{"id":77617,"date":"2020-10-10T20:16:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=77617"},"modified":"2020-10-10T20:20:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T14:50:03","slug":"indian-army-never-had-a-muslim-regiment-false-claim-of-desertion-by-it-in-1965-india-pak-war-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/indian-army-never-had-a-muslim-regiment-false-claim-of-desertion-by-it-in-1965-india-pak-war-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Muslim’ regiment that never existed in Indian army blamed for refusing to fight in 1965 war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social media has been brimming with claims that the Muslim regiment of the Indian Army had refused to fight in India\u2019s 1965 war with Pakistan. Several users have been using the viral message to question the ‘loyalty’ of Muslim candidates to be appointed to the posts of IAS and IPS officers. Twitter user @FansYati shared this message on September 15. His tweet had been liked 2,400 times and received 998 retweets at the time of writing. (archived link to the tweet<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Another Twitter user @DK_Dube<\/a> also posted the same tweet.<\/p>\n

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The claim has gone viral on both Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and is also being circulated in the form of a video<\/a>. It was also the subject of a tweet by BJP\u2019s national media panellist Yasshveer Raghav in October 2017. Alt News noticed that this claim has been doing the rounds online since 2017.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Yasshveer Raghav (@iyashveerraghav) October 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fact-check<\/strong><\/h4>\n

After performing a keyword search, we found a list of all the regiments of the Indian Army<\/a> in an ABP News report from June 22, 2020. There is no Muslim regiment on the list. Apart from this, we also came across a list of the Indian Army’s caste-based regiments in an article by Jagran Josh<\/a> dated July 15, 2020. There is no mention of a Muslim regiment here either.<\/p>\n

A Times of India report<\/a> dated November 30, 2017 also states that there was never a Muslim regiment in the Indian Army. This report was penned by Lieutenant General (Retd.)<\/a> Syed Ata Hasnain.<\/p>\n

BBC News Hindi recently published a fact-check report<\/a> on the viral claim. Major General (Retd.) Shashi Asthana was quoted as saying, \u201cThere was never any regiment in the army known as the Muslim Regiment. These regiments were either formed in the British period based on race and ethnicity or these were groups which functioned as a princely army, such as the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regiment. This regiment was an army of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lieutenant General (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain was also quoted in the report. He said, “This is propaganda and the Indian Army has never had a Muslim regiment for the last 200 years. Apart from regiments like the Sikh, Punjab, and Garhwal in the British Indian Army, there were also the Baloch and Frontier Force regiments. After the partition, the Baloch and Frontier regiments moved to Pakistan and the Punjab regiment exists in both Pakistan and India.”<\/p>\n

The BBC’s piece discusses the 1965 war against Pakistan mentioned in the viral claim \u2014 “The 1965 India-Pakistan war which was cited in the fake claims of the Muslim regiment putting down their weapons is in fact the same battle where Quartermaster general Abdul Hamid destroyed more than four Pakistani tanks and was posthumously awarded the Paramvir Chakra, the country’s top military award.”<\/p>\n

A Muslim regiment in the Indian Army has therefore never existed. Regiments with caste-based names came into existence long ago and their names have not been changed after Independence. However, this does not mean that only Jats are recruited in the Jat regiment and Rajputs in the Rajput regiment. People of all castes and religions are included in all regiments. The religion or caste of these soldiers has nothing to do with their regiment.<\/p>\n

Alt News also reached out to Major Navdeep. \u201cThere was never a Muslim regiment in the Indian Army. The Indian Army is an apolitical, secular institution where all the soldiers live and fight together under a shared national flag,” he said.<\/p>\n

Context behind the false, communal message<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The first part of the viral message makes the false claim about the ‘Muslim’ regiment allegedly laying down their arms. The second part moves away from the army and to the IAS\/IPS posts. Recently, right-wing media outlet Sudarshan News launched a television series to falsely portray how people belonging to the Muslim community want to occupy Indian government posts in large numbers and carry out ‘UPSC jihad’. After the first episode was aired, Alt News published a fact-check report<\/a> on the misleading narratives used by the channel bolstered by misinformation, false claims, and communalism.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court halted the broadcast of the series after the fourth episode was aired and the matter is still being heard in the top court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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