhai patel made it very clear the indian army could not land in srinagar till an instrument of accession was signed on october the 27th 1947 indian army troops landed at the srinagar air base and began to beat back pakistani raiders and soldiers this was independent india's baptism by fire by december 1947 pakistan was running low on ammunition and the indian army was poised to recover pakistan-occupied kashmir including gilgit and baltistan after a series of brilliant military operations but with the matter taken to the united nations and a standstill agreement the stage was set for more conflict in the future 1962 saw a month-long military operation both in the northeast and ladakh with china and india clashing along the border a lack of preparedness and absence of professional military leadership resulted in a military debacle in 1965 pakistan tried to take advantage of the situation by launching operation gibraltar and operation grand slam to take jnk by force under the leadership of lal bahadur shastri the army not only beat back pakistani forces but opened a second front in punjab with the indian army reaching the outskirts of lahore pakistan was taken aback by india's air and land operations pakistan was defeated and india had taken back control of the crucial rgb pass in kashmir the erstwhile soviet union brokered a peace treaty at tashkent where india released all captured territory including the hard fought and one rgp bus but the most decisive victory india's greatest ever came in 1971 when india split pakistan into two and bangladesh was born it began with the pakistan army's unprecedented atrocities on bengalis of then east pakistan thousands of women were raped and murdered millions fled across the border to india then prime minister indira gandhi decided to help liberate then bangladesh of the army staff general sam maniksha sought six months time post the monsoons to launch his operations the indian armed forces prepared for holding operations towards the west and a blitz creek for the capture of dhaka the 13-day war saw information warfare played a critical role where the air dropped by a battalion at dungale appeared in the world media as an airdrop by a brigade breaking the morale of the pakistan army the indian army is in bangladesh your air force has been destroyed you are surrounded on all sides and if you don't surrender you will be killed unmercifully the indian army bypassed all pakistan army military fortifications on route to dhaka and lieutenant general aak nyazi lost the will to fight after a series of bombings in the capital and seeing the indian army at his doorstep december 16 1971 saw the biggest military surrender after the second world war when 93 000 pakistan army soldiers surrendered at dhaka to the indian army and bangladesh was born we shall provide all protection and safety no measures of represent would be taken professional military leadership and battle-hardened soldiers having learned their lessons well from the 1962 debacle and the 1965 stalemate comprehensively defeated the pakistan army this was india's greatest hour india has always had unreliable neighbors especially china and pakistan in 1999 many of you will remember that things were actually really good between india and pakistan there was a diplomatic bus ride that atal bihari vajpayee the then prime minister had mounted to laura but little did the country and the system know that the pakistan army under then general pervez musharraf had completely different plans in kargil here's how india responded february 1999 saw then prime minister atal bihari vajpayee undertake the lahore bus journey to write a new chapter of peace with pakistan as the peace pastor lahore was crossing the waga border pakistan army soldiers were crossing over under cover of darkness into india's cargill sector drast the battalion heights in ladakh pakistan's game plan was to cut off the national highway from srinagar to lay at dras and kaksa and cut off access to lake siachen and eastern then pakistan army chief general parvez musharraf wanted to avenge pakistan's defeat at the siachen glacier when the indian army unfurled the tri-colour at the world's highest battlefield beating back the pakistan army's attempts to occupy the saltoro ridgeline in april 1984 foreign cargill came as a rude shock for india basking in the diplomatic glory of the lahore bus journey in early may 1999 indian convoys came under attack on route delay the cargill ammunition depot went up in flames and summer patrols both in vitalik and kaksar went missing india still could not believe pakistan had stabbed india in the back blaming terrorists for well we have been having some of those incidents and we had anticipated that there could be some escalation and it appears that our anticipation is not only wrong but we are fully equipped to deal with it once realization dawned that these weren't terrorists the indian army launched operation vijay and the indian air force launched operation safe sagar to evict the intruders from heights between 14 to 18 000 feet from the mushkor valley through dras kaksar kargil batalik and near the southern end of the siachen glaciers on the night of june the 12th 100 guns including 155 millimeter howitzers boom together decimating pakistani troops on tololing in drafts the hundred gun concept was tested and then over the next 45 days from tiger hill to 0.4875 jubar to kaluban vitalik infantry artillery and air operations was systematically launched to dislodge the pakistan army soldiers telephone foreign believe that bofors howitzers and mirage 2000 fighter jets had been pressed into service in panic fearing an escalation pakistan's then prime minister nawaz sharif was sent to the u.s to help broker a ceasefire however india insisted pakistan must withdraw to the other side of the line of control and on july 26 operation vijay was declared a success with the complete defeat and retreat of pakistan from kargil however this was a hard-fought victory with 530 brave indian soldiers having made the supreme sacrifice of their lives to recover the cargill heights from the pakistani intrusion once again india had defeated pakistan in a conventional war fought for the first time after nuclear test by both countries the line of control between india and pakistan occupied kashmir has been a hot live frontier for many many years now but it was in 2016 after pakistani terrorists infiltrated across this line and killed innumerable army jawans in uri that the indian army the indian system really woke up and realized it needed to go deeper than it ever had done before the surgical strikes of 2016 have passed into legend and even to this day not much is known about what really happened but here is what we do know of one of modern india's finest military hours the mission that signaled a new india stunning the country the world and marking a shift in how india dealt with its enemies it was in september 2016 when the phrase came alive the battlefield was the most hostile territory imaginable where under cover of darkness teams of the indian army's special forces mounted a revenge operation inside pakistan occupied kashmir the scale and depth of which india had never mounted before the attack had been forced by the gravest of provocations an attack by jesse mohammed terrorists on the army's large camp in uri a devastating plot that ended with 19 indian soldiers massacred in their sleep 11 days later a grieving but focused india quietly carried out a historic retaliation men from the indian army's four para special forces infiltrated several kilometers across the line of control deep into pakistan occupied kashmir's valley of terror videos that came out subsequently depicted the brutal overnight attack on park built terror launch pads across the line of control throwing new light on the dangerous assault depicting the unrelenting firepower unleashed by the indian special forces teams as they decimated launch pad after launch pad with small arms and heavy weapons after four hours of hell on earth unleashed by the indian commandos resulting in the elimination of 38 trained terrorists and the devastation of multiple terror staging areas the assault team retreated back across the line of control without losing a single man the videos that emerged a year later provided the first visual evidence of what happened on the night of september the 29th 2016. bearing out a brutal nighttime ambush of a set of clueless launch pads they further establish the unrelenting and rapid nature of the mission on the morning after the return of the brave indian team the indian army took an unprecedented step actually announcing to the country what it had done the indian army conducted surgical strikes last night at these launch pads the operations were basically focused to ensure that these terrorists do not succeed in their design of infiltration and carrying out destruction and endangering the lives of citizens of our country pakistan's sponsored cross-border terror hasn't stopped by any stretch but ever since the uri strikes india has ensured that for every indian killed by infiltrating terrorists a full multiple of their ilk pays the price back with swift uncompromising debt but unlike that morning after the surgical strikes you probably won't ever hear about it bureau report india today less than three years after the uri surgical strikes pakistan struck again this time in palwama and remember by this time india had already set a precedent when provoked and attacked in this manner when this kind of blood was spilled india needed to act and that's the reason why just a few days after the attack india responded this time not from the ground but from the air less than two years after the uri attack terror raised its ugly head once again in february 2019. this time a jersey muhammad suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a crpf convoy in kashmir's pulvama forty jawans were killed in the devastating high intensity blast making it the single most damaging terrorist attack in jammu and kashmir ever a blood-drenched statistic in a state that had already seen so much death the terrorists trained and funded by pakistan had shaken an india that was steeped in election mode it would take 12 days for india to reply and after the devastating precedent set by the 2016 surgical strikes india knew it had little choice but to take the fight to the enemy again on the 26th of february 2019 a group of indian mirage 2000 fighters crossed the loc in darkness and unleashed a flurry of bombs at a jersey mohammed facility nestled in hills outside pakistan's balakote town the first aerial strikes on pakistani territory since the 1971 war would send shock waves around the world and herald a new paradigm for indian retribution to pakistan's terror factories balakot would become a buzzword for decisive punitive action raising temperatures during election season and putting the onus fully on a muscular new india that was reaffirming that it would not take terror attacks lightly anymore the names of the hero pilots would only emerge a year later the five indian air force pilots who flew into hostile airspace in their mirage 2000 fighters they spent only a few minutes in hostile airspace launching their precision weapons weapons that would glide many kilometers into pakistan and smashed down into that terror facility on a hilltop outside balacode city a mission that has passed into legend the very same day but there were tangible lessons learned lesson one choice of weapon configuration the indian air force launched munitions that had been fitted with penetration warheads in other words they were rigged to first pierce through the roof and floor of the facility before exploding to cause maximum casualties given the massive denials by pakistan and the claims and counter claims that followed the indian air force feels it could have fitted some of the spice 2000 munitions with high explosive warheads so that the destruction would have been fully visible on the surface too and brought down the buildings lesson two choice of weapon itself the spice 2000 precision guided munition used by the air force to bomb balakut's jabba top didn't have a video feed that could have provided even more visual proof of the accuracy of the strike experts have wondered whether under better weather conditions the air force could have deployed the israeli-made crystal maze munitions which would have provided a live video feed of the full flight path till the target the indian air force executed balacode with precision but three years is a long time in air power new enemies at its border and a whole new war-like paradigm means that the next balacode if it would happen will have far fewer lessons and no room for propaganda bureau report india today and finally remember when i said that we've been nearly constantly at war we literally are even now with our biggest adversary on our doorstep for nearly three years and counting we're talking about china the eastern ladakh standoff that has settled into a status quo with 200 000 troops smashed on both sides in a war-like situation that doesn't really have an end in sight remember what i said india continues to be even in its 75th year at what elevated combat air activity in ladakh a result of the chinese air force violating indian air space repeatedly in recent days just around the time that the china taiwan flashpoint has heated up india has witnessed a marked ramp up in chinese air power provocations the latest manifestation of india's newest and perhaps biggest ever defense challenge in 75 years of independence in the most hostile high-altitude battlefield on earth not that the indian military isn't prepared since may 2020 when xi jinping's armies massed along the line of actual control in eastern ladakh the indian air force has been deployed big at these icy heights from the new rafale jets to sukhoi fighters and mig-29s even the new apache attack helicopters have been chopping through the thin ladakh air on combat patrol and now over two years since the world's largest military standoff began at this high altitude battlefield china is busy raising temperatures again preceding this sudden spurt in airspace violations and provocations using combat aircraft china had activated a massive military aviation build-up unfolding in clear view of imaging satellites in march last year the chinese government approved plans to construct 20 multi-purpose airfields in tibet all signals that point to one thing china has been preparing for war or at the very least a new escalation and expansion of this conflict with close to two hundred thousand soldiers now deployed along both sides of the line of actual control in eastern ladakh a giant chessboard of a standoff zone where china moves are being matched by indian counter moves as the two asian giants engage in a high altitude board game tanks troops missiles and fighter jets are pieces in the game last year the indian army decided on one of its biggest ever reorientations in history the indian army which once extensively planned and prepared for warfare on the plains of punjab and the sandy wastes of the thar desert has been forced to reconfigure itself to fight along a second front the high altitude deserts of the world's toughest battlefield in ladakh the official term for this historic move towards the north is rebalancing but for a standoff that began in may 2020 on the banks of the pangong lake there's no sign of any major de-escalation two years since the chinese have begun building access infrastructure literally on a war footing very close to where the whole standoff actually started the chinese have also built permanent accommodations for their troops allowing two winters and counting to freeze the new status quo into the ground india isn't sitting around helplessly of course building its own infrastructure and roads in ladakh and posing a running challenge to chinese forces you don't hear much from ladakh anymore like you used to in 2020 and 2021 when india took the challenge to china's door but make no mistake india's biggest military challenge and strategic threat since 1947 continues to build in the freezing hellscape of ladakh's highest altitudes india's biggest ever deployment continues to stand guard bureau report india today 75 years of freedom have been the result of fighting of defending and people who've made the supreme sacrifice as we journey through these war let's never forget those who've laid down their lives given their blood for the freedom of this country thank you for watching.