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Kathmandu Thursday December 06, 2001 Marga 21, 2058.
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Better learn
from us
This refers to news story
titled "Nepal does not need foreign troops: PM Deuba" dated December 5, 2001,
TKP.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur
Deuba categorically ruled out inviting Indian troops to Nepal to fight the Maoists. Former
Prime Minister Kirti Nidhi Bista ordered Indians to remove their troops from Nepali
territory two decades ago. Indians still think that Nepal needs Indian troops to guard its
border, besides fighting the Maoist terrorists. This is a good thinking and it is not
unexpected as long as Indian troops continue to occupy Kalapani. However, Indians have not
realised yet that India was defended by Gurkha troops right from the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny to
1947. Many more millions of Indians and Pakistanis would have been killed during the
partition, had Gurkha troops allowed the situation to deteriorate. Unfortunately, many
Indians still undermine the three hundred old Gurkha troops raised by the late King
Prithvi Narayan Shah. Indian troops should better start taking lessons from Nepali troops
to fight terrorists in Kashmir and Northeast India instead of making useless comments. And
what is foolish is that any country, which has failed to contain terrorism, that too in
fifty years time, makes a comment that can fight terrorism in other countries. Please,
wait and watch how Nepali troops fight terrorists.
Captain (retd) Nar
Bahadur Chhetri
Gahana Pokhari, Kathmandu |
