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China…. Karakoram….. Pakistan

Many moons ago I made a prediction on the Karakoram China nexus. 

Here 

This was also a reason for the start of the Kargil war and the Siachen conflict. 

With the current situation in Pakistan, it is this close to become the next Afghanisthan.Floods, Terrorists, Drones,  Riots. Just watching what the nation has done to itself is a pleasure. Mhd Ali Jinnah (Quiad -e-Azam) must be rolling in his grave. 

Now everything I predicted  seems to be coming true..(don’t you just love when that happens? I must rename my self to the oracle or the soothsayer or something :D Although I cannot see my own future, but none the less) 

I don’t really understand, at times they say India steals its water, They the records prove it is the mis management on the part of the Pakistanis (well Duh!) 

Please see the video that I embedded. 

  

Pakistan does a back flip on India stealing water. 

  

Corruption is our right
  

I love this dude…he speaks his heart out!!!! 

Now Pakistan is flooded and they blame India for that. Too bad they cannot blame the jews for this 

 
 
 
 
 
 

  

India now trying to flood Lahore, alleges daily

 
 
 2010-08-28 17:30:00
India has caused the devastating floods in Pakistan by releasing excess water into the Satluj and Beas rivers and now is trying to inundate Lahore by pumping more water in the Ravi, an editorial in a Pakistani paper said Saturday.

Here 

 Anyway now coming back to the point, China and Karakoram. I was mentioning China was making a second port in gawder to take the gold copper and  mineral out of  Pakistan.  Here  

Now the chinese are smart, they do not want to keep all their eggs in one basket. They want alternatives to the ship route. they have seen in the past that the Indian navy has very effectively blocked the Pakistan ports and has brought things to a halt in the port .This can harm the Chinese manufacturing industry., So now they decided to make a road from all the way from Baluchistan to China via the Karakoram. please read my article on the karakoram highway kargil war and Siachen  here 

Now with Pakistan being in a Mess of a situation and the Army having no control over 80 % of the Pakistani land mass,  helping the Americans kill their own people, helping people in floods and killing innocent people in Baluchistan,  the Chinese decided to send their own people to protect their investment. 

While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China. 

China wants a grip on the region to assure unfettered road and rail access to the Gulf through Pakistan. It takes 16 to 25 days for Chinese oil tankers to reach the Gulf. When high-speed rail and road links through Gilgit and Baltistan are completed, China will be able to transport cargo from Eastern China to the new Chinese-built Pakistani naval bases at Gwadar, Pasni and Ormara, just east of the Gulf, within 48 hours. 

Mystery surrounds the construction of 22 tunnels in secret locations where Pakistanis are barred. Tunnels would be necessary for a projected gas pipeline from Iran to China that would cross the Himalayas through Gilgit. But they could also be used for missile storage sites. 

  

The New York times 

To break it down for you , China has sent 11,000 of its soldiers to Baltistan and Gilgit  which are essentially marked in red, in this picture. 

The Region in red

The Region in red

 

 Now this regions is PoK 

PoK, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir

PoK, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir

 

So  what Pakistan is doing is “allowing” Chinese people to come in  PoK , which  Indians claim as theirs, And allowing the Chinese construct a High speed railway and a high way,  which will connect China to Iran and then to the Middle east. just to give you an idea how big this road will be, It will start some where in Bejing go via Tibet, to Pakistan, Iran and reach the middle east and then  probably Africa and all this bypassing India. They are restructiong the Silk route, this time by a high speed train link and now instead of trading  of silk they will be trading energy and chinese junk. 

Silk route

Silk route, Red is Land routes and the Blue is sea routes

 

Now, not only have they sent workers to do the jobs but they have also sent 11,000 army men to protect the workers from the local disturbances. 

The entire Pakistan-occupied western portion of Kashmir stretching from Gilgit in the north to Azad (Free) Kashmir in the south is closed to the world, in contrast to the media access that India permits in the eastern part, where it is combating a Pakistan-backed insurgency. But reports from a variety of foreign intelligence sources, Pakistani journalists and Pakistani human rights workers reveal two important new developments in Gilgit-Baltistan: a simmering rebellion against Pakistani rule and the influx of an estimated 7,000 to 11,000 soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army. 

The New York Times 

 This is essentially a problem and there is nothing Indians can do about it but to keep a ever more watchful eye on the Siachen glacier. 

Just wanted to pass a casual warning to you guys 

The Importance of Siachen glacier In context of the Karakorum glacier here. 

On the Chinese govt side, their economy is growing at  double figure, If i remember the agriculture industry in the soviet union grew in triple figures in the mid 60′s but in the end it eventually broke  like a wine glass with thousands of pieces every where, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine etc. Anyway, what i am trying to say it, The bigger they are the harder they fall. 

What is India doing? 

Well, With the incompetent Manmohan Singh and his foreign policy over China I cannot anything more  from him. Apart from building a few dams here and there in the Kashmir region, Nothing much. 

Please read ” Sleeping tiger, Crouching Dragon” by me.

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AWACS… India gets two

These are the new pics of the seconds AWACS that is about to be delivered to India ….Most probably next year.

Look at the tail Number

Look at the tail Number

 The Tail Number is KW 3552.

This baby is being tested in the skies of Israel. It will be delivered to India,  probably  early next year.

 

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Tail Number KW 3552

 

 

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Tail Number KW 3552

 

 

Here is a the First AWACS, Look at the tail number

The tail number is  KW3551

Check the tail number of the First one KW 3551

Check the tail number of the First one KW 3551

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10 years of Kargil war

It’s the 10 anniversary of the Kargil war.

Let’s start by why this war was exactly held

What was Pakistan’s interest in Siachen?
Before we can answer this we need to go to Siachen.

What is Siachen?

The Siachen Glacier is located in the eastern Karakoram Range in the Himalaya Mountains at about  35°30N 77°00E / 35.5°N 77.0°E / 35.5; 77.0, just east of the Line of Control between India-Pakistan. India controls all of the Siachen Glacier itself, including all tributary glaciers.

So what is the big deal?
To answer this question we need to ask what is  the Karakoram Highway

What is the  Karakoram Highway?
The Karakoram Highway (KKH)is the highest paved international road in the world. It connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an altitude of 4,693 m/15,397 ft. as confirmed by both SRTM and multiple GPS readings. It connects China’s Xinjiang region with Pakistan’s Northern Areas.

Karakoram Highway

Karakoram Highway

Click to enlarge the pic and see how strategically Siachen is placed to counter the entire highway

Now we come back to the question

What was Pakistan’s interest in Siachen?
India is strategically placed its army in Siachen which overlooks the Karakoram high way. Sitting at this position the Indians can target the entire high way and its traffic at will and at ease.
This is again important because every time India has a conflict with Pakistan …the first move made by Indians is a navel blockade. India stations an aircraft carrier outside Karachi port acting as a deterrent to all the merchant ships trying to enter Pakistan.
With no oil in Pakistan they surrender within a week or two.

But why do we want to target this highway?

This is the oil age ..Anyone who controls oil is the king. The first and the foremost ingredient needed to start and sustain a war is oil.
Pakistan can only last for week or two if it does not get additional supplies of oil from the world. So in case of a war an Indian battle ship is placed in the Arabian Sea to push back all the oil tankers coming into Karachi or Gwader.

Please read  of  a past naval blockade of Pakistan.Google  Operation Talwar

Now china can supply oil (Theoretically) arms and ammunition from this route. So it is important for us to cover this point too.

Okay cool I got the point lets go ahead.

Just to give you a sense of time the Siachen conflict started in 1984 and the

Karakoram highway was built in 1986.
Now Pakistan will never feel safe with Indians watching them from the top of a mountain

A picture will give you a better understanding.

So what was the Pakistani plan?
One must appreciate the planning of the Pakistani’s..I do …they had a brilliant plan.

In winters there was an unsaid understanding that both of them(India and Pakistan) empty their camps and go back to their bases as it would get too cold for them
to hold ground. This was done for the past 20-30 years. India had nothing to suspect anything un usual and more over the India was making good progress with Pakistan in terms of PR with Vajpayee going to Pakistan and India Pakistan bus and stuff like that.
Pakistanis took advantage of this and occupied Indian posts in winter itself. They were well supplied and they had stayed there for over a couple of months and had managed to get some heavy military equipment  and were well equipped…better equipped than the Indian Army

a. Modernizing the Services. The war in Kargil has effectively highlighted that besides bravery and raw courage our officers and jawans need to be better equipped both in respect of arms and equipment. Imagine a rag-tag band of militants were better equipped than the fourth largest army in the world — what can be more insulting or demoralizing!

Source

Well it goes without saying that all this stuff was sponsored from china and it was in response to  the then Defense minister George  calling China India’s number 1 enemy.

China only wanted to reciprocate the same feeling to India but this time in a better way.

So what was Pakistan’s plan?

Pakistani’s had planed that while nawaz sherrif diverts attention of Indian politicians from the Kashmir front, the army will infiltrate the posts occupy them and make a strong hold.The Indians will not respond appropriately and will go crying to US.US will announce a seize fire and Pakistan get hold of the strategic position and will co ordinate an attack at the siachen glacier with an attack at NH 1A.This will stop crucial equipment from reaching siachen and we will loose siachen to Pakistan and eventually the karakoram highway.

So where did it go wrong ?

1.The Indian response.The then Indian defense minister saw this and gave the army,navy and the air force  a free hand to do what ever they can from the Indian side of Kashmir and get the intruders out.

The army brought bofors guns to hit the enemy bunkers accurately.

The Airforce was used to target the enemy bunkers where bofors could not be used.This was the first time Laser guided bombs were used in the war.

You can see the footage of the bombs that were dropped on the bunkers of Tiger hill .

2.Indians response was so great that the Pakistani planning went wrong. More over Kargil war was also open to the media. Watch video.

Now with the support of the international community getting low Pakistanis could not get the required Cease fire from US. Instead US asked them to vacant their position and refused to get dragged into this war.

With time running short and Indians navy blocking the ports of Karachi ,nawaz sherrif had no choice but to order a withdrawal of his troops. But Musharraf was not the one who wanted to withdraw. He wanted to make it into a war rather than a battle. Nawaz in the mean while thought of blaming Musharraf  for the whole scenario as it would be more convenient for him. There was a falling out between them and it is at this moment that Nawaz Sherrif ordered the killing  of Musharaff.

Musharraf survived the assassination and took over Pakistan in a Military coup.

So all in all ..The plan was great execution was nice but the sustainability was bad.

It’s been 10 years what has been the change now?

Well the Indian posts are manned for 24 hours a day and 365 days a week ,they have gone high tech and they are never left. Hot water, TV, Free telephone fridge ,heater, cooker.

Each and every bunker is self sustained with enough ration to last a year.helicopters are kept at disposal

The Indian army provides each jawan with some of the best winter clothing available in the world, snow boots and anti-glare goggles. Pucca barracks have been built and are heated using a kerosene “sikri” that has an exhaust system. The toilets are also heated using the same technique. Dehydrated food is available at all posts during winter. The power supply through generators is regulated to conserve fuel.

The best part for the jawans is that they can talk to their wives, children and parents on a daily basis. At places where the BSNL network is not available, satellite phones have been provided. Each post has a TV and DTH connection. The leader of the group regulates television viewing.

A doctor is attached with each unit, while each post has a jawan who has been trained in nursing. There is also the facility to land a chopper to evacuate anyone who is not feeling well.

Source

“The newly-built defences are fully covered from both sides with two thick parallel-running stone walls, thick overhead protection which can bear any kind of fire from the enemy,” the officer said.

The idea for building these new defences came up after the army realised that the stone walls at posts facing the enemy directly and at close distances were not effective in providing shelter against shells fired in the ‘air-burst’ mode as the splinters were causing damage to the troops.

“Now even artillery shells fired in the air-burst mode would prove to be ineffective as our soldiers would be fully covered from all sides,” the officer said.

Source

Now with all this in place there can be no chance of another mis adventure from Pakistan at least on this front.
Watch this video of how Pakistani army surrendered and accepts in soldiers bodies

And almost then entire Indo Pak   border has been fenced with thermal imagery installed to monitor the movement of people both above and below ground and hence forth  you do not see any more militant activities in Srinagar and Kashmir.

Watch the video of the national anthem at Siachen

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26/11 dossier download

Ever wondered what Govt. of India gave to Govt of Pakistan in that dossier

Well wonder no more.

Walk in the park

Walk in the park


Here is a copy of that dossier for you

In three parts

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Well the pdf files are 3 -10 mb big …just to warn you

Source Hindustan times

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Diwali in Pakistan?

From the bombing incident we get to hear in Pakistan it seems that they are celebrating a Diwali with blood.

Hardly a week has passed with out a bombing incident.The rate of bombings and deaths have surpassed any country in Africa.

If they go on at this rate they will surpass the deaths from diseases, genocide, suicide  and natural deaths of Africa

I pulled this list from Wikipedia and If this is not a failed state then what is ??

Suicide attacks in Pakistan in 2009

January – March 2009

  • January 4 At least seven people, three of them policemen and two journalists, were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the Government Polytechnic College near an imambargah on Multan Road in Dera Ismail Khan. About 25 people were injured, most of them policemen.[198]
  • January 10 A fierce gunbattle between rival sects in Hangu continued on Saturday amid efforts to broker an early truce to stop bloodshed. Official sources said that 26 people, including the deputy chairman of the local chapter of the Ahli Sunnat Wal Jamaat, Mufti Rustam, had been killed and several others injured in the two-day fighting.[199]
  • January 26 At least five people have been killed and many more wounded in a bomb blast in north-west Pakistan, police say. The bomb, attached to a bicycle, went off on a busy main road in the town of Dera Ismail Khan.[200] While in an another incident, Hussain Ali Yousafi, chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party, was shot dead by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in the southwestern city of Quetta.[201]
    A road block caused by a bomb blast in pakistan

    A road block caused by a bomb blast in pakistan


  • February 3 One man was killed and 18 others injured in a hand grenade attack on a Sunni mosque at Mohallah Joginwala in Dera Ismail Khan district on Tuesday evening.[202]
  • February 5 Up to 32 people were killed when a suspected suicide bombing ripped through a crowd of Shia worshippers outside a Dera Ghazi Khan mosque on Thursday. Police said the blast targeted dozens of people converging on the Al Hussainia Mosque after dark, shortly before a religious gathering.[203]
  • February 7 At least seven officers were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in Mianwali in Punjab near restive North-West Frontier province.[204]
  • February 11 Awami National Party (ANP) provincial lawmaker Alam Zeb Khan was killed and eight people injured in a remote-controlled blast on Wednesday. The bomb had been fitted to a motorbike parked near the residence of the slain MPA on Dalazak Road in Peshawar. This was the sixth such attack on ANP in less than a year.[205]
  • February 17 At least three people were killed by a car bomb which exploded outside the home of a government official in north-western Pakistan. The bomb targeted a local anti-Taleban mayor in the suburb of Bazidkhel near the city of Peshawar. He survived but several people were hurt. [206]
  • February 20 A curfew was imposed in Dera Ismail Khan on Friday and the army called in to quell riots immediately after a suicide bomber killed at least 30 Shia’s and injured another 157 who were attending a funeral in southern Dera Ismail Khan district. Witnesses said police ‘ran off’ when gunfire broke out after the blast at the funeral of Shia leader Sher Zaman – who was gunned down a day earlier.[207]
  • March 2 A suicide bomber killed five and injured 12 people at a girls’ religious school in Pishin District of Balochistan on Monday.[208]
  • March 5 One person was killed and 19 others sustained injuries when a hand-grenade hurled by unidentified miscreants at the worshippers exploded in Ameer Hamza mosque in Dera Ismail Khan.[210] While in Peshawar, unidentified miscreants blew up the mausoleum of the most-revered mystic poet of the Pakhtun land Rahman Baba in the wee hours of Thursday by planting four bombs inside the structure of the shrine.[211]
  • March 7 A bomb-laden car exploded in Peshawar as police tried to pull a body from it killing eight people and injuring five. Seven of the dead were policemen while the other was a passerby. In a separate incident, a roadside bomb killed three civilians and wounded four troops in the town of Darra Adam Khel.[212]
  • March 11 NWFP Senior Minister and Awami National Party leader Bashir Bilour survived an assassination attempt that left six people, including two suspected suicide attackers, dead in Namak Mandi in Peshawar on Wednesday. Four persons, including a young girl, who was married on Sunday last, were critically wounded in the firing, grenade attack and suicide blast. This was the second assassination attempt on Bilour in less than six months and seventh suicide attack on ANP in little over a year.[213]
  • March 16 At least 14 people were killed and 17 injured on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the busiest bus stand of Rawalpindi at Pirwadhai.[214]
  • March 23 A security official was killed and three others injured in a suicide bombing outside a police Special Branch office in Islamabad on Monday.[216]
  • March 27 76 persons were killed and over 100 injured in an apparent suicide attack on a mosque at Peshawar-Torkham Highway in Jamrud, Khyber Agency during the Friday congregation. Intelligence sources, however, put the number of dead at 86 but officials of the political administration were conservative by putting the death toll at 50.[218]
  • March 30 At least eight police recruits and a civilian were killed when about 10 terrorists attacked the Manawan Police Training School in Lahore near the border with India with guns and grenades on Monday. Security forces regained control of the facility in an operation that lasted for more than eight hours. About 93 cadets and civilians were injured.[219]

April – June 2009

  • April 4 A suicide bomber struck a camp of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) at Margalla Road in Islamabad on Saturday, killing at least eight FC personnel and a civilian, besides the attacker himself, and injuring 12 others.[220]
  • April 5 A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia religious gathering in an Imambargah in Chakwal on Sunday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 60. The attacker struck at the gates of a Shia mosque where some 1,200 people were attending a religious gathering.[221]
The remains of the car used .... ebay ?

The remains of the car used .... ebay ?

  • April 6 Police found bullet-riddled bodies of four local aid workers, including three women, in Shinkiari area of Mansehra District on Monday.[222]
  • April 15 A suicide car bomber attacked a security post in north-western Pakistan, killing at least 18 people, nine of them police and injuring five others. The bomber set off his explosives as he pulled up at a checkpoint in Charsadda, a town near the city of Peshawar.[223]
  • April 18 A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb at a checkpoint in the northwestern Pakistani town of Hangu’s Doaba area Saturday, killing at least 22 people, including five security personnel, and injuring another 15.[224]
  • April 26 12 children were killed in north-western Pakistan after playing with a bomb they mistook for a toy. The children died after the bomb, which resembled a football, exploded on Saturday in Lower Dir District.[225]
  • April 29 Targeted killings in Karachi claimed the lives of 34 people and wounded 40 in a matter of hours by unidentified gunmen in different parts of the city. In the month-long incidents of violence until April 28, the police record showed that 16 people had been shot dead and 54 wounded in different incidents of targeted killings. The statistics further showed that of the total number of people, 43 people belonged to the Pakhtun community while seven happened to be Urdu-speaking people.[226]
  • May 5 Seven people, two children and a Frontier Corps soldier among them, were killed and 48 others injured when an explosives-laden car rammed into a pick-up near a checkpost on the Peshawar-Bara road 12 km west of Peshawar Cantonment on Tuesday morning.[227]
  • May 11 10 people died as a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden vehicle near an FC checkpost in the outskirts of Darra Adam Khel on Monday, killing eight civilians and two security personnel and injuring 27 other people.[228]
  • May 16 Two successive bomb blasts rocked Peshawar on Saturday, leaving 13 people dead and 34 others injured. A powerful car-bomb killed 12 people and wounded 31 others, including schoolchildren and women, in the Barisco area, while a low intensity device ripped through a garments store in the packed Gora Bazaar in Peshawar Saddar, killing a minor girl and injuring three others.[229]
  • May 21 At least nine people – four civilians and five security personnel – were killed and 25 injured in a suicide attack near an Frontier Corps (FC) fort in Jandola area of Tank on Thursday evening.[230]
  • May 22 At least 10 people were killed and 75 injured when a powerful car bomb went off outside a cinema in Peshawar’s Cinema Road area on Friday evening.[231]
  • May 27 Suicide bombers detonated a vehicle loaded with 100 kilograms of explosives near offices of the capital city police officer (CCPO) and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Lahore on Wednesday – killing at least 27 people and wounding 326, in addition to destroying a two-story building of the Rescue 15 p
    The bomb Apparently hit the water pipe line

    The bomb Apparently hit the water pipe line

    olice service.[232]

  • May 28 A succession of blasts rocked the NWFP on Thursday, killing 13 people, including five policemen, and injuring over 90 others. Three blasts, one of them a suicide attack targeting a police post, took place in Peshawar and one suicide bombing at a security checkpost in Dera Ismail Khan.[233]
  • June 5 At least 40 people were killed and another 70 injured during Friday prayers when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in Hayagai Sharqai village in Upper Dir District.[234]
  • June 6 Two policemen were killed after a young man carried out a suicide attack against Rescue 15, a police helpline unit, in Islamabad on Saturday. At least four other policemen were injured.[235]
  • June 8 A wave of violence emanating from rivalries between political factions in Karachi continued to spread as 12 more people fell victim to target killings on Monday. Thus, the number of political activists to have fallen victim to target killings during the first week of June reached 35.[236] Most of the victims had fallen prey to the bloody rivalry of MQM (Altaf) and MQM (Haqiqi) factions; the latest incidence seeming to be sparked from the efforts of reunification of Amir and Afaq groups, that constitute the MQM (Haqiqi) group, at the behest of Imran Khan.[237]
  • June 9 A massive truck bomb ripped through the five-star Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar on Tuesday killing 11 people and more than wounding 60. The attackers entered the compound on two vehicles at about 10:30pm, spraying the security guards at the hotel gate with bullets from one and blowing up the other in the hotel parking.[238] The death toll later rose to 17.[239]
I have kept the links alive if someone wants to check the legitimacy of the links
Prime ministerial candidates are being killed (Benazir Bhutto),The state guests are being attacked (Sri lankan cricket team),the militants are killing at free will.
Do we need more proof that Pakistan’s nukes are not safe ?

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