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To: goldsnow who wrote (42792)	10/12/1999 2:32:00 PM
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Pakistan crisis: Indian army on full alert - senior defence official NEW DELHI (AFX) - The Indian army was placed on "full alert" after the government of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was dismissed after it sacked army chief General Pervez Musharraf, a senior defence official said. "All the three wings of the armed forces (the army, the air force and navy) are on full alert," he said. "Reports emanating from Pakistan are a matter of grave concern and we are closely monitoring the situation," a spokesman from Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's office added. Vajpayee's spokesman said the premier held an emergency meeting with members of the National Security Council and his other senior leaders. He said the Cabinet Committee on Security will meet on Wednesday soon after the new coalition government of Vajpayee is sworn in. Police in Islamabad said police personnel around Sharif's house have been disarmed and troops have told him not to leave. State-run television also went off the air after troops entered the building following Musharraf's dismissal. India's former director general of military operations, General V.R. Raghavan said the possibility of restoring peace between the arch-rivals "will be wide open to question." Raghavan said the situation would be "troublesome" for India. "It is a tussle for power between Sharif and the military authorities. And the army has acted," Raghavan said. He told the private Star TV network that India had "learned to live with this (differences between the Pakistani army and political estblishment)." "It is clear that there were deep differences between the Pakistani army and the political establishment ... it is not clear why he (Musharraf) was sacked," Raghavan said. He said India must not "underplay" the situation "which is serious and will create great instability" in the South Asian region. Sreedhar (eds: one word), a defence expert at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, said the "struggle for power between the armed forces and civilian authorities has now come to the fore. "It was becoming obvious for some time that a showdown was imminent," he said. jay/smc/jms For more information and to contact AFX: www.afxnews.com and www.afxpress.com