US Envoy In Pakistan Terms 'Silly' Indian Army Chief's Remark': RTT

(RTTNews) - United States Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson has termed a recent remark of Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor as 'silly' but did not elaborate the remark.

Patterson is reported to have made the comment in an interview with Pakistan-based newspaper "The Dawn," but the daily did not elaborate the remark of Gen Kapoor that came in for the U.S. envoy's rather harsh criticism.

The 'silly' remark of the U.S. envoy comes at a time when Pakistan is engaged in a strategic dialogue with the U.S. and as the former nudges India to resume the composite dialogue process, stalled in the wake of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks.

It is being speculated that Patterson was referring to an old remark of Gen Kapoor wherein he had said (without naming Pakistan) that India should be ready with a plan to launch "highly-mobile 'battle groups'...adequately backed by air cover and artillery fire assaults, for rapid thrusts into enemy territory within 96 hours".

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