Bharat Rakshak

Railing against the pipeline just because 'it goes through Pakistan' is a counterproductive exercise. There are way too many who are either sufficiently naive or ignorant, or choose to have their heads buried firmly in the sand when any link between Pakistan and terror is revealed. The problem I see...

RaviBg wrote:Shell set to get permit for petrol, diesel retailing

More than three decades after they were nationalized, the wheel turns a full circle. Does anyone recall what PSUs were created from the nationalization of Shell, Esso etc by Indira Gandhi ? Burmah Shell = BPCL, Esso = HPCL ? Were there more ?

RIL Hits Gas Reserves Off Orissa Coast

Reliance Industries — the country’s largest private sector oil and gas company — has struck gas again. This time, it is off the Orissa coast in the Bay of Bengal. The in-place reserves is estimated to be about four to five trillion cubic feet.

India's New Coup In Outsourcing: Inpatient Care Facing Expense, Long Waits At Home, Westerners Fly In; A Hospital Empire Grows By JAY SOLOMON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL April 26, 2004; Page A1 Wall Street Journal URL MADRAS, India -- Last year, Terry Salo flew 22 hours from his home i...

Originally posted by Sridhar: Regarding AIII - I remember GF's statement (or maybe Atre's) giving a timeframe of end of 2004. Or am I remembering this incorrectly? ToI suggests GF was non-committal on the date. IE seems to confirm the statement. Probably in late summer. Maybe earlier if the NDA com...

The Israelis are not going to like this one bit. Considering the sanguine reaction from New Delhi, I wonder if it was their chankian way of saying "you fired another ? Umm, so what else is new ? Its not us who are p1ssed. Keep your eyes open looking for low flying F-15s with a Star of David on ...

Originally posted by Sridhar: Actually, Suraj, it appears as if Israel is just out of range if you see map you have posted above. Interesting. But Quetta is by no means the westernmost point of Pakistan. That's why I mentioned 'western Baluchistan' - if they fired from close to Zahedan in Iran or G...

Originally posted by Sridhar:
Look at the circle from Quetta, not Karachi.

I was looking at exactly that now: map

Well within range of Israel from western Baluchistan.

Not of direct relevance to Shaheen 2 but helpful to analyze range claims: great circle mapper

1500 km from Karachi
2000 km from Karachi

[quote]Originally posted by narayanan:
[QB]Hmm!!! That's right. When I want REAL QUALITY discussions I go to Sulekha. It would increase the links to various other high ranking news sites, and get traffic from those who want the Indian military news without having to trawl forum threads.

One possible suggestion for this website: Some kind of BR news section like Sulekha's newshopper, with Indian military news updated daily along with any links to other sites. The military/strategic news folders could be leveraged for the purpose. Sure, it means greater management overhead, but that ...

Rangudu makes a couple of excellent suggestions. Its not about preventing proliferation; its about retaining monopoly over a potent instrument of deterrence. "Nuclear monopolists" sounds a hell of a lot more practical than "non-proliferation supporters" - the term monopoly has im...

The most frequently dished out reasons for handling Mush with kid gloves are: a) 'Co-operation' in A'stan b) Apres moi, la deluge. In other words, the feared Islamist takeover that is so scary to US. Now, co-operation in Afghanistan has been sporadic at best, mostly upon significant arm-twisting. I'...

I still see your argument as a case of drastically exaggerating the potential of punitive action from the Saudis and Chinese if the US had been more strident in their response to Pakistani proliferation. Why would they ? To speak in terms of your description of the mindset of war and peace, the mind...

Johann, Originally posted by Johann: Pakistan unlike the other three, had the active support of countries like China and Saudi Arabia to withstand American pressure. Without their support its unlikely that Pakistan would have been able to withstand measures such as the end of American military assis...

I don't have much faith in the "we'll go easy about the nukes if you hand us Osama in fall 2004" argument. That's too simple. Too straightforward. The story doesn't end there. This isn't about just the nukes or about Osama. It doesn't answer the question of *why* the Pakis were allowed to ...

I fear an effort to tie any attempt by Iraq to get nuke tech with Paki proliferation will not help. You could have a picture of AXK/Mush and Saddam kissing each other in front of a nuke at one of Saddam's palaces and the SD will still tap dance around that. At worst, they'll blame Saddam and provide...

Jumrao: yep, that's the one I mentioned. Any FT subscribers here ?

Originally posted by kgoan: But folks, please also keep an eye out for anything *new*. i.e. Any *recent* stuff, (meaning anything written in "reputable"** media since the Xerox stuff blew up in Paks face), that mentions BCCI in the current context. kgoan: If the sordid stuff on some of th...

PAKISTAN'S INVOLVEMENT IN NARCO-TERRORISM (Congressional Record from fas.org) Link with more sublinks about BCCI, drugs and nukes Excerpts (lots more tidbits on the webpage and links): BCCI the largest criminal bank in human history, in 1972, was the center of a global laundry and a conduit for tra...

I read someplace (FAS ?) that the Prithvi is coated with radar-absorbent material. Is this true ? And if so does it in anyway affect the radar-signature vis-a-vis Agni ?

An "agni" with a range of 700km ? Maybe they should call it a "chingari"...

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Vamsee:
Roaring tiger,hidden dragon and shivering rat

How are the Pakis going to fire a missile with all those USN ships in the Arabian Sea ? What if a stray Ghauri hit the Kitty Hawk ?