SIKHS ARE VERY BRAVE

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Maj. Gen. Fazal Muqeem Khan, author of book "Pakistan's Crisis of Leadership"



“The major reason for our defeat are Sikhs. We are simply unable to do
anything before them despite our best efforts. They are very daring
people and are fond of martyrdom. They fight courageously and are
capable of defeating an army much bigger than them.”



On 3rd December 1971 we fiercely and vigorously attacked the Indian
army with infantry brigade near Hussainiwala border. This brigade
included Pakistan army’s Punjab regiment together with the Baloch
Regiment. Within minutes we pushed the Indian army quite far back.
Their defense posts fell under our control. The Indian army was
retreating back very fast and the Pakistani army was going forward
with great speed.



Our army reached near Kausre-Hind post (Kasure). There was small
segment of Indian army appointed to defend that post and their
soldiers belonged to the Sikh Regiment. A few number of the Sikh
Regiment stopped our way forward like an iron wall. They greeted us
with the ovation (Slogan) of ‘Bolé-so-Nihal’ and attacked us like
bloodthirsty, hungry lions and hawks. All these soldiers were Sikhs.
There was even a dreadful hand-to-hand battle. The sky filled with
roars of ‘Yaa Ali and Sat Sri Akal’. Even in this hand-to-hand
fighting the Sikhs fought so bravely that all our desires, aspirations
and dreams were shattered.



In this war Lt. Col. Gulab Hussain was killed. With him Maj. Mohammed
Zaeef and Capt. Arif Alim also died. It was difficult to count the
number of soldiers who got killed. We were astonished to see the
courage of those, handful of Sikh soldiers. When we seized the
possession of the three-story defense post of concrete, the Sikh
soldiers went onto the roof and kept on persistently opposing us. The
whole night they kept on showering fires on us and continued shouting
the loud ovation of ‘Sat Sri Akal’. These Sikh soldiers kept on the
encounter till next day. Next day the Pakistani tanks surrounded this
post and bombed it with guns.



Those, handful of Sikhs got martyred in this encounter while resisting
us, but other Sikh soldiers then destroyed our tanks with the help of
their artillery. Fighting with great bravery they kept on marching
forward and thus our army lost its foothold.

Alas! A handful of Sikhs converted our great victory into big defeat
and shattered our confidence and courage.



The same thing happened with us in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In the battle of
Jassur, the Singhs opposed the Pakistan army so fiercely that our
backbone and our foothold were lost. This became the main important
reason of our defeat; and Sikhs’ strength, safety and honour of the
country, became the sole cause of their victory