Floating company for exploding pagers was a masterstroke, says Army chief

Describing Israel 's move to set up a shell company to dispatch "exploding pagers" to Lebanon to hit at Iran-backed Hezbollah as a "masterstroke", General Upendra Dwivedi on Tuesday said "the war does not start the day you start fighting, it starts the day you start planning". "If you talk about the pagers, it is a Taiwanese company, supplying to a Hungarian company and thereafter giving it to them (Hezbollah operatives). The shell company which was created is something which is a masterstroke by the Israelis. It requires years and years of preparation," the Army chief said.

Asserting the need for India to have various levels of inspection to prevent such targeted attacks, Gen Dwivedi said, "Supply chain interruption or interception is something we have to be very watchful about. We need to have various levels of inspection."