Tamilnadu Government has pardoned 9 prisoners who were convicted in Coimbatore blasts cases and released them. What is rather ironic is that one of the pardoned prisoners could not be released as he is accused in a case threatening jail officials which is in trial stage!!This shows how the Tamilnadu Government has applied its mind to the whole issue of pardon.It is pure and simple political but NOT due to GOOD BEHAVIOUR in Prison which is what called "reforming prisoners"in Criminal justice system. In India a terrorist is rarely caught. Rarely convicted if caught.But when punished by courts is pardoned due to political reasons.This shows how we treat LIFE IN INDIA AS CHEAP. The UPA government is demanding that Prof Hafeez Zaeed of LET/JUD ibe punished. In India we could not convict Abdul Maudany of PDP whose bail was refused by Supreme court of India twice in Coimbatore blast case.But Prof Hafeez of LET is a venerable man indulging in charity along with giving religious sermon to "Freedom fighters" who go on suicide missions into India.Prof Hafeez Saeed will not be convicted in Indian courts if one goes by Maudany's acquittal.Preaching JIHAD is not an offence.
Now can these prisoners be released when an appeal against their less sentence is pending in court? http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/04/stories/2009080455170400.htm
The recent evidence obtained by Kerala and Karnataka police in the Kashmir killing of 3 Kerala youths point to disturbing trend of Maudany getting bold enough by his acquittal and political connection with both CPI(M) and Congress http://www.indianexpress.com/news/karat-blasts-communal-iuml-but-look-who-is-its-kerala-comrade/435429/0
http://www.dailypioneer.com/191338/Madani’s-terror-links-surface-again.html
http://www.idsa.in/publications/stratcomments/VinodKumar111108.htm
This also shows poor coordination between various state police forces about criminal/terrorist acts in neighbouring states where corroborating evidence is not shared.
It was in 1996 Al Umma started its campaign by killing a jailor Bholanathan and putting fire in DIG(Prisons) office in Coimbatore.Nobody was convicted in that case. They then killed a traffic constable Selvaraj which caused a communal riot in which some 12 people died.Nobody was caught.Now they became bold enough to target then Home Minister LKAdvani with car bomb and suicide bombers.This caused death of 58 innocent civilian lives. This opened the eyes of DMK which banned the outfit Al-Umma.Jayalaitha government was voted to power and she could crack the case and arrest Maudany and other conspirators.But now we see the present DMK regime following a policy by which they assume mollycoddling to convicted terrorists will get them votes from Muslim masses. If this true, then it is dangerous for unity of India.I only hope DMK assessment is untrue.
Now we see how the UK government treats its religious preachers and terrorists.http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Liquid-bombers-jailed-for-airliner.5644800.jp These guys have not killed one single UK citizen.They were just planning an attack and also interacting with Pakistani handlers.The electronic eavesdropping evidence will not stand scrutiny in Indian court.Also confession in videos and before police officers are not admissible as evidence.. These guys could never be convicted in India .
But the chattering class will talk about inefficiency of pot bellied Indian police. But they never will ask why
1. A Muslim locality is called SENSITIVE by local media and local police.Why?
2.Why should there be special security during Lord Ganesh immersion ceremony.Dusserrah celebrations,Ramadan period, etc etc.Why fridays are considered sensitive by local police?Why Ganesha idol has to follow a particular route.Why cannot Muslims bear with sound and noise of processions once a year?Being a christian, I find it annoying sometimes when loud marriage processions or other noisy processions pass during the time of worship. But that is India and we are full of noise and we have to bear with it sometimes.
3.Terrrorists donot become saints once inside the jail when convicted.They TERRORISE the jail staff by bribe,blackmail or by sheer terror of their followers outside.The jail staff face the wrath of terrorists 24/7, all through their stay and this is not at all understood by the ruling elite of India.
During a recent TV programme, senior diplomat and security expert Shri.G.Parthasarathy lamented that 26/11 case should have been filed in US court as some odd US citizens also lost their lives and this would have made Pakistan to pursue the case of Prof Hafeez saeed with more vigour and thereby implied that US lives are more valuable in the eyes of Pakistanis.When Indians do not value INDIAN LIVES and treat it cheap how can we expect Pakistan to look at our lives with value
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Global NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT/ PAKISTANI FLY in the ointment
Global NUCLEAR OINTMENT and PAKISTANI FLY!
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-41661220090810?sp=true
Why Pakistan is asking for time? Why the delaying tactics? Why suddenly Obama administration backed away from past US objections to potential terms for fissile material inspections? India,Pakistan and North Korea have openly conducted nuke tests.Israel may have an ambiguous programme and it may NOT allow inspections of its CIVIL SITES but still
Obama might have got a deal from Israel which allows the ambiguity to continue.India has got its NSG waiver but then only North Korea and Pakistan are left.North Korea wants a deal which will ensure the continuation of the regime and also allowing it to continue the Arms trade.It is confident of hiding its nuke assets which it had produced covertly.
Here Pakistan is going to play the game of spoiler for India and gaining RE HYPHENATION. The full force of international pressure is what Pakistan wants against India.Its game plan is as old as Pakistan/China/US alliance plan which wanted south asia nuclear weapon free zone.
The Pakistan foreign office is likely to ask for the following from the international community( at the prodding of US/China axis)
1.Signing of FMCT/NPT simultaneously by India /Pakistan
2. To declare South asia as nucler weapon free zone.
3.To ask Indo/Pakistan nuclear non/proliferation treaty
4.International inspection of each and every nuclear fascility in Pakistan/India including India's weapon sites
5.Renounce use of nuclear weapons against each other.
Pakistan wants unambiguous and fail safe understanding regarding manufacture and use of Nuclear weapons with India.Actually Pakistan is following the following advice from US non/proliferation lobby.
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2009_07-08/focus
The US Nuclear Ayatollahs as they are called openly say that browns,blacks must not have nukes.Nukes are safe only in the hands of USA which has used it against Japan;In the hands of Russia which recently taught Georgia a lesson in neighbourhood;Ofcourse China which has invaded India,Vietnam and threatening to invade southern Tibet.
The Ayatollahs have found that India's present leadership is amenable to anything which it can demand.They found that it can even pressurise India to buy F18 Hornets(rejected by Brazil as it found that it is no match to SU 30MKII which Venezuela possesses in spite of USA ready to transfer full manufacture and technology.Brazil has found that Hornet is an aged plane with some latest blinkers in cockpit not seen by third world pilots. The new nuclear disarmament regime may have some cosmetic reduction by the BIG TWO to some 1000 warheads each while corresponding abdication by France,UK. The computer controlled weaponsiation is permitted and USA/Russia are comfortable that their new RRW warheads will work.
INDIA should ask for similar deal as the one it got from USA for Pakistan also as this will stump the nuclear Ayatollahs while the Islamic followers in Pakistan who hold the nuke trigger will loose their reason to treat India as the main enemy.USA/CHINA axis will be exposed by this manoeuvre and they have to face the ISLAMIC BOMB along with us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBb3aLAJ3Lc&feature=related
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-41661220090810?sp=true
Why Pakistan is asking for time? Why the delaying tactics? Why suddenly Obama administration backed away from past US objections to potential terms for fissile material inspections? India,Pakistan and North Korea have openly conducted nuke tests.Israel may have an ambiguous programme and it may NOT allow inspections of its CIVIL SITES but still
Obama might have got a deal from Israel which allows the ambiguity to continue.India has got its NSG waiver but then only North Korea and Pakistan are left.North Korea wants a deal which will ensure the continuation of the regime and also allowing it to continue the Arms trade.It is confident of hiding its nuke assets which it had produced covertly.
Here Pakistan is going to play the game of spoiler for India and gaining RE HYPHENATION. The full force of international pressure is what Pakistan wants against India.Its game plan is as old as Pakistan/China/US alliance plan which wanted south asia nuclear weapon free zone.
The Pakistan foreign office is likely to ask for the following from the international community( at the prodding of US/China axis)
1.Signing of FMCT/NPT simultaneously by India /Pakistan
2. To declare South asia as nucler weapon free zone.
3.To ask Indo/Pakistan nuclear non/proliferation treaty
4.International inspection of each and every nuclear fascility in Pakistan/India including India's weapon sites
5.Renounce use of nuclear weapons against each other.
Pakistan wants unambiguous and fail safe understanding regarding manufacture and use of Nuclear weapons with India.Actually Pakistan is following the following advice from US non/proliferation lobby.
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2009_07-08/focus
The US Nuclear Ayatollahs as they are called openly say that browns,blacks must not have nukes.Nukes are safe only in the hands of USA which has used it against Japan;In the hands of Russia which recently taught Georgia a lesson in neighbourhood;Ofcourse China which has invaded India,Vietnam and threatening to invade southern Tibet.
The Ayatollahs have found that India's present leadership is amenable to anything which it can demand.They found that it can even pressurise India to buy F18 Hornets(rejected by Brazil as it found that it is no match to SU 30MKII which Venezuela possesses in spite of USA ready to transfer full manufacture and technology.Brazil has found that Hornet is an aged plane with some latest blinkers in cockpit not seen by third world pilots. The new nuclear disarmament regime may have some cosmetic reduction by the BIG TWO to some 1000 warheads each while corresponding abdication by France,UK. The computer controlled weaponsiation is permitted and USA/Russia are comfortable that their new RRW warheads will work.
INDIA should ask for similar deal as the one it got from USA for Pakistan also as this will stump the nuclear Ayatollahs while the Islamic followers in Pakistan who hold the nuke trigger will loose their reason to treat India as the main enemy.USA/CHINA axis will be exposed by this manoeuvre and they have to face the ISLAMIC BOMB along with us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBb3aLAJ3Lc&feature=related
Sunday, May 31, 2009
INDIAN NUKES/ Their safety
NON PROLIFERATION AGENDA OF OBAMA
The re hyphenation has began. The US media which is a policy arm of that nation has got into the act.The link below shows the policy that they are going to follow
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/27/AR2009052703706.html
Why India should be wary of the new Obama administration? When this new American administration believes that what everything did by Bush is wrong, then we in India have a problem. It believes that Indo/US nuke deal is wrong.It believes democracy promotion by Bush was wrong.By giving dollars to Pakistan this administration believes , it will not only help in defanging Indian nukes as well as Pakistan's. Lot of scare stories are being bandied about Pakistan becoming a failed state etc. The Non resident Pakistanis along with PML(Q) leaders are getting into the act of " we in Pakistan will sign the NPT and remove our nukes if India does the same".They are killing their own citizens and even increasing the body count for the sake of American dollars while the actual Taliban go scot free to Wazirstan.If nearly 20 Lakh people get out of harms way and become IDPs then there is something wrong with the policy of Pakistani government. The very same citizens were living comfortably (with all the so called floggings,burning of schools etc) under whatever dispensation before.Now they are running away from their own army! The lower level ORs are not comfortable about this fight at all just like Lal Masjid operation.
The ruling elite of Pakistan is desperate to keep their nukes but for that they want to raise their own bogeyman which is India.The new administration of Obama is comfortable with this as they are ideologically aligned with Chinese hegemony in the subcontinent.Atlast in the
new UPA government , the US administration have their own men in Majority in the cabinet.But they cannot see how cleverly Musharaff used US aid to gain second strike capability for its nation and Muslim Umma.
India can expect a chorus of articles like the one below from SARAS and other sources with wink from ISI and CIA.
INDIA: NUCLEAR-CHEMICAL-BIOLOGICAL THEFTS OR SMUGGLING
Saman Malik
5/19/2009
The international media remains toujours preoccupied with fears of NCB-material thefts from Pakistan’s installations. There are some feeble voices, like that of US Congressman Ed Markey who, nevertheless, occasionally expresses concern at fragile security of India’s WMD materials and technology. Markey considers that India’s installations are very porous and offer scope for theft, and by corollary, proliferation.
Concern about India is corroborated by her historical record. Let us have a bird’s-eye view of a few incidents. Four containers of phosphorous penta - sulphide were detained by Sri-Lankan authorities at Colombo Port, en-route Bombay to Israel (1994). These containers contained ingredients for manufacture of a deadly nerve gas. In 1989, India publicly confirmed that Yellowcake was being smuggled from Jaduguda Uranium mines in the Singhbhum region of southern Bihar to Nepal. Yellowcakes are manufactured from Uranium powder that could be converted into radiological-dispersal devices, commonly known as dirty bombs. The notorious smuggler, Maheshwar Deo Singh was caught by Indian police and 1.8 kg of Uranium was recovered from his possession in 1989. In the Uranium market of Kathmandu, one kg of Jaduguda Uranium costs Rs 1 crore. On being interrogated, Deo confessed that his network of couriers have been carrying on the `businesss’ for the past several years. He disclosed that a courier gets the minimum of Indian Rs 25,000 for successfully carrying a consignment from Jaduguda to various dumping centres in Bihar and West Bengal. From there the inter-country `dealers’ smuggled Uranium to Katmandu.
In 1990/1991, two shiploads, containing Nuclear Biological and Chemical (NBC) materials from India were on their way to Syria, but the vessels were called back. However, later in 1992, India succeeded to deliver such consignments to Syria. India supplied thiodyglycol and some other chemicals to Iran in 1992. Again in 1993, the United Phosphorous Ltd of India supplied 30 tonnes of trimethyl – phosphate to Iran. During November- December 1993, India made an abortive attempt to ship chemicals to Iraq through Jordan. The shipment embarked from Madras Port. The information about this shipment was received by American Government, which protested to Jordan and the ship was turned back. In 1994, four containers of phosphorous penta – sulphide were detained by Sri-Lankan authorities at Colombo Port, en-route Bombay to Israel. The consignment contained ingredients for manufacturing a deadly nerve gas.
Three persons, with eight kilograms of Uranium were arrested by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation in Tamil Nadu in July 1998. The stolen material contained six kilograms of natural Uranium. The contraband was sent to Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research for analysis. It confirmed that the recovered material contained Uranium 235 and 238. On 31 July 1998, two engineers were arrested by police. They were carrying 2.31 kilograms of Uranium from. From the samples, 1.40 percent and 2.20 percent of enriched uranium was extracted, confirming that the recovered Uranium was neither an ore, nor a depleted compound. Mumbai Police seized 8.3 kilograms of uranium, confirmed by Bhaba Atomic Research Centre to be radioactive, on May 1, 2000.
In 1994, a shipment of beryllium and other material worth over US $ 24 million, useful for making an H-bomb, was caught in Vilnius. This catch confirmed the late 1980s CIA assessment that India was trying to develop a Hydrogen bomb.
Let us quote a few more incidents. An Indian national, Sitaram Rai Mahadevan, having Canadian citizenship and permanently residing in the USA, was arrested in October 2003 for sending blueprints of specialized nuclear valves to North Korea. Twenty-five kilograms of radioactive uranium were recovered from smugglers on November 5, 2000, and fifty-seven pounds of uranium on November 7, 2000. On 13 Nov 2000, three uranium rods were recovered from smugglers, according to an IAEA report. On August 27, 2001 West Bengal police arrested two men with more than 200 grams of semi-processed uranium. Radioactive Cobalt-60 rods were stolen from the Tata Steel factory in Jamshedpur on August 15, 2003. Seven hundred and fifty kilograms of Uranium was stolen during transportation from Jadugora Uranium Mines (Bihar) to Hyderabad in January 1999.
Delhi based M/S NEC Engineers Private Limited shipped 10 consignments of prohibited material, worth $ 791,343, to Iraq between September 1998 and February 2001. The exports included titanium vessels, spherical aluminum powder, titanium centrifugal pumps and industrial cells with platinum anodes that can be used in the manufacture of rocket propellant. Protech Consultant Private Limited supplied NBC-weapons-related material to Iraq as well as Iran. This shipment violated USA-imposed sanctions on NEC Engineers and Protech Consultant Private Limited of India. Taiwanese customs authorities recovered 1,000 tons of Aluminum Oxide from a North Korean container ship in August 2003. The Aluminum Oxide found aboard the ship had been manufactured in India. The substance when mixed with other materials could be used for making shells. Twenty-nine Titanium Alloy Rings, worth Indian Rs 22.50 lakh, used in rocket engine were stolen from the highly-guarded Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre in Bangalore (February 6-12, 2004). Two persons, Khurshid and Aslam, were arrested by Bareilly Police with 254 grams of weapon-grade Uranium.
That‘s not all. Akhtar Hussain Qutbuddin Ahmed, an Indian businessman working in Dubai was deported on 12 June 2004, on charges of trying to sell India’s nuclear secrets to various diplomatic missions. He was accused of offering nuclear secrets which he had acquired from his brother who was working as a senior scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). He was interrogated by police and security agencies for over 40 hours and later handed over to India, on arrival he was arrested at Mumbai airport.
An Indian national Sitaram Rai Mahadevan, having Canadian citizenship and permanently residing in USA, was arrested in October 2003 for allegedly sending blueprints of specialized valves, a critical part for nuclear plants to North Korea. On 30 September 2004, US State Department announced imposition of sanctions against two Indian nuclear scientists; Dr C Surrender and Dr. Y S R Prasad for transferring unconventional weapons and missile technology to Iran.
On 23 March 2007 US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested two Indian citizens Parthasarathy Sudarshan and Mythili Gopal in South Carolina, USA. They were involved in smuggling to India US-made electronic components for use in missile-guidance system.
The above incidents are only tip of the iceberg. Indians even advertised on websites dual-use (nuclear) equipment. It is unfortunate that the world community seldom shifts its focus, away from Pakistan, to India.
The covert arm of CIA can even cause a major/minor explosion or sabotage some Indian reactors so that they can prove that Indian nukes are not safe enough just like Pakistan's.Even they can encourage the ISI to carry out a 26/11 type of operation against one of those coastal reactors. A loss of few thousand Indian lives for the sake of elimination of Indian nukes is a cold blooded option for the new Obama administration about which Indian security establishment must be continuously on guard.
The Pakistanies are telling Obama that
1.We have killed 10,000 fellow Muslim Palestinians in Jordan for the sake of the King Hussein who was your asset.
2.We have trained and sent our Army along with Taliban to fight the Russians which resulted in the destruction of Soviet Union.
3.We have given you access to China through Kissinger.
4.For the sake of one mistake by a section of alquaeda in Afghanistan during 9/11(which a section of our Army believes to be a Jewish operation), the US has allowed the Taliban to be defeated and Northern alliance to take over .
We have paid for that mistake enough and your 15 billion dollars for the recent operation we are doing for you is just peanuts.We want Kashmir and also Siachen and also a regime which is pliable in Afghanistan. We want Heketmayer in place of Karzai if Mullah Omar could not be accommodated. Saudies are with us in these demands as can be seen their connivance in Benazir killing.
Pakistan's greatest gambit is that it will sign the NPT/CBDT once India signs it because Pakistan knows that India will never sign it.Obama is so obsessed with placating Muslim nations that he even bowed before Dictator Saudi King, a thing never done by any President of America.
Bow of Obama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YajKGqXQBdc
The American lobby with its Big business Indian clients has ensured before the election that Ms.Sonia Gandhi will not have an option of selecting the Prime Minister of India. The Nehru/Gandhi family always did have this option from the time of independence. But today it has to succumb to the selection of ManMohan singh who is from Rajya Sabha. The Hindutva forces were actually helping this section of Indian national congress and weakening the hold of Ms.Sonia Gandhi as they feel she is of foreign origin.The patriotism of Indians is mainly according to the faith of the Indians according to them. A myopic view.Now they have started pointing their arrows at Rahul and Priyanka Vadhra by using some obscure citizenship laws.
This American lobby can even use our Defence forces for their ends is well known as they have used them in Pakistan,Middleast,Japan etc etc.Our forces can be subverted in the guise of Seminars and foreign jaunts like any other Indian civil bureaucrat must have opened their eyes during the joint Military exercises.The top brass in any third world country falls for the view "Defense brass must have a say in making of foreign policy of a country" just like in Pakistan,Philipines,Thailand etc etc
Indian civil society must be on guard against various machinations of Hyper powers. It is not only USA but Soviet Union,China,UK,France have a vested interest in not allowing any new entrant into Permanent Five of the Security council as can be seen in their ganging up against North Korea,Iran , Pakistan and India except Israel which has kept its deterrence in ambiguity.The entry pass to P5 is of course are the nukes.
The re hyphenation has began. The US media which is a policy arm of that nation has got into the act.The link below shows the policy that they are going to follow
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/27/AR2009052703706.html
Why India should be wary of the new Obama administration? When this new American administration believes that what everything did by Bush is wrong, then we in India have a problem. It believes that Indo/US nuke deal is wrong.It believes democracy promotion by Bush was wrong.By giving dollars to Pakistan this administration believes , it will not only help in defanging Indian nukes as well as Pakistan's. Lot of scare stories are being bandied about Pakistan becoming a failed state etc. The Non resident Pakistanis along with PML(Q) leaders are getting into the act of " we in Pakistan will sign the NPT and remove our nukes if India does the same".They are killing their own citizens and even increasing the body count for the sake of American dollars while the actual Taliban go scot free to Wazirstan.If nearly 20 Lakh people get out of harms way and become IDPs then there is something wrong with the policy of Pakistani government. The very same citizens were living comfortably (with all the so called floggings,burning of schools etc) under whatever dispensation before.Now they are running away from their own army! The lower level ORs are not comfortable about this fight at all just like Lal Masjid operation.
The ruling elite of Pakistan is desperate to keep their nukes but for that they want to raise their own bogeyman which is India.The new administration of Obama is comfortable with this as they are ideologically aligned with Chinese hegemony in the subcontinent.Atlast in the
new UPA government , the US administration have their own men in Majority in the cabinet.But they cannot see how cleverly Musharaff used US aid to gain second strike capability for its nation and Muslim Umma.
India can expect a chorus of articles like the one below from SARAS and other sources with wink from ISI and CIA.
INDIA: NUCLEAR-CHEMICAL-BIOLOGICAL THEFTS OR SMUGGLING
Saman Malik
5/19/2009
The international media remains toujours preoccupied with fears of NCB-material thefts from Pakistan’s installations. There are some feeble voices, like that of US Congressman Ed Markey who, nevertheless, occasionally expresses concern at fragile security of India’s WMD materials and technology. Markey considers that India’s installations are very porous and offer scope for theft, and by corollary, proliferation.
Concern about India is corroborated by her historical record. Let us have a bird’s-eye view of a few incidents. Four containers of phosphorous penta - sulphide were detained by Sri-Lankan authorities at Colombo Port, en-route Bombay to Israel (1994). These containers contained ingredients for manufacture of a deadly nerve gas. In 1989, India publicly confirmed that Yellowcake was being smuggled from Jaduguda Uranium mines in the Singhbhum region of southern Bihar to Nepal. Yellowcakes are manufactured from Uranium powder that could be converted into radiological-dispersal devices, commonly known as dirty bombs. The notorious smuggler, Maheshwar Deo Singh was caught by Indian police and 1.8 kg of Uranium was recovered from his possession in 1989. In the Uranium market of Kathmandu, one kg of Jaduguda Uranium costs Rs 1 crore. On being interrogated, Deo confessed that his network of couriers have been carrying on the `businesss’ for the past several years. He disclosed that a courier gets the minimum of Indian Rs 25,000 for successfully carrying a consignment from Jaduguda to various dumping centres in Bihar and West Bengal. From there the inter-country `dealers’ smuggled Uranium to Katmandu.
In 1990/1991, two shiploads, containing Nuclear Biological and Chemical (NBC) materials from India were on their way to Syria, but the vessels were called back. However, later in 1992, India succeeded to deliver such consignments to Syria. India supplied thiodyglycol and some other chemicals to Iran in 1992. Again in 1993, the United Phosphorous Ltd of India supplied 30 tonnes of trimethyl – phosphate to Iran. During November- December 1993, India made an abortive attempt to ship chemicals to Iraq through Jordan. The shipment embarked from Madras Port. The information about this shipment was received by American Government, which protested to Jordan and the ship was turned back. In 1994, four containers of phosphorous penta – sulphide were detained by Sri-Lankan authorities at Colombo Port, en-route Bombay to Israel. The consignment contained ingredients for manufacturing a deadly nerve gas.
Three persons, with eight kilograms of Uranium were arrested by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation in Tamil Nadu in July 1998. The stolen material contained six kilograms of natural Uranium. The contraband was sent to Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research for analysis. It confirmed that the recovered material contained Uranium 235 and 238. On 31 July 1998, two engineers were arrested by police. They were carrying 2.31 kilograms of Uranium from. From the samples, 1.40 percent and 2.20 percent of enriched uranium was extracted, confirming that the recovered Uranium was neither an ore, nor a depleted compound. Mumbai Police seized 8.3 kilograms of uranium, confirmed by Bhaba Atomic Research Centre to be radioactive, on May 1, 2000.
In 1994, a shipment of beryllium and other material worth over US $ 24 million, useful for making an H-bomb, was caught in Vilnius. This catch confirmed the late 1980s CIA assessment that India was trying to develop a Hydrogen bomb.
Let us quote a few more incidents. An Indian national, Sitaram Rai Mahadevan, having Canadian citizenship and permanently residing in the USA, was arrested in October 2003 for sending blueprints of specialized nuclear valves to North Korea. Twenty-five kilograms of radioactive uranium were recovered from smugglers on November 5, 2000, and fifty-seven pounds of uranium on November 7, 2000. On 13 Nov 2000, three uranium rods were recovered from smugglers, according to an IAEA report. On August 27, 2001 West Bengal police arrested two men with more than 200 grams of semi-processed uranium. Radioactive Cobalt-60 rods were stolen from the Tata Steel factory in Jamshedpur on August 15, 2003. Seven hundred and fifty kilograms of Uranium was stolen during transportation from Jadugora Uranium Mines (Bihar) to Hyderabad in January 1999.
Delhi based M/S NEC Engineers Private Limited shipped 10 consignments of prohibited material, worth $ 791,343, to Iraq between September 1998 and February 2001. The exports included titanium vessels, spherical aluminum powder, titanium centrifugal pumps and industrial cells with platinum anodes that can be used in the manufacture of rocket propellant. Protech Consultant Private Limited supplied NBC-weapons-related material to Iraq as well as Iran. This shipment violated USA-imposed sanctions on NEC Engineers and Protech Consultant Private Limited of India. Taiwanese customs authorities recovered 1,000 tons of Aluminum Oxide from a North Korean container ship in August 2003. The Aluminum Oxide found aboard the ship had been manufactured in India. The substance when mixed with other materials could be used for making shells. Twenty-nine Titanium Alloy Rings, worth Indian Rs 22.50 lakh, used in rocket engine were stolen from the highly-guarded Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre in Bangalore (February 6-12, 2004). Two persons, Khurshid and Aslam, were arrested by Bareilly Police with 254 grams of weapon-grade Uranium.
That‘s not all. Akhtar Hussain Qutbuddin Ahmed, an Indian businessman working in Dubai was deported on 12 June 2004, on charges of trying to sell India’s nuclear secrets to various diplomatic missions. He was accused of offering nuclear secrets which he had acquired from his brother who was working as a senior scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). He was interrogated by police and security agencies for over 40 hours and later handed over to India, on arrival he was arrested at Mumbai airport.
An Indian national Sitaram Rai Mahadevan, having Canadian citizenship and permanently residing in USA, was arrested in October 2003 for allegedly sending blueprints of specialized valves, a critical part for nuclear plants to North Korea. On 30 September 2004, US State Department announced imposition of sanctions against two Indian nuclear scientists; Dr C Surrender and Dr. Y S R Prasad for transferring unconventional weapons and missile technology to Iran.
On 23 March 2007 US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested two Indian citizens Parthasarathy Sudarshan and Mythili Gopal in South Carolina, USA. They were involved in smuggling to India US-made electronic components for use in missile-guidance system.
The above incidents are only tip of the iceberg. Indians even advertised on websites dual-use (nuclear) equipment. It is unfortunate that the world community seldom shifts its focus, away from Pakistan, to India.
The covert arm of CIA can even cause a major/minor explosion or sabotage some Indian reactors so that they can prove that Indian nukes are not safe enough just like Pakistan's.Even they can encourage the ISI to carry out a 26/11 type of operation against one of those coastal reactors. A loss of few thousand Indian lives for the sake of elimination of Indian nukes is a cold blooded option for the new Obama administration about which Indian security establishment must be continuously on guard.
The Pakistanies are telling Obama that
1.We have killed 10,000 fellow Muslim Palestinians in Jordan for the sake of the King Hussein who was your asset.
2.We have trained and sent our Army along with Taliban to fight the Russians which resulted in the destruction of Soviet Union.
3.We have given you access to China through Kissinger.
4.For the sake of one mistake by a section of alquaeda in Afghanistan during 9/11(which a section of our Army believes to be a Jewish operation), the US has allowed the Taliban to be defeated and Northern alliance to take over .
We have paid for that mistake enough and your 15 billion dollars for the recent operation we are doing for you is just peanuts.We want Kashmir and also Siachen and also a regime which is pliable in Afghanistan. We want Heketmayer in place of Karzai if Mullah Omar could not be accommodated. Saudies are with us in these demands as can be seen their connivance in Benazir killing.
Pakistan's greatest gambit is that it will sign the NPT/CBDT once India signs it because Pakistan knows that India will never sign it.Obama is so obsessed with placating Muslim nations that he even bowed before Dictator Saudi King, a thing never done by any President of America.
Bow of Obama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YajKGqXQBdc
The American lobby with its Big business Indian clients has ensured before the election that Ms.Sonia Gandhi will not have an option of selecting the Prime Minister of India. The Nehru/Gandhi family always did have this option from the time of independence. But today it has to succumb to the selection of ManMohan singh who is from Rajya Sabha. The Hindutva forces were actually helping this section of Indian national congress and weakening the hold of Ms.Sonia Gandhi as they feel she is of foreign origin.The patriotism of Indians is mainly according to the faith of the Indians according to them. A myopic view.Now they have started pointing their arrows at Rahul and Priyanka Vadhra by using some obscure citizenship laws.
This American lobby can even use our Defence forces for their ends is well known as they have used them in Pakistan,Middleast,Japan etc etc.Our forces can be subverted in the guise of Seminars and foreign jaunts like any other Indian civil bureaucrat must have opened their eyes during the joint Military exercises.The top brass in any third world country falls for the view "Defense brass must have a say in making of foreign policy of a country" just like in Pakistan,Philipines,Thailand etc etc
Indian civil society must be on guard against various machinations of Hyper powers. It is not only USA but Soviet Union,China,UK,France have a vested interest in not allowing any new entrant into Permanent Five of the Security council as can be seen in their ganging up against North Korea,Iran , Pakistan and India except Israel which has kept its deterrence in ambiguity.The entry pass to P5 is of course are the nukes.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
HOME MINISTER , SIR
HOME MINISTER SIR!!!
Your predecessor has paid his price for his inefficiency as also the Chief Minister of Maharashtra and his Deputy from NCP.Now you are kicked upstairs from Finance to Home though unwillingly. The NSG commandos and some Maharashtra constables have paid with their lives and wounds.But as a former Union Minister of personnel, you know how the bureaucracy functions.Does the BABUDOM IN YOUR MINISTRY has paid any price? I mean the secretary,Addl Secretary etc for their inefficient advise to your predecessor?
I heard your speech at the Lok Sabha while introducing the new bills and i found that the BABUDOM is taking you through the same beaten path. Why the name of TUKARAM OMBLE of DB marg police station(Mumbai) was missing from your reference when you mentioned names of Major Unnikrishnan of NSG and Mr.Karkare and others of Mumbai ATS?A chain mail is doing the round asking one simple question. If you shoot Gold at Olympics one will get 3 crores(He owns his own hi tech shooting range costing 2 crores inside his house!!) while if you get a bullet from Terrorist you get only 25 Lakhs(meaning widow of Mr.Karkare), and i add to that if one captures a terrorist ALIVE while taking 30 bullets on your body and also give your life for your colleagues and country you get ONLY 5LAKHS!! and then forward that mail.Here a lowly Maratha constable, a real man who is fit for Ashoka chakra class I and i hope you will not fail unless of course Raj Thackeray has to intervene on his behalf. We pay more to Rail accident victims than the constables who die in J&K,NORTHEAST,MANIPUR, and various other NAXAL INFESTED STATES.
Again i could see the hand of BABUDOM in the hurry with which 3 IL 76 planes are sanctioned for ARC, a veritable Kargil Coffin scam making use of the delay in launch of plane from Chandigarh. Are there enough pilots to fly the existing IL76 planes in ARC? Why AN 32 could not be launched immediately from Delhi or even a civil aircraft of Indian/Jet air etc accommodated the NSG commandos? With decentralization of NSG deployment , what was the need for IL76 especially three? The real need is that of helicopters at the new places of deployment as we manufacture them at HAL and also light bullet proof vests, night vision goggles (not the DRDO ones)which can really be used at night,light communication equipment,Kevlar coated uniform(the terrorists used phosphorous bombs) and many more standard dress for constables who face terrorists.
The raising of COBRA force of 1000 and equipping them to tackle naxalites is another bungle of BABUDOM. If they have to fight naxalites wearing bullet proof vests (which are so heavy that none wear them) or helmets which are so uncomfortable (again none wear them), then as Home Minister i hope you will look into this aspect of sanctioning of only 10 light special helmets for a force of 1000 !!(due to heavy costs of imports) but sanctioning 3aircrafts which can equip 1 lakh helmets!!!It is here i hope you will show your authority instead of being led on the garden path by BABUDOM OF IAS who get promotion for sacrificing their political masters!!!
a)ADDRESS PROOF b)IDENTITY PROOF are the two items which are required to be provided by everyone to get
1.Ration card (State Revenue office)
2.Driving license (State transport office)
3.SIM card (Private and public sector companies)
4.Voter identity card (state Revenue office)
5.Electricity bill in your name (State electricity and revenue office)
6.Katha of house in your name (state revenue office)
7.PAN card (Central Income tax office)
8.KYC letter for investing (investment companies)
9.passport issue and verification ( Central ministry of External affairs while verification is done by State police)
10.Bank account opening (bank managers on basis of the TWO items) and i do not know what other places these TWO ITEMS are required. But SIM CARDS, DRIVING LICENSE,PASSPORT etc are vital security related items. I do not want to get into the petty corruption involved in issue of these TWO ITEMS. A terrorist or enemy agent always makes use of the petty corruption to skip the Q and get the documents while genuine citizens suffer the corruption.Tiger Memon and his family got their passports issued in 4 hours flat(their files are still missing in External affairs ministry i understand). The problem comes as the issue of these documents are thought of as PREVENTION OF TERRORIST OFFENSES instead of DOCUMENTS WHICH WILL HELP IN INVESTIGATION. I am retired central government employee with Identity card issued by my department the cabinet secretariat.But address proof is required when i change residence from State Government revenue office which requires Katha transfer which is a major corruption item in every state. For renewal of my Driving license and also for passport verification i have to indulge in petty corruption for getting things done as katha transfer rate in Karnataka is rupees 30,000/ a big amount for a pensioner-But for voter PIC i have not bothered to do it because again due to Election Commission not following its own rules in changing old PIC to a new address. It SHOULD BE CHEAPER FOR OUR NATION TO HAVE UNIVERSAL IDENTITY CARD FOR EVERY CITIZEN WITH FINGER PRINTS AND IRIS IDENTIFICATION ALONG WITH PHOTOGRAPHS IN BOTH FRONT AND SIDE VIEW INSTEAD OF 3 IL 76 PLANES.My household helper has come from a neighboring village in tamilnadu and she wants to have a Mobile SIM but cannot get it in her name as her ration card is in her village address.This issue should be your priority and not sanctioning IL 76s if you do not want to go in the way of Mr.Shivraj patil who followed the BABUDOM.
TERRORISTS IN PRISON: When the Mumbai attack happened there was this chorus for POLICE REFORM which actually means is FREE my own POLICE BABUDOM from IAS BABUDOM. Sir, I want to ask you about TERRORISTS especially SUICIDE BOMBERS who are convicted and sentenced to death etc and placed in Prisons.They do not became saints in jail nor can they be reformed like ordinary criminals. THEY CONTINUE TO BE RUTHLESS KILLERS IN JAIL AS THEY WERE OUTSIDE WITHOUT ANY HUMANNESS. In Guantanamo Bay Khalid Shiekh has become Amir of jailed Terrorists and their endeavour is to escape or kill the jail staff by any method.Whether it is Afzal Guru or Bombay blast convicts, Coimbatore suicide bombers, Anjumann church bomb convicts etc, they continue to TERRORISE the jail staff, use petty corruption in jail or even kill as it happened in Coimbatore jail. We give bullet proof vests, AK47s to our commandos but what happens to prison staff? Normally the Prison is headed by a discarded mainline police officer who follows the petty BABUDOM OF PRISON ADMINISTRATION without any interest in jail administration or human rights of its inmates.
You will see that almost all the work of SECURITY INVOLVES THE STATES. One can say easily as the previous Home minister used to do that statistically there are less terrorist incidents than duringNDA regime, or how increased funding has gone to state police for modernisation of police etc. But one big sound and light show(as your congress media head said) just before next election will seal the fate ofUPA and may be even see its disintegration.
FIRE SERVICE personnel.Though they are state government employees,hope you will look into their uniform(whether it is Kevlar coated), whether they have also bullet proof vests and light helmets.
DEAR HOME MINISTER SIR it is your take to make an honest effort in giving Indian citizens SECURITY. It is here i hope you will think of giving pistols or other light arms to retired ARMY ,CRPF,BSF ETC ETC JAWANS who can act as first line of security when any high rise building / civilian targets like railway stations,hospitals, bazars are attacked.
Your predecessor has paid his price for his inefficiency as also the Chief Minister of Maharashtra and his Deputy from NCP.Now you are kicked upstairs from Finance to Home though unwillingly. The NSG commandos and some Maharashtra constables have paid with their lives and wounds.But as a former Union Minister of personnel, you know how the bureaucracy functions.Does the BABUDOM IN YOUR MINISTRY has paid any price? I mean the secretary,Addl Secretary etc for their inefficient advise to your predecessor?
I heard your speech at the Lok Sabha while introducing the new bills and i found that the BABUDOM is taking you through the same beaten path. Why the name of TUKARAM OMBLE of DB marg police station(Mumbai) was missing from your reference when you mentioned names of Major Unnikrishnan of NSG and Mr.Karkare and others of Mumbai ATS?A chain mail is doing the round asking one simple question. If you shoot Gold at Olympics one will get 3 crores(He owns his own hi tech shooting range costing 2 crores inside his house!!) while if you get a bullet from Terrorist you get only 25 Lakhs(meaning widow of Mr.Karkare), and i add to that if one captures a terrorist ALIVE while taking 30 bullets on your body and also give your life for your colleagues and country you get ONLY 5LAKHS!! and then forward that mail.Here a lowly Maratha constable, a real man who is fit for Ashoka chakra class I and i hope you will not fail unless of course Raj Thackeray has to intervene on his behalf. We pay more to Rail accident victims than the constables who die in J&K,NORTHEAST,MANIPUR, and various other NAXAL INFESTED STATES.
Again i could see the hand of BABUDOM in the hurry with which 3 IL 76 planes are sanctioned for ARC, a veritable Kargil Coffin scam making use of the delay in launch of plane from Chandigarh. Are there enough pilots to fly the existing IL76 planes in ARC? Why AN 32 could not be launched immediately from Delhi or even a civil aircraft of Indian/Jet air etc accommodated the NSG commandos? With decentralization of NSG deployment , what was the need for IL76 especially three? The real need is that of helicopters at the new places of deployment as we manufacture them at HAL and also light bullet proof vests, night vision goggles (not the DRDO ones)which can really be used at night,light communication equipment,Kevlar coated uniform(the terrorists used phosphorous bombs) and many more standard dress for constables who face terrorists.
The raising of COBRA force of 1000 and equipping them to tackle naxalites is another bungle of BABUDOM. If they have to fight naxalites wearing bullet proof vests (which are so heavy that none wear them) or helmets which are so uncomfortable (again none wear them), then as Home Minister i hope you will look into this aspect of sanctioning of only 10 light special helmets for a force of 1000 !!(due to heavy costs of imports) but sanctioning 3aircrafts which can equip 1 lakh helmets!!!It is here i hope you will show your authority instead of being led on the garden path by BABUDOM OF IAS who get promotion for sacrificing their political masters!!!
a)ADDRESS PROOF b)IDENTITY PROOF are the two items which are required to be provided by everyone to get
1.Ration card (State Revenue office)
2.Driving license (State transport office)
3.SIM card (Private and public sector companies)
4.Voter identity card (state Revenue office)
5.Electricity bill in your name (State electricity and revenue office)
6.Katha of house in your name (state revenue office)
7.PAN card (Central Income tax office)
8.KYC letter for investing (investment companies)
9.passport issue and verification ( Central ministry of External affairs while verification is done by State police)
10.Bank account opening (bank managers on basis of the TWO items) and i do not know what other places these TWO ITEMS are required. But SIM CARDS, DRIVING LICENSE,PASSPORT etc are vital security related items. I do not want to get into the petty corruption involved in issue of these TWO ITEMS. A terrorist or enemy agent always makes use of the petty corruption to skip the Q and get the documents while genuine citizens suffer the corruption.Tiger Memon and his family got their passports issued in 4 hours flat(their files are still missing in External affairs ministry i understand). The problem comes as the issue of these documents are thought of as PREVENTION OF TERRORIST OFFENSES instead of DOCUMENTS WHICH WILL HELP IN INVESTIGATION. I am retired central government employee with Identity card issued by my department the cabinet secretariat.But address proof is required when i change residence from State Government revenue office which requires Katha transfer which is a major corruption item in every state. For renewal of my Driving license and also for passport verification i have to indulge in petty corruption for getting things done as katha transfer rate in Karnataka is rupees 30,000/ a big amount for a pensioner-But for voter PIC i have not bothered to do it because again due to Election Commission not following its own rules in changing old PIC to a new address. It SHOULD BE CHEAPER FOR OUR NATION TO HAVE UNIVERSAL IDENTITY CARD FOR EVERY CITIZEN WITH FINGER PRINTS AND IRIS IDENTIFICATION ALONG WITH PHOTOGRAPHS IN BOTH FRONT AND SIDE VIEW INSTEAD OF 3 IL 76 PLANES.My household helper has come from a neighboring village in tamilnadu and she wants to have a Mobile SIM but cannot get it in her name as her ration card is in her village address.This issue should be your priority and not sanctioning IL 76s if you do not want to go in the way of Mr.Shivraj patil who followed the BABUDOM.
TERRORISTS IN PRISON: When the Mumbai attack happened there was this chorus for POLICE REFORM which actually means is FREE my own POLICE BABUDOM from IAS BABUDOM. Sir, I want to ask you about TERRORISTS especially SUICIDE BOMBERS who are convicted and sentenced to death etc and placed in Prisons.They do not became saints in jail nor can they be reformed like ordinary criminals. THEY CONTINUE TO BE RUTHLESS KILLERS IN JAIL AS THEY WERE OUTSIDE WITHOUT ANY HUMANNESS. In Guantanamo Bay Khalid Shiekh has become Amir of jailed Terrorists and their endeavour is to escape or kill the jail staff by any method.Whether it is Afzal Guru or Bombay blast convicts, Coimbatore suicide bombers, Anjumann church bomb convicts etc, they continue to TERRORISE the jail staff, use petty corruption in jail or even kill as it happened in Coimbatore jail. We give bullet proof vests, AK47s to our commandos but what happens to prison staff? Normally the Prison is headed by a discarded mainline police officer who follows the petty BABUDOM OF PRISON ADMINISTRATION without any interest in jail administration or human rights of its inmates.
You will see that almost all the work of SECURITY INVOLVES THE STATES. One can say easily as the previous Home minister used to do that statistically there are less terrorist incidents than duringNDA regime, or how increased funding has gone to state police for modernisation of police etc. But one big sound and light show(as your congress media head said) just before next election will seal the fate ofUPA and may be even see its disintegration.
FIRE SERVICE personnel.Though they are state government employees,hope you will look into their uniform(whether it is Kevlar coated), whether they have also bullet proof vests and light helmets.
DEAR HOME MINISTER SIR it is your take to make an honest effort in giving Indian citizens SECURITY. It is here i hope you will think of giving pistols or other light arms to retired ARMY ,CRPF,BSF ETC ETC JAWANS who can act as first line of security when any high rise building / civilian targets like railway stations,hospitals, bazars are attacked.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Exclusion of India from East Asia deliberations.
The North Korean nuclear problem is essentially an east Asian problem. But why Russia is part of the six party talks while India is not part of the nations which are discussing and solving the problem. The nuclear armed North korea is a rogue nation according to western pandits because it
1. counter feits dollars
2. Sells missiles and missile technology to nations like Pakistan, Myanmar and african nations.
3. Kidnapped japanese and south koreans for intelligence operations(during cold war)
4. essentially a dictatorship ruled by a meghanolophic person who is unpredictable.
5. Its people do not have anything to eat and suffers from famine and lack human rights.
Its actions does not essentially affect indias security unless it sells missile technology to pakistan. But is this contention true? If american pundits are to be believed North korea is a vassal state of china and then why should it sell missiles to Pakistan which is closely aligned with China itself. Why cannot Pakistan buy them from china itself? If North is selling Missiles denied by china ;then North korea is not a vassal state of china. North Korea sells weapons and missiles for its own survival and China in my opinion DISAPPROVES OF THEM. ACTUALLY an independent thinking North which is likely to merge with south will form a credible detterent power and China is vary of it. It is china which was more interested in defanging North more than Japan itself. The conventional army of North Korea is a solid force and well trained. i think it is in Indias interest to maintain a close relationship with the North. American tend to do things for the short range interest and fail to look at unified Korea in the long run. We should have supported North,s quest for independent nuclear detterence and everyone would have noticed.The following report by Armitage just gives LIP SUPPORT TO EMERGING INDIA while actually respecting EMERGING CHINA.
ARMITAGE/NYE REPORT a view from Beijing.
The US Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recently released a new report entitled, "The US-Japan Alliance: Getting Asia Right through 2020". The primary authors of the report are Richard L. Armitage and Joseph S. Nye. Like the "The United States and Japan: Advancing Toward a Mature Partnership", a report issued by Ambassador Armitage and Dr. Nye in 2000, this report continues to emphasize the importance of the US-Japan alliance and the role of Japan in the US' Asia strategy. Unlike the first report, however, which was directed specifically at correcting the Clinton's Administration's tendency to neglect Japan and strengthening the bilateral relationship between the two countries, the new report also addresses ways in which the alliance could have a positive influence on the future of Asia.
Half of the new report is centered on Asia until 2020. It predicts what the major Asian powers
(China, India, Korea and Russia) will look like in 2020, and touches on changes in the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asia, as well as the regional integration progress. The authors say that US foreign policy in recent years has been characterized by an increasing willingness to welcome emerging powers, particularly China and India, into world leadership roles. Rarely do Armitage and Nye bring India into the strategic balance in East Asia. They suggest the United States and Japan improve their strategic relationship with India, thus promoting India's strategic status in the US' Asia policy.
The new report focuses on "the evolving structure of East Asian international relations" and dealing with the rise of China. Like the authors of the "US Quadrennial Defense Review Report" and the "National Security Strategy Report" released in 2006, Armitage and Nye are "uncertain" about the direction of China's development, suggesting that China will either become a "responsible stakeholder" or a threat to its neighboring countries. Nevertheless, the report recognizes the strategic importance of China and finds that the United States and Japan are the countries most affected by the direction of China's development. "Stability in East Asia will rest on a triangle of US-Japan-China relations," the report's authors argued. Although the United States is closely allied with Japan, Washington should "encourage good relations among all three."
With regard to dealing with the rise of China, the report finds that "a bipolar structure with only the United States and Japan facing China would be ineffective", and repeatedly calls on the US to strengthen its ties with Japan to cope with China. In recent years, the two countries have cooperated on many issues involving China, such as asking the Chinese government to improve the transparency of its military operations and opposing the lifting of a European arms embargo. Such practices will only increase mistrust between China and, Japan and the US and is not conducive to the promotion of "friendly and cooperative relations."
Armitage continues to regard the strengthening of the US-Japan alliance as essential to "shaping the future of Asia." It calls for a focus on Asia and expresses concern about China's expanding influence in the region, which may "gradually weaken" the influence of the United States. The authors encourage Japan to play a greater political and security role in Asia and recommend that the US allows Japan to become the "Britain of the Far East." They place the burden of hope on Japan, urging it to loosen "self-restraint" in military and security, become more flexible when it comes to sending troops overseas, and increase investment in arms. They also support Japan's bid to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
The report's emphasis on the US-Japan relationship reflects the US' "pro-Japan and anti-China" policy. The authors regard Japan as a country of "global impact" and are worried that the US has not paid enough attention to Japan. They do not want Sino-US relations to be stronger than US-Japan relations. In spite of some positive suggestions, the report is still largely ideological and continues to promote the US' position in East Asia, based on the US-Japan alliance.
By People's Daily Online; The author, Sun Ru, is associate research fellow with the Institute of American Studies under the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations
The North Korean nuclear problem is essentially an east Asian problem. But why Russia is part of the six party talks while India is not part of the nations which are discussing and solving the problem. The nuclear armed North korea is a rogue nation according to western pandits because it
1. counter feits dollars
2. Sells missiles and missile technology to nations like Pakistan, Myanmar and african nations.
3. Kidnapped japanese and south koreans for intelligence operations(during cold war)
4. essentially a dictatorship ruled by a meghanolophic person who is unpredictable.
5. Its people do not have anything to eat and suffers from famine and lack human rights.
Its actions does not essentially affect indias security unless it sells missile technology to pakistan. But is this contention true? If american pundits are to be believed North korea is a vassal state of china and then why should it sell missiles to Pakistan which is closely aligned with China itself. Why cannot Pakistan buy them from china itself? If North is selling Missiles denied by china ;then North korea is not a vassal state of china. North Korea sells weapons and missiles for its own survival and China in my opinion DISAPPROVES OF THEM. ACTUALLY an independent thinking North which is likely to merge with south will form a credible detterent power and China is vary of it. It is china which was more interested in defanging North more than Japan itself. The conventional army of North Korea is a solid force and well trained. i think it is in Indias interest to maintain a close relationship with the North. American tend to do things for the short range interest and fail to look at unified Korea in the long run. We should have supported North,s quest for independent nuclear detterence and everyone would have noticed.The following report by Armitage just gives LIP SUPPORT TO EMERGING INDIA while actually respecting EMERGING CHINA.
ARMITAGE/NYE REPORT a view from Beijing.
The US Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recently released a new report entitled, "The US-Japan Alliance: Getting Asia Right through 2020". The primary authors of the report are Richard L. Armitage and Joseph S. Nye. Like the "The United States and Japan: Advancing Toward a Mature Partnership", a report issued by Ambassador Armitage and Dr. Nye in 2000, this report continues to emphasize the importance of the US-Japan alliance and the role of Japan in the US' Asia strategy. Unlike the first report, however, which was directed specifically at correcting the Clinton's Administration's tendency to neglect Japan and strengthening the bilateral relationship between the two countries, the new report also addresses ways in which the alliance could have a positive influence on the future of Asia.
Half of the new report is centered on Asia until 2020. It predicts what the major Asian powers
(China, India, Korea and Russia) will look like in 2020, and touches on changes in the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asia, as well as the regional integration progress. The authors say that US foreign policy in recent years has been characterized by an increasing willingness to welcome emerging powers, particularly China and India, into world leadership roles. Rarely do Armitage and Nye bring India into the strategic balance in East Asia. They suggest the United States and Japan improve their strategic relationship with India, thus promoting India's strategic status in the US' Asia policy.
The new report focuses on "the evolving structure of East Asian international relations" and dealing with the rise of China. Like the authors of the "US Quadrennial Defense Review Report" and the "National Security Strategy Report" released in 2006, Armitage and Nye are "uncertain" about the direction of China's development, suggesting that China will either become a "responsible stakeholder" or a threat to its neighboring countries. Nevertheless, the report recognizes the strategic importance of China and finds that the United States and Japan are the countries most affected by the direction of China's development. "Stability in East Asia will rest on a triangle of US-Japan-China relations," the report's authors argued. Although the United States is closely allied with Japan, Washington should "encourage good relations among all three."
With regard to dealing with the rise of China, the report finds that "a bipolar structure with only the United States and Japan facing China would be ineffective", and repeatedly calls on the US to strengthen its ties with Japan to cope with China. In recent years, the two countries have cooperated on many issues involving China, such as asking the Chinese government to improve the transparency of its military operations and opposing the lifting of a European arms embargo. Such practices will only increase mistrust between China and, Japan and the US and is not conducive to the promotion of "friendly and cooperative relations."
Armitage continues to regard the strengthening of the US-Japan alliance as essential to "shaping the future of Asia." It calls for a focus on Asia and expresses concern about China's expanding influence in the region, which may "gradually weaken" the influence of the United States. The authors encourage Japan to play a greater political and security role in Asia and recommend that the US allows Japan to become the "Britain of the Far East." They place the burden of hope on Japan, urging it to loosen "self-restraint" in military and security, become more flexible when it comes to sending troops overseas, and increase investment in arms. They also support Japan's bid to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
The report's emphasis on the US-Japan relationship reflects the US' "pro-Japan and anti-China" policy. The authors regard Japan as a country of "global impact" and are worried that the US has not paid enough attention to Japan. They do not want Sino-US relations to be stronger than US-Japan relations. In spite of some positive suggestions, the report is still largely ideological and continues to promote the US' position in East Asia, based on the US-Japan alliance.
By People's Daily Online; The author, Sun Ru, is associate research fellow with the Institute of American Studies under the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations
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