Bharat Rakshak

they were a bunch who came to canada too. mostly to vancouver i believe.. as agricultural workers. some even fought in the canadian army for the british empire in world war one. anyway i don't want to hijack the thread. bose also invented the receiver that picked up marconi's transatlantic transmiss...

> India is seeing a rapid growth of clinical
> trials.

In other words, Indians are being used as gunie pigs for experimental drugs.

Since the North Korea and to some extent Iran horse has already bolted from the stables, one wonders what was the purpose of the whole drama. Obviously musharaff would never imprison the nation's top nuke scientist. It may be a convenient excuse for Pak to not hand over nukes to Saudi Arabia. They c...

Other than to scare a few pak scientists who might be thinking of becoming proliferators and to extract (fake?) plegeds not to proliferate, there appears to be no objective to this probe. ---- Pardon Recommended for Pakistan Scientist http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040205/ap...

I'm still surprised how quickly Xerox khan has moved from being a national hero to being branded a criminal. Its astonishing the amount of control US has over musharaff. It has implications for India. My best guess is that the US is trying to scare all Pak nuclear scientists & especially the ISI...

I still don't understad why musharaff has targetted xerox khan. He is being made the scape goat. I note that xerox was retired (forcefully?) after musharaff came to power. Is there some bad blood between the two? Musharaff is really playing to the American tune now. I wonder what threat they must ha...

Once musharaff does the job of clearing up n-proliferation and terrorists targeting American interests in Afg, he will be disposed of.

Perhaps some plane 'accident' will befall him like that of his predecessors.

> He said that the country's nuclear weapons were
> now under strict government control and could
> not be seized even if he was killed.

He must have divulged the location of the arsenal to the US.

has this been posted yet? Pakistan, Saudi Arabia in secret nuke pact By Arnaud de Borchgrave THE WASHINGTON TIMES ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have concluded a secret agreement on "nuclear cooperation" that will provide the Saudis with nuclear-weapons technology in excha...

> The Pakistani embassy tried to get a copy

They partly financed Pakistan's nuclear bomb program so you can be certain they got/are expecting something in return for it. However it may well be that the saudis wasted their money. US is now quietly attempting to gain control over Pak's nuclear (proliferation) program through Musharaff. The US i...

CIA blows the whistle on Pak scientists

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=58572

Since they are mining the uranium themselves, they can cook the books when it comes to accounting for it. IAEA won't know how much they have mined. Some of it can then be diverted for enrichment (secretly). Or they can do as Japan does and insist that the processed fuel be stationed on their soil. I...

They are attempting to take the same backdoor path to developing nukes as Iraq did. That is to gain mastery over the entire fuel cycle. That way they can do things in secret without IAEA finding out. ------- Iran: We'll Work With U.N. Nuclear Agency By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer TEHR...

Since its not in Russia's interest that iran aquire nukes either, there must be some behind the scenes cooperation between Russia & US about when to bomb those 2 reactors.

Same scam was pulled by France & Israel on Iraq.

They have plans to mine uranium ore themselves. This means they can process some of it secretly without ever accounting for it to the IAEA. I'm sure their decision to aquire nukes is partly based on pakistan having the bomb. Saudi arabia's funding of pakistan's nuclear program and aquisition of CSS-...

In a documentary, i've seen soviet hind choppers just explode when hit by stingers in afg. They are literally blown out of the sky with only the rotors left spinning in the air. Stingers carry a pretty small warhead.

So obviously an RPG which can knock out light tanks must pack quite a bang.

Overall I felt he was good.

Hopefully the history books will be kinder to him.

I read somewhere he was an avid computer user. Maybe he is/was on BR at some point.

> first contract with GE entails delivery of 11 > engines and second contract (after sanctions > were lifted) is for 40 new ones What if india is screwed by america and at the last moment they don't supply the engines. That will be another blow. They should sign a contract and buy all 40 GE-F404 eng...

"Tejas, meaning radiance, was chosen from a list of 20 Sanskrit names, for the fourth generation fighter."

If Iran gets the bomb, Saudi arabia will want it too. Part of America's motivation for controlling Pak's nuclear program is to prevent Saudi Arabia from having access to the bomb. Having financed pakistan's nuclear program, they may land up with nothing. Their ambassador was irate about that a while...

They better be careful not to open up a pandora's box with this issue. Some regions will be receiving less water as a result of river linking. What they need to ensure is that farmers which get surplus water upstream don't take to growing water intensive crops like cotton. They will drain all the wa...

> Also see the word tactical being used in > connotation of India. I think the NFU will be > revised This is a good catch although I do not think it implies any change in NFU. Previously India has only talked about strategic nuclear weapons. The word tactical would mean nukes might now be employed a...

> Market decides what the valuation of a currency > should. Revaluing a currency will only stick if > the market believes in this. <p>Yes, this is 100% true. The market decides and you cannot con the market into thinking your currency is worth more than it is. Any attempt to con the market and artif...

Looking at the many independant reports since 1999 onwards, I think we can conclusively say the fusion bomb either underperformed or more likely failed. <P>Janes also reported that another test weapon failed to explode and had to be dug out later. BARC made up some nonsense story that they didn't de...

> Is shooting a 50 paise coin at 1200 metres <BR>> good enough ??<P>Seems hard to believe.<P>The rifle was mounted on very stable tripod and even then, I don't see how a bullet can travel straight over such a long distance. Did the shooter compensate for the drop in trajectory... and how many shots ...

All of India is going to be like a calcutta slum when the population hits 1.5 billion. <P>Rather than increasing spending on defence, people should demand that a few billions be allocated for population control before the malthusian check hits hard.<P>

> Neshant I don't agree with you because how <BR>> can "GOI imagined on 13th may 1998 that <BR>> they should do fake test as on Oct. 1999 <BR>> there will be debate about CTBT in US <BR>> senet."<P>Doubts about verification of nuclear tests didn't just crop up now, it was a hotly debated t...

This is the May 13th not the May 11th test. I suspect they may have "faked" it for the creating doubts about the CTBT's verification. <P>Lets hope they bring it up when the voting gets underway on the CTBT in America's congress.

> The newspaper Chardi Kala is the same <BR>> newspaper, which last year, according to <BR>> New York Times correctly predicted India's <BR>> nuclear tests. <P>Isn't that the Khalistani newspaper with the big axe to grind? They are always cracking off predictions and telling nonsense tales about &qu...

I'll start digging right away!

One problem with the Russian built AK-47 is that its very difficult to lie belly down on the ground and fire accurately because the long ammo clip is a nusiance. You're either forced to crouch and fire or stand up and fire (in which case you get shot dead almost immediately). I've fired it and don't...