Bharat Rakshak

"As circumstantial evidence now suggests, it was perhaps a third party that orchestrated the attack, pushing a panicked Modi into reckless statements and actions. His speech at an election rally in Bihar, delivered in English, was a masterpiece of miscalculated bravado. He promised a charged-up crowd that severe punishment would be meted out to the perpetrators of the attack – clearly alluding to Pakistan. His rhetoric, amplified by the Godi media, stirred a wave of war hysteria across the country.

The media had already laid the trap – and he walked straight into it."

A_Gupta wrote: ↑01 May 2025 17:47 TFT:

"As circumstantial evidence now suggests, it was perhaps a third party that orchestrated the attack, pushing a panicked Modi into reckless statements and actions. His speech at an election rally in Bihar, delivered in English, was a masterpiece of miscalculated bravado. He promised a charged-up crowd that severe punishment would be meted out to the perpetrators of the attack – clearly alluding to Pakistan. His rhetoric, amplified by the Godi media, stirred a wave of war hysteria across the country.

The media had already laid the trap – and he walked straight into it."

The questions being asked across Pakistan were: Why would we carry out such an attack? What possible motive would we have? This is simply not Pakistan’s modus operandi.

Among the latest cyberattacks, Pakistan-based hacking groups such as "Cyber Group HOAX1337" and "National Cyber Crew" targeted the websites of Army Public School in Nagrota and Sunjuwan and attempted to deface them with messages mocking the victims of the recent Pahalgam terror attack.

drnayar wrote: ↑03 May 2025 08:09 https://www.yahoo.com/news/grassroots-m ... 50871.html

How Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world

PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana (PMSGMBY), the world’s largest domestic rooftop solar initiative, has achieved a historic milestone with 10 lakh homes now solar-powered as of 10th March 2025.

Launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 13th February 2024, this transformative scheme is rapidly reshaping India’s energy landscape.

With 47.3 lakh applications received, the initiative has already disbursed ₹4,770 crore in subsidies to 6.13 lakh beneficiaries, making solar energy more accessible than ever.

The scheme’s easy financing options, including collateral-free loans up to ₹2 lakh at a 6.75% subsidized interest rate through 12 Public Sector Banks, have further accelerated adoption.

So far, 3.10 lakh loan applications have been received, with 1.58 lakh sanctioned and 1.28 lakh disbursed, ensuring financial inclusion for all. With a seamless 15-day subsidy transfer process and zero electricity bills for many beneficiaries, the scheme is not just powering homes but also empowering people.

Every solar installation under PMSGMBY offsets carbon emissions equal to planting 100 trees, driving India towards a cleaner, greener, and self-reliant future.

drnayar wrote: ↑03 May 2025 08:09 https://www.yahoo.com/news/grassroots-m ... 50871.html

How Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world

gakakkad wrote: ↑03 May 2025 18:07

drnayar wrote: ↑03 May 2025 08:09 https://www.yahoo.com/news/grassroots-m ... 50871.html

How Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world

Importing Chinese panels and sticking onto the rooftop is now a renewable revolution.

A_Gupta wrote: ↑05 May 2025 04:20 "Pakistan on Sunday banned the import of Indian-origin goods transiting through Pakistan by land, sea and air and prohibited the transit of goods exported to India by third countries, a notification from the commerce ministry said."

From Dawn.

Manish_P wrote: ↑03 May 2025 20:05
Till a few years ago China had accounted for over 90% of India's solar cell imports. Now it is reported to be around 55 to 60 percent.

Hope we get it down to low single digits before 2030.

A_Gupta wrote: ↑06 May 2025 05:58 Question - did Munir/ISI/Army expect India to play the IWT card, or did it come as a surprise?
In general, what is the gap between what they thought would happen after Pahalgam and what is happening?

Jay wrote: ↑05 May 2025 21:53

Manish_P wrote: ↑03 May 2025 20:05
Till a few years ago China had accounted for over 90% of India's solar cell imports. Now it is reported to be around 55 to 60 percent.

Hope we get it down to low single digits before 2030.

Manish ji, did we replace the chinese imports with our own manufacturing of solar panels or did we stop scaling up of solar?

The idea behind Kargil was

1. We will occupy kargil
2. India will try to oust us, we will talk about nuclear flashpoint
3. International community will restrain India
4. We will keep kargil, threaten highway 1A

India’s suspension of the Indus Water Treaty has raised alarm in China, with strategist Hu Shisheng warning it endangers CPEC and BRI projects. He highlights increased regional instability, risks to Chinese investments, and potential shifts in South Asia’s water power dynamics.

New Delhi: With hostilities between India and Pakistan at an all-time high following the Pahalgam terror attack, and New Delhi taking punitive actions against Islamabad — including the suspension of the Indus Water Treaty — a senior Chinese strategist has described it as an unprecedented challenge to regional stability.

Hu Shisheng, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), has said that it has not only unsettled Islamabad but has also cast a shadow over China’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in South Asia. Shisheng has warned that India’s so-called “hydrological deterrence” is testing the resilience of critical infrastructure under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

Could undermine years of Chinese investment
According to him, when floodwaters recently swept across the Karakorum Highway, an important artery constructed with Chinese participation, Beijing inadvertently received “an unexpected strategic assessment report” on the vulnerabilities of its investments. “Compared to border conflicts, it is precisely these non-traditional security threats that constitute the true Achilles’ heel of the Belt and Road Initiative projects,” Hu observed. He further suggested that water-related instability could undermine years of Chinese investment and regional influence.

While acknowledging that India’s strategy could impact Beijing’s interests, Hu Shisheng also argued that New Delhi’s control over only 20 per cent of the Indus River’s water flow, combined with its limited water storage capacity, diminishes the practical effectiveness of its water-based tactics. He noted that Pakistan’s downstream hydropower stations remain capable of managing the fluctuations, while climate change further erodes the efficacy of water manipulation. Shisheng characterised New Delhi’s actions as “more like a political performance aimed at its domestic audience” rather than a decisive strategic manoeuvre.

‘Dangerous escalation of geopolitical adventurism’
However, Shisheng expressed concern that India’s move to break the 62-year tacit understanding over water rights, which had underpinned a fragile regional balance, represents a dangerous escalation of geopolitical adventurism. “New Delhi is attempting to deflect domestic tensions by creating a ‘controllable crisis’. yet it has seriously underestimated the risks of a chain reaction,” he warned. He pointed specifically to CPEC-linked projects, such as the Kohala Hydropower Project and the Diamer-Bhasha Dam.

Despite these tensions, Hu emphasised that escalation is not in line with the Modi government’s primary strategic priorities. He argued that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foremost agenda is “national revitalisation through industrialisation” — capitalising on the “strategic window of opportunity” created by US tariffs on China to attract foreign investment, expand Indian manufacturing, and position India as a rising industrial powerhouse. “If regional instability continues, it will undermine investor confidence and force India to pay an unnecessary price,” Hu cautioned.

Adding a broader geopolitical layer, Hu noted that Bangladesh’s current turmoil and the deterioration of India-Bangladesh relations to historic lows, coupled with rapidly warming ties between Bangladesh and Pakistan, have left India “significantly constrained on both its eastern and western flanks”. Against this backdrop, he highlighted India’s efforts to engage with the Afghan Taliban regime, attempting to leverage Afghanistan as a key “chess piece” in balancing regional pressures.

I would find it very insulting to my Motherland when people would proudly say the the Indus Water Treaty continued to be respected by India even during the wars with Pakistan. This is purely and simply, a lack of शत्रुबोध on our side.

The enemy, on the other hand, is very clear.
India is the eternal enemy for them. Always has been, and always will be.
Yes, they will mooch off us and our generosity, but at the end of the day, they won’t hesitate in destroying us, given even half a chance

I will not go into the technicalities of the Treaty, except for just saying that it gave way more to Pakistan, at the cost of the interests of our own people. So much so that even the then J&K CM said so in 2014.

So, coming on to what has been happening thus far, and what happens next ..

First and foremost, going far beyond the world of Surgical Strikes and Balakot Airstrikes, the impact of putting the IWT on hold is nothing short of a nuclear strike on Bhikharistan, IMO!

Let me elaborate..

Here is how it went previously:

Surgical Strikes : Paakis responded by blatant and vociferous denial that any such thing happened!

Balakot : Paakis responded by losing an F-16 to a MiG 21 and then being scared shitless by Indian threats into releasing Abhinandan ASAP!

In this particular instance of putting the IWT on hold, Pakistan has practically no answer except for huffing and puffing!

And this time, the action has hit home to practically each and every Bhikharistani that inhabits those lands of the Sindhu river that they stole from Bharat.

The Brown Panted Ones were anticipating another military strike (which, frankly, SHOULD still happen). They even mobilized their derelict pieces of military hardware towards the Indian borders amid much public fanfare!

But India?

Well India just yawned and didn’t mobilize at all!

Instead of moving its military, India just turned off the tap to the various rivers that had till recently, been flowing unimpeded into Pakistan! And then .. after a few days .. India opened the taps fully!

Basically, what India has done is something which the Brown Panted Ones had never thought of even in their wildest of dreams when giving the go-ahead for the Pahalgam Terror Attack. India introduced a paradigm shift in which, instead of uniting behind their army, Paaki population is cursing them! Moreover, this time they are also DIRECTLY feeling the impact of their wholehearted endorsement of the Pakistani terror infrastructure : ‘India can starve us’: farmers in Pakistan decry suspension of crucial water treaty

^^ So now they cry that they will starve.

Why?

Because in their (beautiful) minds, they believe that India overreacted to Packie terrorists killing 26 innocent Indian after confirming their religion!

I kid you not.

If you STILL feel sorry for them, then I have a small exercise to help you get over it:

Step 1 : Take a deep breath.
Step 2 : Hold it for 26mins 11secs!

So what happens now, you ask?

Well for one, Sindh gets worried.

Why?

Because with India withholding water, Paaki Punjab will ensure that Sindh dries out first! There already were some reports of protests in Sindh about this some days back!

Unfortunately, for the Brown Panted Ones, who are the true rulers of Pak, (regardless of Shehbaz Sharif prancing around as if he is the actual PM!), the only way out is to either accept defeat which their egos will never permit.

One other way out for them, possibly, is an internal coup within the Pakistan Army, something similar to the one that happened after their humiliation in 1965 wherein the self-styled Field Marshal Ayub Khan was forced out by Yahya Khan.

I am sure that atleast one section amongst the Brown Panted Ones might consider this to be possible way out, i.e., offering to remove Asim Munir by (rightly) assigning all blame for the current fiasco to him.

But even if .. and that is still a BIG IF .. that happens, will some such thing be acceptable to India?

Will the IWT be restored by India?

Will the three western rivers flow unimpeded as before?

Well, the short answer to all these questions is a BIG NO!

The Brown Panted Ones have overplayed their hand this time, and given a golden opportunity to India to do the unthinkable. A line has been crossed, that will never be reverted to now. The rules of the game have been changed for good.

The Indus Water Treaty, as it existed for past 65 yrs, is well and truly dead.

If the Paakis have any sense, they will sit down to renegotiate. Come to think of it, they don’t have a choice in this matter. Either they renegotiate a new, more balanced treaty, or they lose it all!

It is a Lose-Lose situation for them.

The only choice they have is to decide HOW MUCH are they willing to lose.

And knowing them, they will lose much more by being obstinate instead of pragmatic. It is their true nature, just like it is the nature of a scorpion to sting.

A press release from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said: “On May 6, 2025, terrorists belonging to Indian proxy, so-called ‘Baloch Liberation Army’, targeted security forces’ vehicle with an improvised explosive device in general area Mach.”

It said the following seven soldiers were subsequently martyred in the attack: Subedar Umar Farooq, 42, resident of Karachi; Naik Asif Khan, 28, resident of Karak district; Naik Mashkoor Ali, 28, resident of Orakzai district; Sepoy Tariq Nawaz, 26, resident of Lakki Marwat district; Sepoy Wajid Ahmed Faiz, 28, resident of Bagh district; Sepoy Muhammad Asim, 22, resident of Karak district and Sepoy Muhammad Kashif Khan, 28, resident of Kohat district.

Two Pakistan Coast Guards personnel were injured on Monday when a remote-controlled bomb targeted their patrol vehicle in the Jiwani area, while a Levies official escaped unharmed when his private vehicle was destroyed by a separate roadside bomb in Pishin district.

Washington, DC: Today, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the first review of Pakistan’s economic reform program supported by the EFF Arrangement. This decision allows for an immediate disbursement of around $1 billion (SDR 760 million), bringing total disbursements under the arrangement to about $2.1 billion (SDR 1.52 billion). In addition, the IMF Executive Board approved the authorities’ request for an arrangement under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF), with access of about US$1.4 billion (SDR 1 billion).

Pakistan’s 37-month EFF was approved on September 25, 2024, and aims to build resilience and enable sustainable growth. Key priorities include (i) entrenching macroeconomic sustainability through consistent implementation of sound macro policies, including rebuilding international reserve buffers and broadening of the tax base; (ii) advancing reforms to strengthen competition and raise productivity and competitiveness; (iii) reforming SOEs and improving public service provision and energy sector viability; and (iv) building climate resilience.

Pakistan’s policy efforts under the EFF have already delivered significant progress in stabilizing the economy and rebuilding confidence, amidst a challenging global environment. Fiscal performance has been strong, with a primary surplus of 2.0 percent of GDP achieved in the first half of FY25, keeping Pakistan on track to meet the end-FY25 target of 2.1 percent of GDP. Inflation fell to a historic low of 0.3 percent in April, and progress on disinflation and steadier domestic and external conditions, have allowed the State Bank of Pakistan to cut the policy rate by a total of 1100 bps since June 2025. Gross reserves stood at $10.3 billion at end-April, up from $9.4 billion in August 2024, and are projected to reach $13.9 billion by end-June 2025 and continue to be rebuilt over the medium term.

The RSF will support the authorities’ efforts to reduce vulnerabilities to natural disasters and to build economic and climate resilience. The authorities’ program: (i) prioritizes resilience to natural disasters and strengthen public investment processes at all levels of government; (ii) makes the use of scarce water resources more efficient, including through better pricing; (iii) strengthens coordination of natural disaster response and financing between federal and provincial governments; (iv) improves the information architecture, for and disclosure of, climate-related risks by banks and corporates; and (v) supports Pakistan’s efforts to meet its mitigation commitments and reduce related macro-critical risks.

Following the Executive Board discussion, Nigel Clarke, Deputy Managing Director and Chair, made the following statement:

“Pakistan has made important progress in restoring macroeconomic stability despite a challenging environment. Since the approval of the Extended Fund Facility, the economy continues to recover, with inflation sharply lower and external buffers notably stronger. Risks to the outlook remain elevated, however, particularly from global economic policy uncertainty, rising geopolitical tensions, and persistent domestic vulnerabilities. Against this backdrop, the authorities need to maintain sound macroeconomic policies and accelerate reforms to safeguard the macroeconomic gains and underpin stronger and sustainable, private sector-led medium-term growth.

“The steadfast implementation of the FY2025 budget and the passage of key fiscal reforms, notably the Agricultural Income Tax, underpin the process of rebuilding policy making credibility. Continuing to mobilize greater revenue from undertaxed sectors and the noncompliant will make the tax system more equitable and efficient. This, combined with federal and provincial spending discipline, will strengthen sustainability, build resilience, and reduce the public sector’s crowding out of private credit.

“Timely implementation of power tariff adjustments has helped reduce the stock and flow of circular debt. Meanwhile, cost-side reforms are showing early signs of success but need to be accelerated to safeguard the energy sector’s viability and improve Pakistan’s competitiveness.

“The State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) tight monetary policy stance has been pivotal in reducing inflation to historic lows. Monetary policy should remain appropriately tight and data-dependent to ensure inflation is anchored within the SBP’s target range. A more flexible exchange rate will facilitate the adjustment to external and domestic shocks, aiding the rebuilding of reserves. Prompt action to address undercapitalized financial institutions and vigilance over the financial sector are necessary for financial stability. Strengthening of AML/CFT frameworks is also needed.

“Accelerating structural reforms will unlock Pakistan’s competitiveness, creating conditions to attract high-impact private investment. Reform priorities include reducing trade and investment barriers, advancing SOE reforms, and decisively strengthening governance and anti-corruption institutions.

“Reducing Pakistan’s vulnerability to extreme weather events will enhance macroeconomic stability and fiscal sustainability. The reforms under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility aim to build resilience to natural disasters by strengthening public investment processes, supporting efficient use of scarce water resources, strengthening coordination of natural disaster response and financing, improving the information on climate-related risks, and supporting Pakistan in meeting its international commitments.”

gakakkad wrote: ↑13 May 2025 22:42 We really need to get things going in benis dhaga lol.