It is this so- called policy of being “against HR violation probe against a specific country” that led our government to only protest and not ask for specific probe against Pakistan for the most heinous HR abuses during the Kargil conflict despite Pakistan being a signatory to relevant UN conventions in war. Captain Saurabh Kalia and five other soldiers who were captured by Pakistani forces on May 15, 1999 were brutally tortured for 22 long days before they were shot, and their mutilated corpses delivered to India. “The postmortem revealed that the Pakistan army had indulged in the most heinous acts; of burning their bodies with cigarettes, piercing ear-drums with hot rods, puncturing eyes before removing them, breaking most of the teeth and bones, chopping off various limbs and private organs of these soldiers besides inflicting all sorts of physical and mental tortures before shooting them dead, as evidenced by the bullet wound to the temple,” says an entry in Wikipedia. During the same conflict, Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja, whose MiG was shot down over Indian soil on May 27, 1999, was used for target practice by Pakistani soldiers after he bailed out and opened his parachute. Yet our gutless mandarins in their cocooned offices in North and South Blocks never even proposed or asked for a UN probe, or even took up the issue with the UN, aside from routinely protesting to Pakistan.