Wednesday, December 2, 2015

INDO-PAK WAR 1971 :: FROM BATTLE FIELD 1730 Hrs , 03 Dec 1971 TO JANTAR MANTAR

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            FROM BATTLE FIELD  03 Dec 1971  
                                     TO
                      JANTAR MANTAR





                
                                                       VETERAN'S DAY
                                               ARRIVAL 
                                                      OF 
                 VETERAN' S "CROSS" AT JANTAR MANTAR

                                             14 AUG 2015




1971 War: How India Defeated Pakistan







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1971 Indo Pak War - RARE VIDEO



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Published on Dec 11, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRd_ke...
(Indian Navy Operations in the Western theatre during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971)

At then end of conflict.... We [Eastern Naval Command] had no intelligence and hence, were both deaf and blind with the Indian Navy and Indian Air Force pounding us day and night....
—Admiral Mohammad Sharif telling Admiral Zumwalt in 1971,


Naval operations in the Eastern theatre by Indian Navy .. In the end months of 1971, the Indian Navy's Eastern Naval Command had effectively applied a naval blockade which also completely isolated East-Pakistan's Bay of Bengal, trapping the Eastern Pakistan Navy and eight foreign merchant ships in their ports.

On 4 December 1971, the INS Vikrant, the aircraft carrier, was also deployed in which its Hawker Sea Hawk attack aircraft contributed in Air Operations in East Pakistan.

The Pakistan Navy responded by deploying her ageing long-range submarine, PNS Ghazi, to counter the threat as the Naval Command had overruled the objections by her officers.

The PNS Ghazi,was assigned to locate the INS Vikrant, but when it was not able to locate, decided to mine the port of Vishakapatnam .

At around midnight of 3--4 December, the PNS Ghazi began its operation of laying mines. The Indian Navy dispatched INS Rajput to counter the threat.The INS Rajput's SONAR reported the disturbance underwater and two depth charges were released.

The deadly game ended when INS Rajput sunk PNS Ghazi with all 92 hands on board around midnight on 3 December 1971 off the Vishakapatnam coast



INDO PAK WAR 1971: How Russia (Soviet Union) helped india ?


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Published on May 21, 2015
INDO PAK WAR 1971: How Russia (Soviet Union) helped india ?
U.S & CHINA secret pact
US sympathized with Pakistan, because of various reasons. Among them two reasons were that: firstly, Pakistan belonged to American led military Pact, CENTO and SEATO; secondly, US believed any victory of India will be considered as the expansion of Soviet influence ,as it India was believed to be a pro Soviet nation, even though they were non aligned.

US needed help from China.This brought China in the picture.
US approached China very secretly on this issue, who was more than welcoming as it believed that their relations with US could improve from this onward.



Role of Soviet Union:

Countering English Navy:
“The Soviet Intelligence has reported that the English operative connection has come nearer to territorial India, water led by an aircraft carrier “Eagle” [On December 10]. For helping friendly India, Soviet government has directed a group of ships under the command of contr-admiral V. Kruglyakov.”

Vladimir Kruglyakov, the former (1970-1975) Commander of the 10th Operative Battle Group (Pacific Fleet) remembers:

“I was ordered by the Chief Commander to track the British Navy’s advancement, I positioned our battleships in the Bay of Bengal and watched for the British carrier “Eagle”.

But Soviet Union didn’t have enough force to resist if they encountered the British Carrier. Therefore, to support the existing Soviet fleet in the Bay of Bengal, Soviet cruisers, destroyers and nuclear submarines, equipped with anti ship missiles, were sent from Vladivostok.

In reaction English Navy retreated and went South to Madagascar.

Countering US Navy:
News of American carrier Enterprise and USS Tripoli’s advancement towards Indian water was recieved.

V. Kruglyakov “ I had obtained the order from the commander-in-chief not to allow the advancement of the American fleet to the military bases of India”

We encircled them and aimed the missiles at the ‘Enterprise’. We had blocked their way and didn’t allow them to head anywhere, neither to Karachi, nor to Chittagong or Dhaka”.

The Soviet ships had small range rockets (only upto 300 KM). Therefore, to hold the opponent under the range, commanders ran risks of going as near to the enemy as possible.

Americans returned and couldn’t do anything.

Countering China

Success of U.S plan largely depended on China opening a new front against India.

Despite Kissinger’s goading and desperate Pakistani calls for help, the Chinese did nothing. US diplomatic documents reveal that Indira Gandhi knew the Soviets had factored in the possibility of Chinese intervention. According to a cable referring to an Indian cabinet meeting held on December 10, “If the Chinese were to become directly involved in the conflict, Indira Gandhi said, the Chinese know that the Soviet Union would act in the Sinkiang region. Soviet air support may be made available to India at that time.”



The war ended with the surrender of Pakistani army as they missed American help due to quick Russians who blocked both America and China from preventing India to advance.

Between 90,000 and 93,000 members of the Pakistan Armed Forces including paramilitary personnel were taken as Prisoners of War by the Indian Army.

Russia’s power play prevented a joint British-American attack on India.

Russia to this day is one of the major defense equipment supplier to India. Russia & India remains strategic partners.















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OROP KRANTI :: GOVERNMENT APPROACHES FOR THE LIGHT AT THE END OF TUNNEL !!??





CK Sharma seekayess@gmail.com via googlegroups.com 

7:04 PM (1 hour ago)
to Members_IESM, IndVets, 22NDA, 84th/24th, PSU-SM


A team of three Members of IESM Governing Body/ UFESM (JM), consisting of Hon Lt Kameshwar Pande, Maj Gen Satbir Singh and the undersigned, Wg Cdr CK Sharma were called by the Raksha Mantri, Sh Manohar Parikar late evening on 1st December 2015 for a meeting.


The only matter on the table, of course, was the correct and proper application of One Rank One Pension at the very earliest.


The RM was very clear and upfront about what his views were for OROP. He wanted us to give him a memorandum of what points we had for him, and he would thereafter give us appropriate response.


However, we told the RM that there was absolutely nothing that we wished to add to a document that he, as the RM, had prepared in February 2015 and sent on to the Finance Minister and the Prime Minister. We assured him that not only did we have complete and total faith in his thinking, but also, we had every intention to make sure that this vexed problem of OROP would be correctly and amicably sorted and the award given to the Veer Naris and Ex Servicemen of India by none other than Mr Narendra Modi as the PM.


Towards this, after some mutual discussion, it was decided that the Government would appoint Gen VK Singh, the present Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, as the Mediator. Gen VK Singh will meet all those protesting at Jantar Mantar to reach an amicable position from which, hopefully a solution would be reached enabling the on-going protest at Jantar Mantar to be called off.


Contact with Gen VK Singh has already been established to ensure that prompt action is now initiated on the matter and the agony of Ex Servicemen brought to a speedy end with an honourable settlement.













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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

OROP KRANTI :: SAINIK AAKROSH RALLY ON 13 DEC 15 AT JANTAR MANTAR FROM 10AM TO 3PM





UNITED FRONT OF EX SERVICEMEN (ESM)
01 Dec 15
ONE RANK ONE PENSION (OROP)
GOVT NOTIFICATION OF 07TH NOV 15
WILL KILL ITS APPROVED DEFINITION
SAINIK AAKROSH RALLY ON 13 DEC 15 AT JANTAR MANTAR
FROM 10AM TO 3PM


Dear Friends,
1.         You are aware that the Govt Notification issued on 07th Nov 15 regarding Implementation of OROP has serious shortcomings and if implemented, it will totally kill approved OROP Definition. The bureaucrats and the Govt will systematically downgrade the provisions of OROP and finally totally deny us the same.
2.         The 7th CPC recommendations have come as further blow to already downgraded, degraded, ill-treated, mistreated Military in status, pay and allowances. Our top scales have been depressed, thereby further downgrading the Military. It is intriguing, surprising and totally unfair and unjustified that no member from Defence Forces was included in the 7th CPC in spite of the issue having been taken up by our service Chiefs. Ignoring their strong recommendations was a grave wrong and unjustified decision of the Govt.
3.         You are all aware that the present Govt also continued the legacy of previous Govts of downgrading the Military on the behest of bureaucracy. PM himself assured us at Rewari and many other locations across the country including at Siachen and at Sea on board the INS Vikramaditya that Actual OROP will be implemented. Unfortunately, the Notification of 07th Nov 2015 totally belies that assurance. It is a betrayal of faith of Soldiers. Despite our repeated requests for a delegation meeting, PM has not granted us the meeting.
4.         We are all shocked and anguished to read that the RM has now directed Directorate of the Ex-Servicemen Welfare (DESM) to launch a Media Campaign against the Soldiers on Protest Movement demanding correct implementation of OROP as per the Govt approved definition.
5.         Friends, we are in our 170th Day of Protest at Jantar Mantar and at many other locations in the Country. It is Now or Never. We have decided to intensify our Protest Movement across the Country by holding Rallies and informing the people of our Great Bharat about the injustices being inflicted on the soldiers by successive Govts.
6.         Friends, the Govt has vast resources to supress the Protest Movement. We request the Defence Fraternity and the people of India to join the struggle against the unjustified ill-treatment of Military. This will seriously affect the National security. Some of you may not be aware that from 2006 to 2009, 40% of authorised vacancies at IMA and OTA were not subscribed (Lok Sabha Reply by RM).
7.         Soldiers retire early and also die early vis-a-vis the other Central Govt employees as revealed by a Study carried out by the Govt. The Govt has not addressed these serious factors of Defence Personnel This is the Situation and Time that we need to stand up and demand restoration of status of Military as existed on 26 Jan 1950 in all respects.
8.         Friends, in order to take important decisions together, “SAINIK AAKROSH RALLY” is being held at Jantar Mantar on 13 Dec 2015 from 10AM to 3PM.
9.         The Complete Defence Fraternity and our Civilian Supporters are requested to join in large numbers to make this Rally a Grand Success. Our AIM is to get actual OROP implemented by the government.

10.       We specially appeal to our Retired Chiefs, Army Cdrs, Corps Cdrs and PSOs at the three Service HQs to attend the AAKROSH RALLY at Jantar Mantar on 13th Dec 2015.  Your soldiers are waiting for your expression of solidity of their cause.  The Civil Military Relations and statues of Military viz the Civilian Counterparts have to be brought back to where these existed as on 26 Jan 1950. 
11.       Retired Chiefs are requested to jointly write to PM for the correct Implementation of sanctioned OROP as per the approved definition without any dilution.  The Notification of 7th Nov 2015 needs to be amended after resolving all the seven anomalies which have already been pointed out to the Govt.
12.  Pl give missed call at 07304400500 to support OROP, your every call will give more impetus to our struggle of OROP.

13.       Please donate generously and send your donation in cash/cheque/draft in the IESM account Payable to “Indian Ex Servicemen Movement, HDFC Bank A/C No: 06162000001330, and send it to our office address:
543, Sector 23
Gurgaon – 122017
(Haryana), INDIA
The cash/cheque/draft can also be sent to Treasurer IESM at
N-15, 1st Flr
Greater Kailash 1
NEW DELHI -110048
You may also deposit in the account directly and forward the receipt to above addresses. Bank Transfers are also welcome. Our Bank Details are:-
Name of Account:                         Indian Ex Servicemen Movement
Account No:                                  06162000001330
Name of Bank:                              HDFC Bank
Nine Digit MICR Code of Bank: 110240109
IFSC Code No (for e-transfer):     HDFC 0000616
Postal Address of Bank:               Palam Vihar Branch, SCO 87, Sector 22, Gurgaon–122001
          Hands, Heads and Shoulders Together.
With regards,
Yours Sincerely,
Maj Gen Satbir Singh, SM (Retd)
Advisor United Front of Ex Servicemen & Chairman IESM
Mobile: 9312404269, +0124 4110570Email: satbirsm@gmail.com
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GEO-POLITICS - AFGHAN PAK :: Afghanistan, Pakistan Leader to Hold Icebreaking Talks in Paris

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 http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/forel-afghan.htm



          Afghanistan, Pakistan Leaders 

         to Hold Icebreaking Talks in Paris

                                by
                          Ayaz Gul 



November 29, 2015




Leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan are expected to hold an "icebreaking" meeting on the margins of the U.N.climate change summit that starts Monday in Paris.
Pakistani officials and a group of senior Pashtun nationalist leaders, who returned Sunday from Afghanistan, told VOA that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has agreed to meet with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Paris, breaking a deadlock in relations.
The two sides are expected to discuss ways to ease bilateral tensions and jointly work for the resumption of stalled peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban officials, they added.
"The meting is likely in Paris on the margins of [the] climate change conference," Pakistani foreign ministry spokesman Qazi Khalilullah told VOA.
Pakistan negotiated and hosted a single groundbreaking meeting between Taliban and Afghan delegates in July in an effort to help bring an end to the 14-old conflict in Afghanistan.
But the nascent peace process was disrupted when it was revealed days later that reclusive, longtime Taliban leader Mullah Omar had died two years ago.
Since then, the insurgent group has increased attacks across Afghanistan, and Afghan leaders, including Ghani, increasingly blame Pakistan for being behind the violence, charges Islamabad rejects.
While the Pakistani government was working through official diplomatic channels to arrange the Ghani-Sharif meeting, the breakthrough was apparently made possible by the Pashtun delegation that was invited to Kabul by President Ghani to discuss ways to ease tensions and move the Afghan reconciliation process forward.
A member of the delegation, Afrasiyab Khattak, told VOA Sunday that Ghani accepted their request to meet with Sharif.
"They had their reservations after the collapse of the last process [of talks between Taliban and Afghan officials], but we just requested them to open the gate for talking," Khattak said.
The Pashtun ethnic group has sizable populations in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Afghanistan alleges that Taliban commanders and fighters use Pakistani soil for plotting and conducting insurgent activities on its side of the border.
Islamabad insists it has long abandoned that policy and is using its influence, though limited, to persuade the insurgents to end fighting and open reconciliation talks with the Afghan government, saying instability in the neighboring country also threatens Pakistan.
President Ghani has also been under rising criticism at home for failing to contain the Taliban insurgency, which has greatly expanded its areas of activity during this fighting season.


Further Reading


Foreign Relations - Afghanistan

Pakistan's relations with Afghanistan, its Muslim neighbor to the northwest, have never been easy. Pakistan's boundary with Afghanistan is about 2,250 kilometers long. In the north, it runs along the ridges of the Hindu Kush (meaning Hindu Killer) mountains and the Pamirs, where a narrow strip of Afghan territory called the Wakhan Corridor extends between Pakistan and Tajikistan. The Hindu Kush was traditionally regarded as the last northwestern outpost where Hindus could venture in safety.
In 1893, Sir Mortimer Durand negotiated an agreement with Amir Abdur Rahman Khan of Afghanistan to fix an only partially surveyed line (the Durand Line) running from Chitral to Balochistan to designate the areas of influence for the Afghans and the British. Each party pledged not to interfere in each other's lands. This agreement brought under British domination territory and peoples that had not yet been conquered and would become the source of much difficulty between Pakistan and Afghanistan in the future.
When Pakistan was admitted to the UN, only Afghanistan cast a negative vote, the result of Afghanistan's refusal to accept the Durand Line as its border with Pakistan. The Durand Line was not in doubt when Pakistan became independent in 1947, although its legitimacy was in later years disputed periodically by the Afghan government as well as by Pakhtun tribes straddling the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
On the one hand, Afghanistan claimed that the Durand Line had been imposed by a stronger power upon a weaker one. On the other hand, Pakistan, as the legatee of the British in the region, insisted on the legality and permanence of the boundary. This border divides the Pakhtu or Pashto-speaking people of the region. Afghanistan promoted secessionist movements among the Pakhtuns in Pakistan, calling for the creation of an independent Pashtunistan or Pakhtunistan or, alternatively, for Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province to join Afghanistan.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, however, had a profound effect on Pakistan's geopolitical situation. Pakistan became a frontline state in the Cold War. Altogether more than 3 million Afghan refugees fled to Pakistan, and the country became a base for mujahidin fighting against the Soviet forces and the Afghan communists. Pakistan also became a conduit for military assistance by the United States and others to the mujahidin.
The refugee burden, even if offset in part by foreign assistance, created dangerous pressures within Pakistani society. Afghan and Soviet forces conducted raids against mujahidin bases inside Pakistan, and a campaign of terror bombings and sabotage in Pakistan's cities, guided by Afghan intelligence agents, caused hundreds of casualties. In 1987 some 90 percent of the 777 terrorist incidents recorded worldwide took place in Pakistan. The actual danger to Pakistan, however, was probably never very great.
After the Soviet Union completed its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in February 1989, warfare continued between the mujahidin and the Afghan communist government in Kabul. The demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, however, resulted in a reassessment of Pakistan's foreign policy, particularly in light of the sweeping restructuring of central and southwest Asia. The Afghan resistance had been unable to unseat the Kabul regime. The heavy burden of the Afghan refugees continued, and Pakistan wanted to be in a position to establish linkages with the newly emerging Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Pakistan decided in early 1992 to press for a politicalsettlement. The communist government in Kabul was ousted in May 1992 and replaced by a fragile coalition of various mujahidin factions. But the coalition did not include the most radical of the Islamist mujahidin leaders, Gulbaddin Hikmatyar.
In March 1993, the government of Nawaz Sharif brokered an agreement between President Burhanuddin Rabbani of Afghanistan and Hikmatyar, Rabbani's longtime enemy, to share power in Afghanistan for eighteen months and then hold elections. Under the agreement, Rabbani would remain president, Hikmatyar would become prime minister, and they would choose government ministers together. A cease-fire was also to be implemented. It remains, however, for the agreement to be ratified by the leaders of all Muslim groups involved in the war. In 1994 fighting between mujahidin groups escalated in Kabul, and a new flood of refugees moved toward the Pakistani border.

Continued turmoil in Afghanistan prevented the refugees from returning to their country. In 1999, more than 1.2 million registered Afghan refugees remained in Pakistan. Pakistan was one of three countries to recognize the Taliban regime of Afghanistan. International pressure after September 11, 2001, prompted Pakistan to reassess its relations with the Taliban regime and support the U.S. and international coalition in Operation Enduring Freedom to remove the Taliban from power. Pakistan has publicly expressed its support to Afghanistan's President Karzai and has pledged $100 million toward Afghanistan's reconstruction. Both nations are also working to strengthen cooperation and coordination along their shared rugged border.







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OROP KRANTI :: FOR ALL VETERANS - "PATIENCE" IS THE NAME OF THE GAME

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 OROP KRANTI :: FOR ALL VETERANS - "PATIENCE" IS THE NAME OF THE GAME


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I HUMBLY DESIRE TO BRING TO NOTICE OF ALL CONCERNED THAT FIRSTLY THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF OROP IN ITS  PRESENT FORM BEING DETRIMENTAL TO OUR LONG TERM FINANCIAL INTERESTS, A COMPROMISE ON THE PRINCIPLE OF OROP & A DELIBERATE SNUB TO THE DIGNITY & HONOUR OF OUR ARMED FORCES HAS NOT BEEN ACCEPTED BY OUR VETERAN LEADERS. SECONDLY, THE 7TH PAY COMMISSION HAS ONLY SUBMITTED ITS " RECOMMENDATIONS" BUT THE BUCK STOPS WITH GOI --THE PM & HIS CABINET, HENCE INSTITUTING A "ONE MAN COMMISSION" IS FURTHER DILUTING THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS ISSUE. THIRDLY, WITH THE ABOVE MENTIONED UNRESOLVED ISSUES, IF THE GOI IS STILL TRYING TO BULLDOZE ITS WAY THE IMPLICATIONS ARE TWO FOLD - CARING TWO HOOTS ABOUT THE ARMED FORCES & SECONDLY, TRYING TO CREATE A DIVIDE WITHIN OUR FRATERNITY BECAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE ONE NATIONAL LEVEL ORGANISATION.

AS OF DATE AS PER MY INFORMATION WITHIN A WEEK, OUR VETERAN LEADERS ARE FILING OUR CASE WITH THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA WHICH HAD ALREADY ACCEPTED THE OROP IN ITS CORRECT FORM BASED ON KOSHYARI REPORT.

IN VIEW OF THE ABOVE, FOR OUR LONG TERM INTERESTS , SOLIDARITY AMONG OUR FRATERNITY OF SERVING & RETIRED ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL AND MORE SO FOR THE " IZZAT" OF OUR ARMED FORCES WHICH WE ARE TRYING TO RESTORE THROUGH THIS STEPPING STONE OF OROP

I REQUEST EACH ONE OF US TO HAVE FAITH IN OUR VETERANS WHO HAVE BEEN ON THE ROADSIDE FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS & HAVE BEEN SHEDDING THEIR SWEAT & BLOOD FOR OUR COLLECTIVE GOOD, TO BRING IT TO A DIGNIFIED CONCLUSION.

 HAVING WAITED FOR 42 YEARS WAITING FOR ANOTHER 2-3 MONTHS SHOULDN'T WEAKEN OUR RESOLVE.

I REMAIN, AS EVER YOUR BACK ROOM BOY- 
Sewak
Brig, Sewak S, Sidhu ( Retd )
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Payments Under One Rank Pension Scheme to Start in January: Sources
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