****Two Quotes From History****

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On the 6th of August 1947, on the brink of India's independence & the creation of Pakistan, a party was held to bid a warm farewell to those officers who had chosen to be part of the soon-to-be created Pakistan. Major General K.M. Cariappa, who would later rise up to become the first native Chief of Army Staff of India [subsequently promoted to Field Marshal]  delivered a touching speech on that occasion, in which he said,

[color=red][i]"I say au revoir deliberately as with it I associate the honest and sincere wish of everyone of us here and all those with the services outside that we shall meet each other frequently as the best of friends in the same spirit of good comradeship that we have had the good fortune to enjoy all these years. We have worked together so long in the same team. We hope we shall continue to work together in the same spirit of the defence of the two Dominions against external aggression. Comrades-in-arms, during all our life in the various services we have lived together, played together and fought together in the various battlefields on which our magnificent armed forces have fought with the highest degree of fellowship and comradeship. May this spirit continue even after we are separated"[/i][/color]

Acknowledging these heart-felt words of fondness & oneness, instilled by the bond of brotherhood between the men who fought alongside as one, on behalf of the officers who would form the Pakistan Military, Brigadier Agha M. Raza, later promoted to the rank of Major General1, replied,

[color=red][i]"The Armed Forces of Pakistan will always uphold their traditions under which they served shoulder-to-shoulder with the Indian Armed Forces and will continue to do so whenever required, not only in the interest of our own people, namely the inhabitants of this sub-continent, but also for universal security which is the aim and object of humanity that has suffered the unprecedented horrors of two devastating World Wars within a few decades"
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Sometime back, I read Freedom at Midnight. The book had been in the house for many years, yet for some reason I never felt like reading it, until that time. An extremely engaging book, it narrated an incident where an officer who had opted for Pakistan left most of his luggage back home in India, thinking he could come back & take them along after settling down in the new country. Alas, ordered by his Pakistani leadership to annex the then princely state of Jammu & Kashmir [J&K], he went to war against India that came to J&K's rescue, shattering all prospects of being able to  return back & collect his belongings. More such anecdotes showing the warm & positive outlook of the Indian Officers towards their now Pakistani counterparts & vice versa, have been narrated in the book.



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