00:00I will explain a very good explanation, but there is an important fact that it doesn't
00:12mean that.
00:13That is why there is an existing protocol on the China border.
00:19The existing protocol is that you will not open fire unless cleared at the topmost level.
00:27There is an order.
00:30General Narwani had to escalate the problem to the level of Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister, Ajit
00:38Dhowal and Jay Shankar, our external affairs minister.
00:42He kept asking them one question.
00:44What are my orders?
00:46Because there is an existing protocol that exists, there is a question.
00:53Yes.
00:54There is an existing protocol that exists in Pakistan.
00:59There is no protocol that exists in Pakistan.
01:02If the local commander has a suitable reply, he will kill.
01:08He will kill.
01:09He will kill.
01:11But in China, modernly, the situation is very different.
01:15The orders are very different.
01:17So that is why General Narwani had to escalate the matter to the highest level in Delhi.
01:25So that is why the Prime Minister has decided to hand over his responsibility to the local,
01:42I mean army chief and to the local commanders.
01:44There was an extreme possibility of this escalating into a major war between India and China.
01:56Because the tanks were coming almost 200-300 meters away from our tanks.
02:03Finally, you know, at about, soon after, Rajanat Singh says this,
02:10Chinese PLA commander, he sends a message.
02:14He says, let us cool the situation.
02:18Let us have a meeting tomorrow morning at 9.30 and then we will consider the matter.
02:24General Narwani tells General Joshi, you just do not open fire but take your tanks as far as possible
02:34and put them in a position of offence but put your cannon down, you know,
02:41right up to the eyeball-to-eyeball level.
02:44So this is what exactly happens on that day, on the night of 29th, 30th August.
02:532020.
02:54So, this is where the dangerous situation is.
02:58So, but the matter was almost getting into a trigger point.
03:07The trigger point is that someone is firing.
03:12So, the causes belly comes to India.
03:16India will be blamed as aggression.
03:18Yes, sir.
03:19So, I think General Narwani was right.
03:33So, you know, the pressure point is that the首 of your top leadership,
03:36the pressure point is that the PM is still standing.
03:38When you say the person, it is taken the same direction.
03:39If you refer to the religion, the principal, it cannot listen to it.
03:41You know, upon that, you will give a very decisive reply.
03:48The Prime Minister should have given a very decisive reply, either fire or do not fire.
04:04He should have said, I will take up the matter at the political level, do not escalate the
04:11matter and wait for a few more hours, because there is always a hotline connection between
04:20the DGMOs from Delhi and also with Beijing.
04:25We have a hotline in Pakistan.
04:28We should have asked the DGMO in Beijing in the PLA headquarters,
04:38if you are a local tactical commander, you will approve this.
04:51But anyway, now it is all wisdom and hindsight.
04:56That is useless.
04:58I think the Prime Minister should have been more decisive, because the chief of AVI staff
05:10is asking for a clear direction.
05:12Yes, Joshi Sarhaagiri.
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