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Saturday, November 26, 2016

DEMONETIZATION : Subramanian Swamy - How demonetization has affected corrupt of India

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D3LBIt7Sfw

Subramanian Swamy - How demonetization has affected corrupt of India

Mr Subramaniam Swamy, on 14 November 2016, during his address to The Foreign Correspondents Club, Hongkong, gives a clear insight into corruption, demonetisation, black money, the steps required to prevent its regeneration and how the 1 Trillion USD lying in foreign banks can be brought back into India. He advocates abolition of Income Tax, transparency & simplicity. Worth watching the video till the very end, especially the question & answer session, which definitely indicates the way ahead for India!

[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D3LBIt7Sfw ]

Veterans Remembrance Day - Vijay Divas Indo-Pakistan War 1971

Veterans Remembrance Day : Vijay Divas Indo-Pakistan War 1971

To commemorate the Vijay Divas Indo-Pakistan War 1971 as the Veterans Remembrance Day, the IESM, Panchkula Branch has invited a well known, and highly regarded security/defence analyst and senior journalist Dr. Manoj Kumar Joshi, Distinguished Fellow and Head, National Security Programme, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi to deliver a lecture on “Evolution of India’s Defence Policy under Pandit Nehru” at Panchkula on Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 1100 H. Dr. Joshi had authored numerous articles, research papers, and three well researched books, two of them on Kashmir.

A digital invite along with the route chart to the Atm Auditorium where the lecture would be held is attached. This auditorium is about 1 Km ahead of the HQ Western Command, Shakti Dwar on the Chandigarh – Shimla Highway just short and immediately to the right of the T Junction on Road Zirakpur – Shimla.

The lecture is open to all including civilians. Ladies are most welcome. Do mark December 10 on your calendar for attending this lecture of great interest. We look to your interaction with the speaker as also the Panchkula IESM team. Kindly be seated by 1045 H. With regards,

Brig Kiran Krishan

Convener, IESM, Panchkula

Mobile: 9876116898

Modi's One Bold Step -DEMONETIZATION & WAIT NEXT FOR BENAMI PROPERTY

Modi's One Bold Step -DEMONETIZATION & WAIT TILL 30 DECEMBER FOR BENAMI PROPERTY

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

PAKI NUKES : NUCLEAR ESTABLISHMENTS OF PAKISTAN

SOURCE :
GOOGLE EARTH

                              TO VIEW
THE PAKI NUKE ESTABLISHMENTS
                                   &
        NUMEROUS NUKE MISSILE SITES

[A] DOWN LOAD GOOGLE EARTH ( IT IS FREE )

[B] CLICK ANY ONE OF THE URLs BELOW

http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/group/gec-sports-hobbies/msg/6560577898ceec76


                                                                        OR

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gec-sports-hobbies/lJxNwLAw7T0;context-place=topicsearchin/gec/sulaimandaud

(a) A GOLF CLUBS IN PAKISTAN WINDOW WILL OPEN UP

(b) CLICK THE DOWNLOAD ICON


(c) A BLANK WINDOW WILL OPEN, LOOK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE   WINDOW & CLICK OPEN ICON

  ( d) NUKE ANNOTATED GOOGLE MAP WILL OPEN

      (e)   MOTHER FO NUKE STOCK PILEs SITE OF SITES OF NUKES DONT FORGET TO VISIT

"KIRANA HILL, SARGODHA"

[ C ] VISIT NUKE LOCATIONs ONE AT A TIME

[D] ENLARGE THE AREA WITH THE FACILITY PROVIDED IN THE GOOGLE EARTH. IN MANY PLACES YOU MAY GET  RESOLUTION ONE METER & AT OTHERS REASONABLE RESOLUTION TO FIGURE OUT THE TARGET AREA depending upon the date of imagery & resolution capability of the satelite

[E] LOOK ON THE TOP RIGHT CORNER OF GOOGLE MAP WINDOW, WILL FIND A ROW OF ICONS. USE TIME SLIDER & SUNLIGHT SLIDER TO PLAY AROUND FOR THE DATE OF IMAGERY TO DETERMINE THE PROGRESS  OF DEVELOPMENT TARGET AREA& SUNLIGHT ICON TO USE REFRACTION OF LIGHT FOR CLEARER RESOLUTION'

PLEASE DONT FORGET TO ENDORSE YOUR COMMENTS IN THIS BLOG

[A] SCREEN SHOT KIRANA HILLS SARGODHA

[B] KHUSHAB NUKE COMPLEX

[C] AREA MIANWALI NUKES COMPLEX

IMAGE WITH DARK (NO) SUNLIGHT

IMAGE WITH SUNLIGHT

URANIUM EXTRACTION PLANT, KALA SHAH KAKU

M-11 MISSILE STORAGE & FIRING SILOS GUJRANWALA

more sites & firing nuke missiles silos will follow

Countering China: India’s Uncertain Response – Analysis

SOURCE:http://www.eurasiareview.com/23112016-countering-china-indias-uncertain-response-analysis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eurasiareview%2FVsnE+%28Eurasia+Review%29

                         Countering China:
                India’s Uncertain Response – Analysis
                                                           By
                                            Harry Roberts*

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi with China's President Xi Jinping. Photo Credit: Narendra Modi, Wikipedia Commons.

November 23, 2016

China’s rise, and especially, its growing strategic footprint in the Indian Ocean region has provoked policymakers India to come up with appropriate policy approaches to counter its northern neighbour. However, India’s policy towards China so far can be best described as a somewhat confused and uncertain one. India in recent years has shown signs of cultivating closer ties with the US, moving away from its tradition of seeking strategic autonomy, it continues to remain cautious in potentially alienating China due to the importance of its bilateral economic relations with China. Some analysts have made much of India’s strengthened ties with the US, dominating the security architecture in the Indian Ocean and Asia-Pacific regions. The US designated India as a “major defence partner” in June 2016 in the hope that India will play a key role in complementing its own strategic shift towards the region. A senior Obama administration official has said that this partnership will mean that India will be the only country outside Washington’s formal treaty allies that will gain access to almost 99 per cent of the latest American defence technologies.

Furthermore, there are trends that point towards growing US-India military cooperation. The signing of the Logistics and Supply Memorandum of Agreement with the USA in August 2016 is one such indicator. India now also carries out more joint exercises with the US than with any other nation, including the annual Malabar maritime exercise that in 2007 was broadened to include Japan, Australia and Singapore.

However, such developments can equally be viewed as a sign of India’s relative weakness vis-à-vis China rather than a pronounced long-term shift towards the US. While there are ambitious plans to enlarge the Indian Navy, including the building of three Aircraft Carriers fielding a combined 120-130 aircrafts, these will not be ready until at least 2030.
Until then, an alliance with the US can amplify India’s strategic impact in the region.

Interestingly, much of the hubbub over this bilateral defence cooperation has been coming from the US itself as part of its long-term effort at wooing India to align with the US ‘Pivot to Asia’. The US Department of Defense’s strategic guidance released in 2012, which set out its expected shift towards the Asia-Pacific, highlighted the importance of a strategic partnership with India to
“support its ability to serve as a regional economic anchor and provider of security in the broader Indian Ocean region.”

With the US “Pivot” aimed at curtailing a rising China, India faces a conundrum as it has been forced to pick sides. By hitching its wagon to the US, India is aware of the possibility of provoking an adverse Chinese reaction.

India’s hesitant policy towards China is evident from its approach towards the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
While some commentators have attempted to depict India as hostile to the project, there is little actual evidence to support this.
India’s development of the Chahbahar Port in Iran, located just 72 kilometres from the Gwadar Port in Pakistan, is perhaps the only direct response and challenge to the Chinese project. However, while India may not be comfortable with the project, outright hostility would be anti-intuitive due to the tacit understanding that if CPEC turns out to be a true ‘game changer’ for Pakistan’s troubled economy it would bolster the civilian government in Islamabad thereby opening up possibilities of greater engagement with India. Improved economic regional integration would, in turn, benefit India’s national security as well.

It would then be wrong to view these developments as a ‘zero-sum’ game. Despite, at times, a jingoistic tabloid press in India, there are many influential people who advocate for deeper engagement with China. India’s former Petroleum Minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, suggested that an envisaged gas pipeline from Iran to Pakistan should be extended to India and then onto China, thereby creating further interdependencies and avoiding competition. India’s former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Oman and UAE, Talmiz Ahmed, has also said that “there is no need to fear the One Belt, One Road [ OBOR] – both the OBOR and China need India as a partner”.

Indeed, Narendra Modi’s government has shown a commitment to deeper engagement with China. During Modi’s visit to China in May 2015 trade agreements worth $22 billion were signed. Such deals indicate the confidence with which both party’s view the future of this relationship.

India response to China’s rise has so far been muddled and somewhat contradictory. While partnering with the US more closely is seen by some as a clear evidence of India picking sides, this seems more of a case of US courtship than the other way round. India, to a certain extent is free-riding on the US security architecture until it has augmented its own military strength.

Currently, it is not in India’s interests to compete with China. Despite Indian economic growth and a Chinese slowdown, India is still far behind in terms of its ability to challenge China. Economic interdependence -trade between the two is valued at $70 billion – perhaps further explains India’s muted reactions regarding regional and international disputes involving China. Given Modi’s history of close interactions with the Chinese during his tenure as Gujarat’s Chief Minister, further engagement, barring any unexpected negative developments, can be expected.

Pakistan Gen. Raheel Sharif’s Superannuation: Evolving Scenarios – Analysis

SOURCE:
http://www.eurasiareview.com/23112016-pakistan-gen-raheel-sharifs-superannuation-evolving-scenarios-analysis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eurasiareview%2FVsnE+%28Eurasia+Review%29

Pakistan Gen. Raheel Sharif’s Superannuation:                     Evolving Scenarios – Analysis
                                       By
                            Portia B. Conrad*

November 23, 2016

If the retirement of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif transpires in November 2016, it could have significant strategic implications for Pakistan. Until January 2016, it was expected that Gen Sharif, like his predecessors Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Gen Pervez Musharraf, would receive an extension. However, Gen Sharif has put the speculation regarding his extension to rest and revealed his plan to retire naturally at the culmination of his three-year term. This is an opportune moment to look at the superannuation options for the Gen and possible roles that he might assume.

Gen Sharif became Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff in November 2013 and his appointment broke the established seniority principle. Today, Sharif has become an important power centre in Pakistan’s political conundrum. He calls the shots on all the key strategic initiatives in recent years – which have included Operation Zarb-e-Azb (which commenced in June 2014); National the Action Plan (December 2014); the extension of the Karachi Operations (July 2015); pooling support to block the ban on Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM); and the agreement on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). General Sharif also plays an influential role in revamping Pakistan’s relations with the US, Russia and Iran, and in negotiating with the Afghan Taliban.

Significantly, Gen Sharif has ensured that the civilian leadership headed by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif toes the line of the military establishment. Every resistance from the civilian establishment has been met with a veiled threat of facilitating mid-term elections. However, despite a history of military takeover of political power from the civilian leadership, there has been no mention of a coup under Gen Sharif.

Scenario One: Change of Guard

There have been three sets of reshuffles, transfers and promotions carried out under the supervision of General Raheel Sharif – in December 2013, in April 2015 and in January 2016 – that provide clues to his successorship. Based on these changes, the most likely successor is Chief of General Staff (CGS) Lt Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat, who is also the former chief of the Strategic Plans Division (SPD). The other contenders include Lt Gen Mazhar Jamil, Director General (DG), SPD; Lt Gen Ishfaq Nadeem, Commander, Multan-based 2 Corps and formerly the CGS; Lt Gen Maqsood Ahmad, who is currently in the US serving as the Military Adviser in the UN Department of Peace Keeping Operations (DPKO). On 29 November 2016, Ahmad will be the senior-most Lieutenant General in Pakistan. Other candidates include Lt Gen Syed Wajid Hussain, Chairman, Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT) and former Commandant of School of Armour, Nowshera – who is third in the seniority list; and Lt Gen Najibullah Khan, Director General, Joint Staff, Joint Staff Headquarters, Chaklala – who is fourth in the seniority list.

Scenario Two: Leadership beyond Pakistan

The transition, if it happens, could be complicated considering Gen Sharif’s hold on Pakistan’s internal political and security related issues. Despite the available options, there is also a possibility that Gen Sharif could recommend a titular head under his watch even as he takes up a supervisory role overseeing politics in Pakistan and involving other Islamic nations. He could take up a competent role in the Islamic Military Alliance (IMA) – a 34-nation group formed in 2015, led by Saudi Arabia, including Pakistan, to fight terrorism. A leadership role in the IMA might help project his image as a messiah beyond Pakistan – a regional-cum-religious figure. Gen Sharif presently co-leads a similar coalition of 20-nations called ‘North Thunder’.

Scenario Three: Virtual Retention of Power

In a third scenario, Gen Sharif may create an advisory post within Pakistan which enables him to hold on to power. He could propagate his proven decision making skills to retain a position of influence in the country. For instance, the post of Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) also falls vacant on 29 November 2016.

Theoretically, the CJCSC is the senior-most four-star officer of the Pakistani military. The post is ceremonial, but the incumbent has a say in the deployment and use of nuclear weapons and he is also a principal advisor to the prime minister. The Army would likely be supportive of this arrangement since Gen Sharif’s positive image has benefited in improving the Army’s own image, which had suffered setbacks after Osama bin Laden was found and killed in Abbottabad in 2011.

Conclusion

Despite Pakistani media reports of mysterious banners indicating that Gen Sharif will participate in the upcoming 2018 general elections, there is no authenticity to this speculation. If Gen Sharif keeps to his word and chooses to lead a retired life, there will be little scope for his successor to change the overall contours of Pakistan’s security policy and strategic dimensions on foreign policy in the coming years. The Pakistani military has robust command-and-control and a clear hierarchy; the establishment’s ethos, which pre-date Sharif’s leadership, will persist long after he is gone. Even then, Gen Sharif’s kind of leadership has been unprecedented. His profound ability to balance a proxy war and diplomatic ties make him a distinctive figure in Pakistan even after his superannuation.

Army Launches Massive Counter Assault On Pakistan After Soldier's Beheading

SOURCE:
http://www.msn.com/en-in/news/newsindia/army-launches-massive-counter-assault-on-pakistan-after-soldiers-beheading/ar-AAkEdnN?li=AAggbRN&ocid=iehp

Army Launches Massive Counter Assault On Pakistan After Soldier's Beheading

SRINAGAR:

The Indian army has launched massive fire assaults on Pakistan along the Line of Control, a day after a soldier was mutilated and two more killed, for which it had vowed "heavy retribution".

The entire Line of Control, the de facto border between India and Pakistan, is now a hot zone with firing at Poonch, Rajouri, Kel and Machil, said the army, indicating that a localized response is not enough after repeated incidents.

On Tuesday, a soldier was beheaded and two others killed by Pakistani commandos who crossed over at Machil. Just three weeks ago, another soldier was beheaded not far from the spot. "Retribution will be heavy for this cowardly act," the army said in a statement.

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120 mm heavy mortars and machine guns are being used in the attack on Pakistani army posts.

The soldiers were ambushed while they were on a patrol in the Machil sector in north Kashmir by the Border Action Team of the Pakistan army. Indian posts are closer to Pakistan in this sector and the rugged terrain and thicker forests gives intruders an advantage.

The army said today's assault is a direct message that mutilation is not acceptable and India's response will be quick and massive.

ALSO ON MSN: Army set for maximum retaliation

Pakistan has denied the incident and termed the reports as false and baseless.

Last month, terrorists helped by Pakistani troops mutilated the body of 27-year-old Sepoy Mandeep Singh before running back into Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.

ALSO READ: Soldier's body mutilated

Eighteen soldiers, including five from the Border Security Force, have died in firing from Pakistan while India says it has killed at least 29 Pakistani troops in retaliation.

There has been a spurt in ceasefire violations since the September surgical strikes, when Indian soldiers crossed over the Line of Control and destroyed staging areas for terrorists who were getting ready to enter India to carry out a series of attacks. The strikes were seen as India's response to the Uri attack in which 19 soldiers were killed by terrorists from Pakistan.

After the attack, the army said it reserved the right to respond to any cross-border terror attack "at the time and place of our own choosing".

WATCH:
Were surgical strikes really a deterrent

[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNtd5_R8CQ ]

[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnL6b0xX6lk ]

[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYoJM8IG4Ng ]