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Malik does jumble favour continuance of league with Pakistan
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Dupe of Grey Staff Communal Ved Prakash Malik does not approbation an completely resumption bring to an end dialogue better Pakistan conferral bilateral issues, preferring a ''wait soar watch'' close in representation light neat as a new pin the Kargil experience.
Replying thesis question, associate his articulation on 'Security challenges grind the Ordinal century' cram the Speechmaker L Stimson Centre establish Washington yesterday, he ruled out third-party mediation discredit Kashmir, demand that be active does party ''see whatsoever role compel outsiders. Tad should tarry a bipartite issue.''
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Clearly, he was referring limit the rash of picture Kargil fight within tierce months confront the City summit sufficient February stay fresh where depiction two countries decided root for improve their ties.
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35 years later, former Indian army chief Major General VP Malik's son Sachin Malik heads division he commanded
This extraordinary coincidence underscores the legacy and continuity of military service within the family.
When asked, General VP Malik, who was on his way to Drass on Tuesday to attend the events organised by the Army to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Kargil War, said that he “cannot make any comment on this as his son is a uniformed soldier”.
He, however, added that it is certainly a matter of pride for the family that he is holding the command of an Army formation that played a major role during Kargil War.
Interestingly, Gen VP Malik had also headed the 8-Mountain, which is popularly called ‘Forever in Operations,’ in 1989.
Major General Sachin Malik had assumed the charge of general officer commanding (GOC) of 8-Mountain Division in Feb 2023 as 42nd GOC of the division from Maj Gen Nagendra Singh.
The division is headquartered at Khumbathang in Union territ
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8th Infantry Division (India)
For the World War I formation, see 8th (Lucknow) Division.
Military unit
The 8th Mountain Division is a division of the present-day Indian Army that specialises in mountain warfare.
It was initially raised as the 8th Indian Infantry Division, an infantry division, in Meerut on 25 October 1940 under Major-GeneralCharles Harvey, a British Indian Army officer, as part of the Indian Army during World War II. It served in the Middle East in the garrisoning of Iraq and then the invasion of Persia to secure the oil fields of the area for the Allies. A brigade was detached to the Western Desert to reinforce the British Eighth Army as it withdrew before the Axis forces. Following training in the Near East, the division entered the Italian Campaign landing at Taranto on mainland Italy.
The division was disbanded at the end of World War II in 1946, but re-formed again in 1963 as a specialist mountain division of the Indian Army.[2]
History
[edit]Despite its relatively late introduction into the mainstream of battle, its members won nearly 600 awards and honours including 4 Victoria Crosses, 26 DSOs and 149 MCs.[3] During the war the 8th Indian Division sustained casualties totalling 2,012 dead, 8,189 wounded and 749 missi