Sir, to sum up, I should like to give the House a broad picture of our strategy. The conflict began with infiltrators coming across the cease - fire line. We restricted our action to measures along the cease - fire line. Pakistan, however, chose to extend the area of conflict by attacking in the Chhamb sector, across the international boundary, between the State of Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan, using heavy tanks and heavy artillery. This was followed by an air raid on Amritsar as well as on points in the State of Jammu and Kashmir far from the frontier where the fighting was in progress. It was in these circumstances, and purely as a defensive measure, that our Armed Forces had no option but to take action against the basis in West Pakistan. Our advances in the Punjab have immediately achieved their objective of relieving the pressure on our troops in the Jaurian - Akhnur sector where the Pakistani forces have withdrawn and are being pursued by our troops. The enemy is still on our side of the Cease Fire Line and International frontier in certain places and have yet to be cleared from these areas. In the meanwhile, Pakistan has attempted to escalate the war in the Eastern sector. We have no quarrel with East Pakistan and while our troops have taken up positions within our in order to meet any threat of aggression by Pakistan, at the present moment I do not visualise our taking any action to escalate the war in the field except to the extent Pakistan’s action compels us to do. If Pakistan’s intention is to escalate the fighting in other fields, as evidenced by the naval bombardment of Dwaraka Port, our forces are prepared to meet the threats which may be posed by Pakistan. As far as we are concerned, our action is limited to make Pakistan realise that we will not tolerate any interference with the territorial integrity of India of which Kashmir is a part. We have to prevent the mounting of any attack by the Pakistan military machine on our territories.