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Former Pakistan army chief denies war plan purchase

NEW DELHI: After the former Pakistan National Assembly Speaker, Gohar Ayub Kham, claimed that an Indian Brigadier sold a secret war plan to his country, the former Pakistan Army chief, Gen. Mirza Aslam Baig, on Tuesday said his army had no such plans in its possession.

``As per our records, our (war) archives, there is no mention of such kind of a deal. The only information that we got was from a dispatch rider from Jammu that the Indian Army would launch its main offensive from Rabi and Chenab region," he said.

``It was a very small plan,'' Gen. Baig, who was at that time a Major, told Aaj Tak, according to a press release issued by the television news channel.

Gen. Baig has cast doubts about the money allegedly given to the Indian Brigadier in return for the so-called secret plan, and said ``for a secret war plan, the amount should have been Rs. 20 lakhs and not Rs. 20,000. Twenty thousand is too small an amount for a plan of such a nature.

``For such money, a small local plan or a division plan would have been obtained. The so-called plan could have also been in the form of deception, whether it was successful or not, I cannot say,'' he said.

``But when you see the ground reality and when you talk of proofs, there are no proofs, no war archives to corroborate that there was any such plan which was acquired from a top Indian Army official,'' he said.

PTI

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