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- 22 Oct 2010 00:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: The Curious Case of Daood Gilani alias David Headley & co
- Replies: 2267
- Views: 351351
Re: The Curious Case of Daood Gilani alias David Headley & c
Ramanna,we have been redcued to the status of a banana ,coconut or mango republic-take your pick, thanks to Dr.Mis-singh.Missing when the CWG was being mismanaged and funds looted until he was forced to appear when the sh*t hit the fan,missing when Kashmir burned for weeks,and his response to resol...
- 20 Oct 2010 01:21
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Sep 03, 2010
- Replies: 2841
- Views: 500213
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Sep 03, 20
Can't MMS point out to his US interlocuters that Israel has nukes, US does not want Iran to have the same. Regional imbalance there, so whats wrong with regional imbalance in "South Asia". Why should there by any balance between between a terrorist,l nuke-peddling, Islamo fascists state w...
- 10 Oct 2010 01:03
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Military Aviation
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 1197166
Re: Indian Military Aviation
What kind of interview is done on the country. This is how the Indian media has come down so low. There is no patriotism in them to protect the country. Are the reporting for the foreign govt. This is how in Europe before the WWII media was behaving. Most of the media had no clue to that were worki...
- 31 Aug 2010 00:27
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Aug 09, 2010
- Replies: 2823
- Views: 450771
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Aug 09, 20
He has a whole thesis on how he wants dawood to lead India since he's so much better than the SDRE lot we have now and the "bhai" is the part you have a problem with?Nihat wrote: With all due respect shiv. , can you please explain the use of the bhai in refrence to an abscoding terrorist.
Nice.
- 19 Aug 2010 23:42
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
- Replies: 3245
- Views: 569583
Re: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
The Economist: Contest of the century As China and India rise in tandem, their relationship will shape world politics. Shame they do not get on better The Chinese trolls are out in numbers in the comments sections. I find it really funny how angry they get when being compared to India. I suspect th...
- 18 Aug 2010 01:16
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
- Replies: 3942
- Views: 707356
Re: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
Good point. The language is weak and casual and completely inverts the aggressor-victim equation. Similar usage by Indian diplomats, E.g., "Sharing our concern about terrorism" leaves the other party guessing so what action is required from me? IT is time India minds not only her language...
- 15 Aug 2010 13:51
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Aug 09, 2010
- Replies: 2823
- Views: 450771
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Aug 09, 20
I am not suggesting to forgive or forget. All I am saying is that we can possibly do a more detached analysis. Detached analysis never won anybody anything. Wars are only won when enemies are properly identified and energies channeled towards defeating them. All this equivocation helps no one. The ...
- 05 Aug 2010 23:57
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): July 07, 2010
- Replies: 2850
- Views: 443681
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): July 07, 2
This after working overtime India will not send to Pakistan the magistrate who recorded the statement of lone captured 26/11 attacker but is open to allowing him as well as the investigating officer to appear before a Pakistani court through video conferencing. What were you expecting? You can't re...
- 15 Jul 2010 00:41
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
It was in the context of UN assignments.Guess even a remote introspect that there could be rotten apples in our forces makes some folks pedantic,point taken.I'll start considering all reports in media about crimes committed by personnel in our forces as 'baseless allegations'. What's pedantic about...
- 14 Jul 2010 04:42
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
Guess you have some comprehension issues,Anjan,time you revisit my previous posts on this topic. Probably you failed to notice/understand the phrase "i heard"/"buzzing in the press" and you ask for official reports! Sorry! Wish i had access to military documents of IDF,but i don...
- 14 Jul 2010 03:46
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
Oh well.. I ask for official reports that prove these allegations and you come back with news reports. And sadly news reports that actually seem to buttress my point. "srael-India relations, which have been nurtured over the years, could be threatened because of media allegations " The so...
- 14 Jul 2010 01:15
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
Google,Pargha..there are still plenty of links up there to back what i have stated.Like i said,the blogs on jpost were buzzing back in 2005/06 about the Indian contingent of UNPKF accepting bribes and allowing Hezbollah to move arms and ammunition.Probably just a few bad apple,but bad nevertheless....
- 17 Jun 2010 23:53
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: The Trash Thread in the Trash Can (Use 4545 to Merge Posts)
- Replies: 1207
- Views: 230137
Re: LCA News and Discussions
I think someone has to have the sense to come out with a standardization policy for India at a component and sub-component level and India goes the NATO stds ways and standardize around ISO and equivalent. This is ABSOLUTELY crucial. That way, you can risk proof against an obsolescent standard, and...
- 10 Jun 2010 09:20
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
^^^ that is the crux of the problem. as long as the forces consider themselves to be 'customers' and the asian equivalent of the armed forces of burundi, we will continue to have this problem. why is it so difficult to fathom that the forces have as much responsibility to get indigenous items in se...
- 10 Jun 2010 03:16
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
This is exactly the hyperbole, which leads to an "I am superior than thou" attitude which is the bane of the user-developer relationship, where the former dictates to the latter driven by a perception of superiority. For your attention, do you think that Saraswat - a man who gave up the o...
- 10 Jun 2010 03:12
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
Regarding bash the army comment, I being the mango tax payer have every right to criticize them if they are not up to my satisfaction because I am the sole reason of existence for them. After all they use the same logic while criticizing DRDO, so it must be right, isn't it? Oh Absolutely. Subject t...
- 28 May 2010 01:27
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
While I agree in toto to whatever you've said in your post above, let us not go down the bolded part. First part of your bolded statement and second are not related in this case. Well he did mention acquisitions but I'll let it slip. The trouble is too often this is taken as a blanket defence of th...
- 27 May 2010 23:57
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
More disturbing is the fact that wrongdoing in the army are not being redressed even after given opertunities in its own eminent domain and being corrected from outside. Gives a lot of ammo against the institution to question its judgement in every decision from the human rights to arms acquisition...
- 21 May 2010 05:06
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2010
- Replies: 2848
- Views: 444092
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2
Basically what I suspected all along. US-brokered deal. India talks Kashmir & TSP goes slow on LET. Basically a quid pro quo. Now that MMS has sold India on making love to TSP, next step is US-mediated Kashmir deal: LOC++. I can just imagine the spinning; would do even Mutthiah Murlitharan and ...
- 08 May 2010 23:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
- Replies: 3245
- Views: 569583
Re: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
“Alarmist” Home Ministry straining ties, says Jairam in China - The Hindu Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said “alarmist” and “paranoid” policies of the Home Ministry towards Chinese companies and projects in India were threatening to derail the post-Copenhag...
- 24 Apr 2010 03:40
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3520
- Views: 840379
Re: Armoured Vehicles Discussion Thread
Yes, technically speaking the evaluations are confidential, but its not unheard off to have officers speaking off-the-record to journalists. The level of enforced confidentiality is not akin to that of .. say India's missile program. Weapons evaluations very much are classified. What we hear are ve...
- 22 Apr 2010 03:08
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3520
- Views: 840379
Re: Armoured Vehicles Discussion Thread
Its basically logistics and 'lets not rock the boat'. The army brass while as patriotic as they come, are rather set in their ways. They have certain preconceived notions and its takes an effort to change that view. But, the fact to take away is that news is getting around and the Arjun is here to ...
- 21 Apr 2010 02:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Geopolitical thread
- Replies: 3955
- Views: 617029
Re: Geopolitical thread
Just want to remind all of us that - Increasing the GDP to >$5T or being 2nd largest economy will not be sufficient for India. Then the scale will change to per-capita GDP. So no matter what India will be running behind some goal or other. IMO It is better to look inward and strengthen internal soc...
- 17 Apr 2010 03:37
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Naval Discussion
- Replies: 3938
- Views: 1478413
Re: Indian Naval Discussion
character assasination ? really ? as if we've not known before this IN episode about the Russian arms mafia, natashas and and how kickbacks influence deals. you'd be kidding yourself if you thought that all the men who evaluate equipment in India are blooming angels. the biggest drawback of the Ind...
- 17 Apr 2010 01:34
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Naval Discussion
- Replies: 3938
- Views: 1478413
Re: Indian Naval Discussion
maybe DRDO, ADA, HAL need to pick a leaf from the Russians and Americans and start offering escorts and Green Labels to high ranking military officials ? And fully paid luxury trips to firangi lands too. Then we might see more of our indigenous products finding their way through.. I do believe this...
- 15 Apr 2010 03:29
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: BSF, CRPF and other Paramilitary Forces Discussion
- Replies: 929
- Views: 322123
Re: BSF,CRPF and other Paramilitary Forces Discussion.
Before any bifurication what we need is an acknowledgement the CRPF leadership failed to transform CRPF into a 'warrior' force which it should have been for at least 5 years past. I wonder if we really want to CRPF to be a 'warrior' force. Personally, I find the lathi wielding Indian cop on the str...
- 09 Apr 2010 00:09
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
The SSC officers of the Army, on their leaving the army, should be offered permanent commission in this force, if they choose to join it. This used to be true for at least the police earlier. As I understand it, the IPS was not happy with the fact that such officers would carry over their seniority...
- 08 Apr 2010 12:12
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
It is the Army's mandate to protect the integrity of the country from "military" threats...Today, the prime source of threats to most countries is in the so-called "sub conventional" domain... There are two nuclear armed countries sitting on the east, west and north of the count...
- 08 Apr 2010 03:58
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
City chiefs of police, for example, chief of NYPD or Chicago PD, or San Francisco PD, or LAPD, are ranked in Code 7, along with full colonels, and US Consuls in foreign lands. In India, of course, police chiefs of our cities are comparing themselves to Army Commanders in status. This is what I've b...
- 07 Apr 2010 05:39
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
Anjan ji, in all CI areas, the Army has complete primacy in decision-making, regardless of what the official gazette might say about protocol precedence..Heck, in areas under AFSPA, servicemen cant even be prosecuted as per "normal" procedures.. I dont really understand your point...Are y...
- 25 Mar 2010 01:42
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Army: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3966
- Views: 1243490
Re: Indian Army: News & Discussion
^^^Prahaar ji, everyone working in India, from the chapraasi to the marginal farmer to the BPO emplyee to the Army officer has Indian conditions to deal with...Are you saying that in terms of "precedence order" of effort/difficulty/misery, the relative order between the serviceman and pol...
- 02 Feb 2010 06:48
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3520
- Views: 840379
Re: Armoured Vehicles Discussion Thread
Which is better? Giving all money to Russia vs Giving money to local suppliers? Can you also please suggest a price on freedom from foreign suppliers when sh1t hits the fan? (Do you recall the issue with drag chutes during Kargil war? The cost of Krasnopol during Kargil war? How everything seemed t...
- 31 Jan 2010 01:51
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Jan. 29, 2010
- Replies: 2837
- Views: 382584
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Jan. 29, 2010
said "I asked you not to kill, but did not ask you to stop hissing or showing your fangs". We are that snake taking bruises from everyone and anyone because we refuse to stand up and value ourselves. semi whining take it fwiw. There is also the saying that if you unsheathe your sword then...
- 30 Jan 2010 04:07
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Jan. 29, 2010
- Replies: 2837
- Views: 382584
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP), Jan. 29, 2010
C'mon guys, it is over. We should stop this immature discussion of abondoning Pak players in IPL. His excelency The Prime Minister Dr. MMS has a different opinion than all of us here. We should now start showing respect and not criticise Dr.Singh. Otherwise we all will be Hindutvavaadis and someone...
- 21 Jan 2010 01:18
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP) - Dec 30 - 2009
- Replies: 2838
- Views: 422735
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP) - Dec 30 - 2009
On one point though I agree with the sympathizers. In my opinion, that there has been no terror attack since 26/11 is only partly due to Indian vigilance, and virtually has nothing to do with any posibility, if it all it exists, of India militarily retaliating to the next provociation. Its more lik...
- 18 Jan 2010 12:09
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP) - Dec 30 - 2009
- Replies: 2838
- Views: 422735
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP) - Dec 30 - 2009
As long as industry can sell products in IndiaPakistan, terrorism is not a problem. Terrorism is a problem only for the tourism and aviation industries. I had made a post with some thoughts on IndiaPakistan yesterday - I will merely link it here http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?p=8075...
- 18 Jan 2010 02:57
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP) - Dec 30 - 2009
- Replies: 2838
- Views: 422735
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP) - Dec 30 - 2009
I'd imagine industry has the most to lose with terrorism. Wasn't it a CII panel that recommended strong reprisals to terrorism in the wake of the mumbai attacks(and causing lots of takleef all around)? I imagine that like most Indians they couldn't care less if the army/police/CPMF continue with a s...
- 13 Jan 2010 02:30
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
- Replies: 4621
- Views: 1476522
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
RAW is a "wing" of the cabinet secretariat and (to quote from their webpage) "The Cabinet Secretariat is under the direct charge of the Prime Minister." http://cabsec.nic.in/role.htmAmit J wrote: I thought the RAW reported into the PMO
- 13 Jan 2010 00:56
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
- Replies: 4621
- Views: 1476522
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
As I understand it, the RAW is a part of the cabinet secretariat and hence not directly accountable to Parliament. Their budget is therefore not available to the public.Brando wrote:Do they have an "intelligence budget" ?