much of fight. I could bear the battle cry of 'Ya Ali and the troops were charging through one after another position. By 0700 hrs. Lt. Qayum's task force captured the objective.
At about 0600 hrs I got Capt. Jahangir in the radio set. His radio set got soaked in canal water as the boat in which his wireless operator was there capsized during crossing. Ilc had to clean the set and again put it into operation. I could not hear anything clearly as the voice was fading. But I could make out that it was his voice. He launched the attack at 0630 hrs. on to the enemy position. Enemy gave a stiff resistance as the Head Quarter the main defence was located in that area. It was launched rather on their withdrawal route. After about an hour's battle enemy left their position leaving behind huge quantity of arms and ammunition. All the positions were totally cleared by 0800 hrs. Own troops reorganized. Enemy lost 11 of their soldiers including one Captain and we captured 5 of their injured. We had no dead except 7 injured. What surprised me was that Inspite of having very well dug trenches and bunkers all along the canal and communication trenches of 6 ft height, where one could comfortably walk heads up without being observed by our troops they left the position without giving much of resistance. My feeling was that their state of morale was very low and they had no will to fight.
Instead, the morale of our troops were sky high and they were bolstering about their achievement. Although all these boys had to undergo terrible hard time during move upto FUP there, again during attack which took more than expected time yet I could not see any sign of fatigue and tiredness. In their joy and excitement they were moving from bunker to bunker and were collecting ammunition and arms.
In that operation one thing that become very clear to me was that blessings of Almightily God should be there for any success. If the day was not foggy upto 0900 hrs next day we could have a very heavy casualty and may not have been successful in that operation. The fog acted as a smoke screen to our assaulting troops during crossing of canal and also during attack. Lastly, I must say 'God help those who help themselves'.
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