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Malaysia dismantles Islamic State network involving workers from Bangladesh Just last year, there was an attack on a Johor police station by someone owing allegiance to IS. Later, it turned out that his entire family was an IS supporter and radicalized. There had also been some other IS-related arr...

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Sharp-eyed US-Indian satellite set to launch July 30 to monitor Earth's surface, warn of natural disasters The first equal partnership between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to take flight on July 30 with the launch of the NISAR Earth-observation satellite. Standing f...

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bala wrote: ↑17 Jul 2025 08:01. . .From East Turkestan to Tibet, and Shanghai to Manchuria, 10 regions that could declare independence or become self-governing in a post-China world.

Remember what we produced: The new map of borders and areas around China on the eve of PM Li Qiang's visit to India for G-20.

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RaviB and SS despite the outpouring of criticism of XJP he is still firmly in charge. That's correct, ramana. That's why I said before that the rumours of his earlier disappearance and latest speculation of him likely being replaced were just that, rumours, howsoever we all wished them to be true. ...

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Cain Marko wrote: ↑16 Jul 2025 03:35To hit the terror centers? Really doubt we'll be using artillery in densely populated areas...

Looks like Excalibur rounds were used on one terror camp.

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India "has tested" a Mach 8 missile with 1,500 km range as per the below article... India testing a missile that flies at eight times the speed of sound, hits targets 1,500 km away https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/india-testing-a-missile-that-flies-at-eight-times-the-...

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There was never any doubt that it was PL-15 and not PL-15E.

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Issue Brief, about a year old on East Asia, again published by C3S.

The Developing Military Alliance in North-East Asia

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Want to expand the focus to East Asia and the Americas as they have an impact on India. You are right. The situation there is becoming dangerous and it has an immediate and direct impact on India In this connection, my October 2024 paper in C3S: ASEAN, China, and Japan – a pas de trois I intend to ...

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RaviB, thanks.

The last sentence above demands 'political system reform' which lends itself to different interpretations, including XJP's stepping down or removal.

Of course, the entire thrust of the article is a direct criticism of XJP's policies.

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Jaguar crashes in Rajasthan. More details awaited.

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Some reports have said it was PL-15 and not PL-15E

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rohitvats wrote: ↑07 Jul 2025 17:57- The lesser talked about aspect of attack on Nur Khan Air Base.

Very well made, Rohit.

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B2 bombers also carry nukes... B2s are stealth bombers and anyway, the Chinese radars don't register anything! On a more serious note, it is the profile of the missile that would lend to interpretation whether it is a strategic missile or not. That's why dual-use missiles especially in the fog of w...

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After US-Iran strike, India may be developing its own massive bunker busters - ET In a significant strategic move, India is reportedly advancing the development of a new class of high-powered bunker-buster missiles , drawing inspiration from the recent deployment of American GBU-57/A Massive Ordnan...

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India readies another water shock for Pakistan - ET In the wake of the Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attack in Pahalgam, India intensified its strategic response, not only diplomatically and militarily but also hydrologically -- by suspending the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) which governs sharing of wat...

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'Charade at Pakistan’s behest': India calls arbitration court under Indus treaty 'illegal'; rejects its authority - ToI India on Friday dismissed the Court of Arbitration under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty as illegal, firmly rejecting its authority. The ministry of external affairs snubbed the “sup...

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The results of 'blackmail' are never predictable especially in international relationship. Blackmailers either do not realize that or are willing to take that risk in which case they reap the consequences and are themselves responsible whatever fate befalls them. Blackmailing on borrowed strength is...

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The biggest reason for Iran's capitulation, apart from the severe pasting that they received, was Russia's indifference on June 23 when Iranian FM met Putin. After gas-lighting everything everywhere, China has also kept mum especially after GBU-57. Iran was shown the riot act, in a way by both its a...

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Coming to think of it, the sub-conscious frustration that we Indians actually face is that Pakistan is not seen as "defeated" by Aam Pakistanis... Comments like "Losing media narrative", "Not inflicting enough damage" etc. comes from this frustration... ---- Losing H&a...

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The WB appointed also a Court of Arbitration (CoA) on the same issues that the Neutral Expert (NE) would be addressing.
India must say that since the IWT is in abeyance, it would not be able to entertain any communication from or to the the NE or the CoA or the WB or the PIC of TSP.

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Is it fair to say that Beijing, who was perhaps earlier thought of as a serious rival and threat, should now be viewed as an openly hostile neighbour, if not an outright enemy? In the aftermath of the Pahalgam crisis can we say that the Chinese, who were always pro Pakistani, have now made a clear,...

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Gautam, my view is that Shehbaz gave it to Asim Munir in order to save his own skin. The defeat was enormous. Munir wanted him to be saved because he was the schemer of the war. He threatened Shehbaz to generate a false narrative of great resistance by the Army, huge loss of Indian assets, India see...

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Does the B2 bombing of the three Iranian nuclear sites overnight queer the pitch for TSP's support for Nobel Prize for Trump as the Great Satan has bombed a fellow Muslim state or is it all par for the course? After all, TSP is the sole reason for what is happening in Iran today with its AQ Khan/Mus...

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Pakistan to nominate Trump for Peace Nobel over 'intervention' with India - ToI In a move likely to stir diplomatic discussion across the region, *the Shehbaz Sharif-led Pakistan govt announced on Saturday that it will formally recommend US President Donald Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, cit...

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Bigger Indus plan: 113km canal to take surplus to Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan - ToI After taking quick short-term measures to utilise waters from the Indus river system, India has now moved to a bigger plan of inter-basin water transfers by initiating a feasibility study for constructing a 113 km...

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gakakkad wrote: ↑13 Jun 2025 21:03
Aditya_V wrote: ↑13 Jun 2025 13:54 How come no Band Baja Barat coverage for Asim Munir visit to USA tomorrow, I thought all of Pakistan will be going gaga over their Field Marshal in Washington?

Because there is no vijjit lol .white house today denied any such visit.

What?

SSridhar · Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022 DP = Deep Penetration

DP = Deep Penetration

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vinod wrote: ↑12 Jun 2025 12:40There is news that Pakistan is increasing the defence budget by a whopping 20%.

Yes, it has to cover all the losses after OP.Sindoor.

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A Deshmukh wrote: ↑11 Jun 2025 14:07Before that, we need to soften them up internally - food riots, no fuel, no power.

Unpredictable supply of water !! Most importantly.

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TSP’s lack of depth is more a curse as the 4-day war has so thoroughly shown. One, we were able to effortlessly hit every nook & corner of TSP. There was no hiding place. We broke no sweat in swatting them. Secondly, we proved that such countries shouldn’t aspire to be nuclear powers, even setti...

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Xi's disappearance happens regularly. I do not read anything into it at all, even if it were true.

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^ The farcical DTTI programme between India and the US had I-Star as one of its flagship projects. By c. 2018 , it was revealed that both countries were involved in I-STAR under DTTI. The I-STAR was to get a business jet, modified with a synthetic aperture radar, capable of very high resolution at v...

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Amber G. wrote: ↑09 Jun 2025 10:38 Okay here it goes ..

Thank you for a technical, hilarious but increasingly factual state of affairs of the nuclear weapons of TSP.

Like for example, the ollapse of a quantum superposition state when measured ! Classic. Probably applies to every sphere of Pakistani activity.

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One thing about TSP, they sure move fast. Inducted in months? They move fast because of two reasons: One, they live just to fight India another day irrespective of increasing margins of defeat (and the latest one is very massive indeed). The greater the margin, the more sophisticated their purchase...

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. . . great to see local language media step in with such quality programs. As we know, the penetration is much much higher than english media and will help. Very true, we need to have vernacular penetration. At Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S), we have produced several Tamil analyses on China.

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Thank you Anujan ji, for the transcript. Great work.

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The Bloomberg interview shows another flaw, namely poor coordination between Indian embassy in S'pore and the delegation visiting SLD. The two should have discussed and denied an interview to a blatantly anti-India Bloomberg.

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US President Donald Trump says, "Pakistan representatives are coming in next week. We're very close to making a deal with India. And I wouldn't have any interest in making a deal with either if they were going to be at war with each other..." From USTR site, U.S. total goods trade with Pa...

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Voice of ISRO launches Ganesan Grahadurai retires after 38 years - WION When a rocket launch mission by the Indian Space Agency (ISRO) is in progress, for journalists at the spaceport and those watching the live stream, only one voice matters - that of Ganesan Grahadurai. As the Range Operations Di...

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