 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pakutanga kweHondo yeChina neIndiamumatsutso a1962, Pathania akanga achiri Director-General weNCC. Muna November, apo kurwisana kwakatangazve muArunachal Pradesh, akangoerekana adzorerwa kubasa achingopiwa chiziviso chemaawa mashomanana. Akapiwa mutungamiri we4th Infantry Division, kuti atsive Major-General Niranjan Prasad uyo boka racho rakanga rakundwa zvakanyanya kuNamka Chu mudunhu reTawang. Muna 2012, The Indian Express yakawana kuti mapeji mana emapeji makumi mana anofukidza chinyorwa kune ichiri chakavanzika Henderson Brooks Bhagat Report, ongororo yekuita kweuto reIndia panguva yekunetsana, yakataura kuti Gurukota reDziviriro panguva iyoyo V. K. Krishna Menon anga achibatanidzwa zvakananga mukushandura vakuru vakuru, kusanganisira Pathania. Maererano neExpress, manyuko akataurwa muRondedzero akanyanya kusarudzwa uye akatsoropodza zvakasimba kugadzwa kwaPathania uye kuita kwe4th Infantry Division pasi pake. Mushumo wacho wakataura kuti pasinei nokuti Pathania akanga asina kutungamirira mauto kwenguva yakareba, akanga achiri kugadzwa mutungamiriri weboka. 