Indian Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi commended Israel’s strategic use of a shell company to deliver pagers modified with explosives to Hezbollah, leading to a significant security breach. This operation,

Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi said that the move by Israel to set up shell companies for manufacturing of explosives-laden communication devices was a masterstroke.

Speaking at the Chanakya Defence Dialogues, the Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi said that "the war does not start the way you start fighting. It starts the day you start planning. The shell company which had been created is something which is a masterstroke by the Israelis.