Jammu, May 2 -- Amid heightened India-Pakistan tensions, Lieutenant General Pratik Sharma on Thursday assumed charge as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the strategic Northern Command. A highly decorated officer, Lieutenant General Sharma is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla, Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun and Defence Services Staff College, Wellington. Commissioned into the Madras Regiment in December 1987, he is qualified on the higher command course and has also attended a course at National Defence College, New Delhi. Prior to taking charge as GOC-in-C of Northern Command, Lt Gen Sharma was the director general of military operations and deputy chief of army staff (strategy). On assuming command, he conveyed greetings to all ranks and expressed his commitment to take forward the excellent work by his predecessors and all ranks of Northern Command....