Pakistan Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa, Other Prominent Figures Condole Death Of CDS Bipin Rawat
As tributes pour in from across the world for India's Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, who was killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, the top brass of the Pakistan Army has also condoled his death.
Pakistan Army's spokesman in a short statement posted on Twitter said that Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Nadeem Raza and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa expressed condolences.
"General Nadeem Raza, CJCSC & General Qamar Javed Bajwa, COAS express condolences on tragic death of #CDS General #BipinRawat, his wife and loss of precious lives in a helicopter crash in India,¡± Pakistan Armed Forces Spokesperson Major General Babar Iftikhar tweeted.
Pakistan Army chief paid tributes
Pakistan Army Chief Bajwa and General Bipin Rawat knew each other very well from their days in UN peacekeeping missions.
Both General Rawat and General Bajwa were involved in the UN peacekeeping mission in 2008. He was posted to the Congo, which was battling the African Civil War. General Rawat was given the task of leading the North Kiev Brigade of Congo under the peace mission, while General Bajwa led the South Kiev Brigade based in Bukavu.
The two Kivu brigades were under the Eastern Divison then commanded by former army chief General Bikram Singh.
Major Adil Raja, a retired officer of the Pakistan Army also condoled the death of General Rawat.
"It's the decent thing to do as a soldier. Again, sorry for your loss sir. In our Punjabi folklore they say, "dushman maray te khushian na manawoo, kadday sajna v mar jaana" Means: "Don't celebrate the deaths of your enemies as some day friends would also die," Major Raja wrote on Twitter while responding to an Ex-Indian Army Officer.
General Bipin Rawat was Army chief when India carried out airstrikes targeting a terror training centre in Pakistan's Balakot in February 2019.
General Rawat died after a military helicopter crashed in Coonnor in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.?
The CDS had taken off from Sulur Airbase for Wellington and was accompanied by his wife Madhulika Rawat, his DA Brigadier LS Lidder, SO Lieutenant Colonel Harjinder Singh, among other defence officials.
"Around noon today, an IAF Mi 17 V5 helicopter with a crew of 4 members carrying the CDS and 9 other passengers met with a tragic accident near Coonoor, TN," the Indian Air Force said in a tweet.
Group Captain Varun Singh, SC, Directing Staff at DSSC, the sole survivor of the crash, is undergoing treatment for his injuries at Military Hospital in Wellington.
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