Government bungled Punjab operations, says Amarinder

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday said that the Pathankot operation was completely botched up.

“Even after the passage of seven days, nobody is sure whether all the militants have been flushed out or not,” he remarked and pointed out that “we are as unsure and uncertain about the situation today as we were on the day one of the attack”.

“By bringing in the NSG, instead of the Army which has better training and expertise in counter-insurgency, those at the helm may have certainly glamorised and romanticised the operation but they have also ended up with more loss of precious lives of our soldiers,” the former Punjab chief minister, who has also served ten years in the Army and participated in 1965 war, said.