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Thursday 12 July 2018
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India doesn’t need Weapons, it can kill us with Water - Pak Media
The construction of the Kishanganga and Ratledams by India did not start yesterday. Kishanganga Hydroelectric project started in 2007. In 2011, Pakistan protested at Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitration (CoA) due to which the construction of the dam was halted temporarily before India got the permission to divert water from River Neelam.
Similarly, in 2013, India started its Ratle hydroelectric project to divert the stream of River Chenab to four different power stations with the help of 400m long underground tunnels. Pakistan did protest against these dams,but sadly enough it was never adequately prepared and hence lost the cases. In 2018, Pakistan rushed to World Bank when Kishanganga was inaugurated.
Today when our politicians should be talking about issues like dams, power plants, future water and food security, all parties are instead, without exception, busy with cheap tricks
There is no doubt that both these dams and many other smaller ones are a straight violation of Indus Water Treaty (IWT). If one reads the whole document of IWT in detail, it is evident that India has no right to restrict or interfere with the flow of the three western rivers, the Indus, Jhelum and Chenab.
In 2013, when Pakistan lost its case and references were made to the annexures of IWT for allowance of these dams, those provisions when looked at clearly state that India is allowed to use water for agricultural use with specified quantity per crop with dates of months mentioned precisely for Chenab and area of irrigation for Indus. As far as hydroelectric power plants were considered, India was allowed only to construct such a plant on any western river to a total 250 cusecs, and that too with the clear condition that the water will be returned to the respective river and the flow of the river will not be violated.
This, however, is not the issue. The problem is the slow and weak reaction of concerned officials from within Pakistan. India being a rival nation was expected to do exactly what it did. We cannot blame it for its damaging attitude towards Pakistan. Why would India not try to destroy Pakistan with drought and water scarcity when it can? Won’t this be the easiest way of tackling an enemy without having to fight a direct war? India and its people are working together for their long-term development. If they have strong lobbying at the international level, if they are always prepared when they reach such meetings, if they are diplomatically much stronger than Pakistan, then we should not try and stop them from being this strong a patriot to their country? It is their national pride that wins. It is high time Pakistani people realised their role in self-survival and national spirit.
We have failed as a nation on multiple fronts. Today, when our politicians should be talking about the issues like dams, power plants, future water and food security, all parties without exception are instead busy in cheap tricks, even if they have to sacrifice water survival projects like the Kalabagh Dam.
In India, during summer semesters, professors from top global universities like Harvard, Yale, and Stanford etc. are recruited so that an average Indian also gets the chance to get international standard education and exposure. Whereas the HEC in Pakistan gives individual scholarships to Pakistani citizens for self-growth and learning, many of whom eventually stay abroad, seeking their personal growth over national benefit.
We need to open our eyes to the issue of water scarcity. If we don’t, India is right on target, and her dams have the potential to act as weapons of mass destruction
In India, documents like IWT and WTO are taught as a part of syllabus so that a common Indian is aware of their national interests. We, on the other hand, are sleeping; and I can bet not many educated Pakistanis would have had a chance of reading both these documents even once.
There may be many such comparative examples between the two countries. The purpose for writing this article is not to praise Indian policies but to create awareness of the fact that we are facing an enemy, which is not only clever but well-connected and well-researched.
If we are not going to open our eyes to the issue of water scarcity, India is right on target, and her dams have the potential to act as weapons of mass destruction against our beloved country.
Indian Army unearths massive arms dump in Poonch district of Jammu & Kashmir
The recovery was made yesterday night.
Besides the Improvised Explosive devices (IED), the seizure included some Pakistani currency, two AK assault rifles, three pistols, three rounds of rocket propelled grenades (RPG) and four Chinese hand grenades, the officer said.
The recovery was made from a forest area near the Line of Control (LoC) in Mendhar sector during a search operation which was launched on specific information.
The arms were smuggled from across the border and dumped in the forest area for subsequent use by terrorists, the officer said and added that the recovery was a major success for security forces.
Two AK 56 rifles with 26 magazines and 1153 rounds, three pistols with two magazines and 63 rounds, one Pika magazine with 46 rounds, 11 IEDs fitted in tiffin boxes and 20 detonators were part of the arms dump.
Pakistani currency valuing Rs 16,500, a compass, two map sheets, a bayonet, seven communication sets, a code sign and some other items were recovered during the operation, he said.
These are the 6 Fighter Jets in the race for an IAF contract. Again
The first ended in tragedy, and a deadline of sorts for a second, or third, attempt ends Friday, with six foreign vendors’ responses to a 73-page Request for Information (RFI).
In the re-run of the scrapped MMRCA (Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft) race, the same six companies with the same six aircraft would be intending to compete for the same order from the same customer. Only, this time the customer, Indian Air Force, has pared down the numbers from 126 to 110.
“…Doing the same thing over again and expecting different results used to be a definition of lunacy,” former navy chief and aviator, Admiral Arun Prakash (retired) tweeted recently in response to a discussion on the RFI. “It would be a great shame if logic, economics and jointness do not persuade IAF and IN (Indian Air Force and Indian Navy) to select the same aircraft. MoD (Ministry of Defence) should consider issuing a fiat.”
Admiral Prakash was highlighting the fact that the navy was also looking to procure 57 deck-based fighter jets. Though the requirement of carrier-borne jets is demanding of a maritime capability, he has argued in favour of looking at synergies among the platforms of the different services.
Competing jets ::
Boeing’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Block III, Lockheed Martin’s F-16 Fighting Falcon Block 70, Dassault Aviation’s Rafale F3R, Eurofighter Typhoon, Saab’s Gripen E and Russian United Aircraft Corporation’s MiG-35 will be vying for a IAF contract conservatively estimated at $18 billion over 12 years. Four of these six companies are also in contention for the navy order.
In the time that the last tender was scrapped (2015) and now, the aircraft have been made more modern in a military aviation equivalent of software upgrades on smartphones. In that time, the Modi administration contracted 36 Rafales from France in a befuddling government-to-government order.
Befuddling because the IAF had projected a requirement for 126 (six squadrons) of the aircraft. Its projection was based on the government’s operational directive to be prepared for a two-front war. The directive has remained unchanged since 2009.
Between 2015 and now, the IAF was also asked to consider buying 114 single-engine fighters through a competitive process. That was scrapped, again, in April and the current RFI was issued. This one, like the MMRCA contest initiated in 2007, does not specify the number of engines that the winning aircraft should have.
Consequently, among the six competitors are two single-engine fighters (the F-16 and the Gripen) and four twin-engined ones.
There is one big difference, though, with the scrapped 2007 tender: the foreign vendors are now required to tie-up with an Indian ‘strategic partner’ that may be a private sector entity. The last MMRCA race had specified the defence public sector Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd as the ‘lead integrator’.
After extensive flight evaluation trials, the IAF down-selected the Euro fighter Typhoon and the Rafale. The Rafale was announced as the winner because it was relatively cheaper. But the two aircraft were the most expensive to begin with.
Multiple types of BrahMos Missile Under Development, LnT opens new production line
The BrahMos missile system is continuously being reinvented to be used across multiple platforms, different trajectory and different targets as guided by India's 'Missile Man' and former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, Mishra said during the inauguration of second manufacturing line of L&T Defence at Ranoli near Vadodara. The unit manufactures canisters and airframes for BrahMos missile, being launched from land and sea.
"Recently, we had demonstrated the vertical dive capability for BrahMos missile. This can be used against enemies hidden in mountains particularly in bunkers and also against aircraft carriers. While China has nuclear DF 21 missiles to be used against aircraft carriers, ours will be conventional missiles. BrahMos missile is offering tremendous capabilities," said Mishra.
Another major area where capabilities are being increased is the accuracy of missiles. It has improved from 30 metre to 10 metre and now the target is one metre, he said. He also said a new lighter version of air-launched BrahMos is at a drawing board stage. The current air-launched missile is launched from specialized Su 30 MKI fighter aircrafts. The newer one is designed for lighter platforms like Mig 29 or even India's indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) - Tejas. Efforts are being made to increase the range of missile from 290 kilometre to 415 km and even beyond, he said.
BrahMos is one of its kind of cruise missile anywhere in the world, which can fly at a speed three times that of sound (Mach 3), can be launched from land, air and sea. The naval version can be launched from both ships and submarine. It can be used against targets on land and in the sea. A combination of the trajectory of the missile and speed gives it stealth-like capability making it difficult being detected by a RADAR and therefore being intercepted by anti-missile systems.
Mishra said that orders are pouring in from Indian armed forces and Indian companies like L&T should grab the opportunity to cater to increasing orders. Inquiries are also coming from foreign buyers but it is up to the central government to decide whom we should sell this unique weapon. As of now Indian armed forces are the only ones to use this missile.
Israeli military-grade radio used in Thai rescue is part of Indian special forces gear
The cave network is out of range of commerical cellular networks and has a wet, humid environment that is not exactly a blessing for sensitive electronics. The rescue team has been trying to connect the cave mouth and the chamber with a fibre-optic link. But, divers have not been able to draw the cable through the tight passages, as they themselves are weighed down with oxygen tanks.
Enter, the MaxMesh Tactical radios provided by Maxtech Networks, Israel. Interestingly, the company has been a constant presence at India’s DefExpos for more than a decade. Currently, Maxtech is represented in India by Bengaluru-based Mistral Solutions. The MaxMesh system looks quite a bit like the traditional VHF hand-helds used by your neighbourhood traffic policeman. But, the similarity ends there. While traditional radios form a star pattern, where lines of communication radiate from a base station, MaxMesh forms a mesh pattern, where each radio is connected to multiple neighbours.
Anees Ahmed, chairman and MD, Mistral Solutions, told THE WEEK that the radios can be used for voice, data, texting and video transfer. “Typical army or police radios require base stations, large antennas [and repeaters],” he said. “The Mistral-Maxtech radios don’t need anything. They can be used where you don’t have a network. They are ideally suited for jungles, border areas, tunnels and underground spaces.”
Friday 6 July 2018
The new coin of Rs 125 and Rs 5 continues
India's Vice President Venkaiah Naidu today issued a new coin of Rs. 125 and Rs. 5 on June 29. This coin has been released in honor of the 125th birth anniversary of PC Mahalanobis.
Mahalanobis Jayanti is celebrated as Statistics Day. This coin will be launched soon. This will be the first time that a coin of 125 rupees in India will be available in the market.
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Thursday 5 July 2018
Something things you all don't know about our Army Chief General Bipin Rawat.
Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat on Tuesday told school students from Chhattisgarh that he had not seen a single movie in the past 30 years.
Asked by Shriom Kashyap, a class 8 student from the Delhi Public School, Raipur, about his views on patriotic Hindi films, General Bipin Rawat said: "I, in the past 30 years, never got time to watch a movie and to sit at a place for three hours."
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