New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Singh Modi has directed his armed forces to organize a ‘carnival’ to celebrate 50 years of Pakistan-India 1965 war, thesenlive reported.

According to details, the Modi’s government has plans to organize a three-week long event that coincide with those of the 1965 war, across the country. The three-week long carnival will commence from September 1 to September 23, in which Indian armed forces, except Navy, have been asked to organise tableaux, exhibitions, processions, public lectures and film shows.

The Telegraph, a Kolkata based paper, stated, “The Indian Navy is barely involved in the planned carnival.”

“On September 7, 1965, the Pakistan Navy, in its first assault, had bombed the Indian temple town of Dwarka on the Gujarat coast, about 200km from Karachi. The Indian Navy’s fleet was in refit in Bombay and there was practically no response to Pakistan’s ‘Operation Dwarka’,” it added.

“Indian sources record that Pakistan’s naval bombing of Dwarka, chiefly targeted at a radar station, was to little effect. Six years later, in the 1971 war, the Indian Navy’s “Operation Trident” – the bombing of Karachi – is described in military academies as a classic manoeuvre,” the article added.