Bharat Rakshak

Paul

Not just SBI, all banks PSU and Pvt Banks in India report to IRS on NRO/NRE accounts held by US persons (including non-immigrants). I am fairly certain that a lot of NRIs in US be it citizens, LPRs or those on visas are either delinquent on FBAR or are oblivious to FBAR filing requirements. The thi...

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@RAJAGOPALAN1951
Tamil Nadu Finance Minister
@ptrmadurai
insisted on a Special Flight from Chennai to Lucknow to attend GST meet. Why to change three flights? But
@CMOTamilnadu @mkstalin rejected. PTR cited Andhra Telangana Ministers engaged special flight. Why not myself. Ego is dangerous.

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I saw it in a video on youtube. Will post it once I find it.

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S Radhakrishnan was a former Faculty at King's college London. Paying a visit there he said the Brits did great tyaag by voluntarily relinquishing power in 1947.

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Bengal partition was along 1905 lines. Hence the Bengal delta was never going to be ours. Undivided Punjab and Bengal almost went to Pakistan.... did not happen, and we ended up getting the Kashmir valley. The outcome could have been much worse. Areas we lost we were Tharparkar(sindh), Sylhet and CH...

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Aisa Koi Sagga Nahin, Jisko Nitish ne Thaga nahin!

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Let them loot, but US will have to supply spares which they may or not choose to do. Pakis cant afford the fuel or spares. And Abandoned Equipment is never well maintained. Even Lubricants and Engine Oils will have to be changed. Paki M-109 also probably have a problem as all the Armies had abused ...

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@birunikhorasan has disappeared from Twitter. Getting his comeuppance from the Taliban.

He used to defend the Afghan Islamic invasions of India on SM.

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Videos circulating on WhatsApp showing talibans wearing pashtun hats, crowing that they have defeated amreekis, claiming kashmir is theirs and declaring jihad. That didn't take too long. We are ready with white cloths, bring it on! They tried the same tactics in the 90s under Gen Mirza Aslam Beg. P...

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^This has been gleaned from Pashtun Civil war thread. All discussed in BRF a decade and a half ago.

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Same mistakes as in Iraq. They fired the Iraqi army rank and file who went on to form the sunni ISIS.

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There is a Hazara in KPK and then there are the Hazaras of Baluchistan/Afghania. The Hazaras who attacked in J&K are the Hazaras from KPK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazara,_Pakistan Are they both the same group ethnically. I think not as I have not read of Shia Hazaras being ethnically clean...

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They will follow Mao's dictum, "The side controlling the countryside after dusk will win the war"

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Gerald Bull was Belgian.

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I recall a news article saying the Maj Gen commanding the Kargil division was busy setting up a Zoo while infiltration was going on. Also COAS Mallik allowed Barkha Dutt to function in that area at the height of the conflict with Sat phones....All of them were let off scot free.

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XJP visiting Lhasa per twitter. What does that tell us?

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With 50% of Afghanistan under Taliban and more areas expected as September draws nearer, can we expect a repeat of activities of the 90s when Afghan Mujahideen were diverted to Kashmir?

Is there any indication in the media or from thinktanks that this might happen?

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Paul, I don't think XJP will enter the Afghan trap. They learnt for FSU and moreover, all this is their near abroad and they know the region quite well. Taliban have said that they will not allow Uyghur militiant activity once they take over Afghanistan. So far the Chinese seem to be playing it well.

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Seeing lots of tweets related to "Konganadu" appearing on twitter. Who's pushing this agenda to split up TN?

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Ramana, I agree that China will not make FSU's mistake willingly. However there will be a vacuum in Afghanistan and some one have to fill it up. In the 1970s much before Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Zbignew Brezenski NSA for Carter, had identified Central Asia as soft underbelly of FSU and planne...

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In that case why wait for 20 years? This could have been expedited during ombaba’s 8 years. My guess is he was more amenable to such social work. Why wait Cheena to spend $1 trillion cumulative on military before activating Turks? Curious. This is answered by this Having witnessed and welcomed Amer...

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Other countries are rushing to fill in the vacuum in Afghanistan https://www.ft.com/content/d1e2f127-d04d-4f17-9ae6-c8f716a145c6 The graveyard of empires calls to China Military presence may accompany the extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to Afghanistan Afghanistan is not known as the gravey...

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We only have a handful of tweets to go by to verify this theory....but I think it will happen Scripturient @56Dtweets · 59m Tashkurgan is Pamiri Nizari majority btw. Tashkurgan is the part of China where Badakhshan links up to, not a Uyghur majority part. The USA deliberately eased this for the Tali...

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https://twitter.com/detresfa_/status/14 ... 52/photo/1

Chinese AD network along the LAC

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The larger question is...how to secure India's northern borders.

Hence pls see my reply in Great Game thread.....this was discussed with great enthusiasm in 2008.

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Continued from Afghanistan thread..... I think you are not looking farther into the past to see the roots of the problem. This problem of securing India's north west frontiers existed long before the Americans came, even before the British came to India. JN Sarkar's book Anecdotes of Aurangzeb talks...

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Suggest you go through the following thread....viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4177

We need to play the Great Game....if not it will play us.

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Till 1739 (Nadir Shahs invasion) Afghanistan: Ghazni, Kabul etc. were part of the Indian subcontinent. Ahmed Shah who was Nadir Shahs general saw the opportunity to break away Afghanistan as a separate country ruled by his Durrani clan. This region is always dependent on India economically whether a...

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The crucial role played by the Red army in defeating the Wehrmacht will be the role played by the Indian army in the Quad. There is no way around it.

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Are the pilot suits desi made???

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Mattoo visited Ajmer Dargah Sharif and proudly posted pictures on twitter. I commented on his Dhimmitude. Ended up blocking each other.

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https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/northern-command-kept-out-of-theaterisation-ambit-101625162857686.html The Indian Army’s Northern Command is the only single-service command that will stay outside the scope of the military’s theaterisation drive aimed at integrating the capabilities of the ...

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Even during Kangress sarkar, Obama/Hillary couldn't manage to get the much-celebrated Richard Holbrooke appointed as envoy for "Af-Pak-India" (as they had brilliantly planned). Whenever Holbrooke showed interest in visiting New Delhi the bureaucracy would mark themselves out of town. They...

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US will try to strike a deal with Taliban to hit China in East Turkestan via a Jihad.

They may be clearing the space on Afghanistan for this. Turkey will also have a role to play here. If Taliban allows Turkey to manage the Kabul airport security that means the deal is going apace.

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Is the Khalistani phenomenon an East Punjab movement??? Are these Jat Sikhs agitating for Khalistan from East Punjab who were not uprooted from their homes in 1947. It is difficult to imagine those Sikhs who migrated from West Punjab and seeing their loved ones killed and losing their lands falling ...

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This will irk the NCP like hell https://www.hindupost.in/business-economy/rbi-bars-mps-mlas-from-holding-md-post-in-urban-cooperative-banks/ RBI bars MPs, MLAs from holding MD post in urban cooperative banks BY: IANS JUNE 29, 2021 In a crackdown on political interference, the Reserve Bank of India h...

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@AdityaRajKaul
Since last night several drones apparently spotted between 1am and 4am in Jammu. First drone was spotted in Kaluchak cantonment. Second drone spotted in Ratnuchak cantonment. Third drone spotted near Kunjwani.

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All PLA forces currently in East and South Tibet are smaller than this force. All Chinese units have to move along the S204 highway, which can be interdicted quite easily in the area between Sikkim and Bhutan and is unlikely to logistically support more than a division. How does a PLA parachute for...

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^^^ With 2 separate corps being available in the neighborhood sufficient forces exist in order to deal with such an eventuality. Besides, a flanking move from Bhutan will allow India to nicely setup a welcoming committee through the mountain passes and roads the PLA will have to take in order to cu...

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