Now wait for a flurry of articles on how courts have been compromised, democracy is being throttled, minorities are oppressed....leading the charge will be Wire, then Scroll and their foreign cousins WaPo & NYT. And more Faiz and Rahat Indori quotes. #ShaheenBagh
- On a serious note, #ShaheenBagh was the 'democratic' version of chakka-jam which Sharjeel Imam was advocating, especially in strategically sensitive zones like Siliguri corridor.
- #ShaheenBagh was a pretty clever and well thought out strategy.
- With women and children as +
+ supposedly the face of this 'protest', any government action to forcibly evict them would've been a massive PR disaster.
- But on the other hand, if you allowed it to be replicated across the country, you'll have serious undermining of state & central authority.
- Like +
+ east Delhi, the cover of these 'protests' can be used to trigger riots and strife.
- In short, perfect recipe for fomenting trouble on a mass scale.
- Silver lining of #ShaheenBagh is that the longer it stretched, the more aware common public became about their intransigence+
+ and the underlying Islamist agenda.
- Both the protestors and their handlers stand thoroughly discredited.
- Their experiment with creating communal riots in NE Delhi will actually land many of them in jail for quite some time.
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[When I drove an Arjun tank]
- One of the benefits of growing-up in Services environment is that you get to see the equipment up and close.
- It so happened that in early to mid-90s, my father was posted to Mamun Cantt, on eastern periphery of Pathankot.
- Now, Mamun Cantt is +
+ 'tank town'. It has a huge presence of armor or tanks.
- There are two Independent Armored Brigades here (written as (I) Armd Bde) amounting to six armored regiments or ~300 tanks!!!
- We would regularly see tanks going from Point A to Point B within the cantt.
- Sometimes on +
+ trailers (like in image below), sometimes on their own power.
- A friend and I almost had the distinction of head-on collision with a tank and almost getting crushed by it when it suddenly appeared in front of us.
- But that's a separate story.
+
- This is what this white-man does not get. But I'm sure local Amnesty chaps do.
- Amnesty has been questioned basis law of the land. Not someone's whims & fancies.
- It can go to court. But they've done financial hanky-panky and best of luck explaining away that in the court.
Read the press release by MHA on the case. Imp points-
- Amnesty UK sent money to India disguised as FDI!
- They also violated FCRA regulations
- This whole exercise was malafide
- They've tried to indulge in domestic political debates.
Enough said! pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIf…
- Many shady org like Amnesty have been operating in India w/o proper approvals for decades.
- Because they weren't questioned before, many in civil society believe that everything was over the board.
- And now that they're being questioned, it is being portrayed as a witch-hunt
Bhagat Singh's political outlook was fashioned by realities of that period. Had he been alive, he would've opposed Gandhi & Nehru agreeing to partition, Nehru's screw-up in Kashmir & China, and would've definitely kicked communist leadership for supporting China against India.
It is sacrilege to even think that a person who smilingly went to his death for his motherland would stand next to today's communists like Sitaram Yechury or Kanahiya Kumar or Congress shit-heads or current breed of left-loony liberal brigade.
Here is a brilliant thread by @sanjeevsanyal on Bhagat Singh, Communism and communists.
@FrankBullit67 Bit of a long read but bear with me - 1. Using various XYZ agreements with us, Chinese have managed to get away with minimal troop commitment on India-Tibet border. 2. Simple comparison - Between Eastern Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh, India has deployment of 12+ divisions worth +
@FrankBullit67 + of troops. 3. Some are forward deployed while others are in rear but at a short-distance from the forward sector. 4. What is the Chinese deployment? Well, along the same border, not more than two divisions worth of troops, and this includes Border Defense Regiments, a rough+
@FrankBullit67 + equivalent of our ITBP but more militarized. 5. Why does China feel confident of getting away with such minimal deployment? 6. Because it knows India will never fire the first shot in anger. Any hostilities will be started by the Chinese. 7. But in spite of such minimal +
- ATAGS barrel bursts during trials & immediately, we've anonymous officials questioning the barrel metallurgy.
- No discussion about faulty ammo or fuse.
- Of course, it is a mere coincidence that import of 155/52mm guns was put on hold because of ATAGS. economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/i…
This TOI Report says that -
"shells burst within the barrel, damaging the gun"
This is vastly different from what ET said about defect in metallurgy. Remember, Dhanush also had same barrel burst issue. Nothing which cannot be rectified. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/78…
This report has probable cause @ramana_brf
- Zone 7 charge used to attain 40+ km range.
- Use of higher charge can impact the movement of shell within the barrel.
- Report says Zone 6 charge is safe limit but ATAGS has fired 000s of rounds with Zone 7. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/ar…
- Feedback from VT-4 trials in Pakistan was less than satisfactory but then, Pakistan Army does not have options
- 6th Armored Div under I Corps is equipped with obsolete Al-Zarrar tanks
- Production & upgrade of Al-Khalid is patchy
- This also raised questions about is quality
Going by the pictures shared by DGISPR, the trial unit is 6 Lancers. 6 Lancers was one of the British Indian Army armored regiments allotted to Pakistan in 1947 and was then known as 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers. Renamed to 6 Lancers in 1956.
During 1965 war, 6 Lancers took part in Battle of Asal Uttar as part of 5 Armored Brigade. It Commanding Officer was killed on 9th September 1965 and the regiment suffered very heavy losses at the hands of Indian 3rd Cavalry Regiment.