Pune, January 23 – Calling for an aggressive defence policy, the former Chief of Army Staff, Gen V. P. Malik, today termed as bad India’s policy of `no first use’ of nuclear weapons.
“Right from the beginning, India has taken pride in considering itself a peace-loving State which is fine in the moral sense but counter-productive in the international scenario”, Gen. Malik said at the convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Modern Management here.
On the no first use policy, Gen. Malik asked “what is the point in making such declarations when the enemy country does not believe in it and will not hesitate to make its use first?”
Terming the taking of the Kashmir issue to the United Nations several years ago as “one of the biggest blunders committed by our rulers”, Gen. Malik said “the defence view of our rulers has always been passive, which has cost us dearly”.
The other blunders include allowing China to take Tibet after the Indo-China war and returning of the Hajipur Pass to Pakistan after the Indo-Pak. war, he added.
