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The influence of Indian army over its government
July 29th, 2013 | 
Author: My old comments on a TOI news of 21 September, 2012 and latest observations of a senior US army general about the influence of the Indian army over its government.
Greatness of a general doesn’t lie in waging and winning a war. Rather, in avoiding the war.
Indian Army chief opposes PM’s trip to Pak (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Army-chief-opposes-PMs-trip-to-Pak/articleshow/16482507.cms#write )
Here, I Remember what Winston Churchill said about the generals, “war is too serious a business to be left to the generals”. Adding to that I will say “peace is even more serious a business to be left to the generals, who by their training are mostly prone to their myopic and tunnel vision.”
I wonder, if the Berlin wall would ever have been removed, if the decision was left to the generals.
So Gen. Bikram Singh should also know that it’s not Siachin, but the future of 1.5 billion humanity of sub continent which is at stake. If, the blood has been shed on a foolish act in the past, why not take action to stop further shedding of blood, for the noble cause of peace & eradication of ignorance and poverty, in the sub continent.
The thinking of such generals, can delay the emancipation of Indians and Pakistanis, but can never permanently deny the divends of peace to such a large world population, which is no more interested in continued acrimony, between the two neighboring countries.
Now,the peace loving people of both the countries have decided once for ever, that they will no more remain the prisoner of the past.
If any body wants to observe the dividends of peace between the neighbors, just look at Europe, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
Now, I invite the attention of all those people towards the following eye opening comments of a senior US army general, reported on 29 July, 2013 by the TOI, who say within and outside Pakistan, that Pak army is very influential in exercising its authority over the civilian governments in Pakistan, with reference to the major policy issues of the country.
WASHINGTON: The Indian Army is by far the most influential in the Asia Pacific region, a top American General said as he stressed on the importance of building military-to-military relationship between the two countries.
“As is in many of the Asia-Pacific countries, the army is the dominant service in those countries. India is a prime example. It is by far the largest service. It is by far the most influential,” US Army chief of staff General Raymond T Odierno said.
Link:- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Indian-Army-most-influential-in-Asia-Pacific-region-US-General/articleshow/21465988.cms
Thank You America
THANK YOU AMERICA
By: Col Khawar Munir Haroon(Retd),Sitara-e-Imtiaz(Military)
Thank you America, you did what you are capable of doing. You should have done it much earlier. You have unnecessarily put your people, the tax payers, under relentless pressure. Your “war on terror” expenditure has crossed $ 4 Trillion dollars. Expenditure on maintaining your troops in Afghanistan has crossed $ 100 Billion dollars. Your budget deficit is touching $ 1.645 Trillion dollars. You are under debt of over $ 14 Trillion dollars. Your economy is standing on the moving sands. A bubble, which your own economists are predicting, is about to burst. Very rightly so you have put strings to your support to Pakistan.
It is always good to run away from the theater of war. You did it in Korea, then in Vietnam. Prior to that, you buckled in front of Cuba, when Castro and Che Guevara kicked out your prodigy, Batista. You are running out of Afghanistan now. Do it fast, lest your poodle stops wagging its tail. This time your exit should be forever.
Look after your household. Something is rotting out there. Before it gets too late to mend, smooth-en up your wrinkles. I am sure; you must have calculated the risk of losing your good old friends, the family of Sauds. You must be aware of the disasters of delinking of dollar from petro sales. Iran and Venezuela has already shown you the door. What if Sauds lose their hold?
How many of you really know the state of affairs when Pakistan came into being? Indian Government betrayed the Government of Pakistan. British were an accomplice to this betrayal. Funds were stopped; share of equipment including military hardware was not given to Pakistan. There was only one textile mill by the name of Layallpur Cotton Mills at Layallpur(now Faisalabad). There was another textile mill by the name of Mela Ram Textile Mills in Lahore, which was nonfunctional. Today, Pakistan has 450 cotton spinning mills and 35 composite textile mills. The paper manufacturing facility was in East Pakistan at Karnaphuli. The electricity was scarce. The resources were so meager that Acasia thorns were used as paper pins to tag the papers. Lanterns with kerosene oil were the lamps providing light at night or in the dark offices. You must be thinking as to why I’m recalling these old stories. Yes! There is a reason. In all poverty and hunger, Pakistanis remained steadfast. These hardy souls toiled the land and got the results. Despite all the upheavals and deceits by your prodigies, this nation kept on progressing. You killed Liaqat Ali Khan to bring your own pets, but, even then the nation moved ahead. Your blunder was to put Pakistan under sanctions in 1965. Your betrayal jolted this nation. You played blind with India, when she was planning to dismember Pakistan in 1971. Then again in 1974, when India went nuclear, your response was muted. This was jolt enough for us Pakistanis to go nuclear. Not only that we went nuclear, our technology was much more sophisticated than Indians and even yours.
It is good that you passed the Pressler Amendment and again forced the Pakistanis to stand firm on their feet. Figures must be there with you. Sift through and find out that how the Pakistanis developed missiles even better than stinger. It must be in your knowledge that stingers do not function at Siachin. It was the Pakistani technology which broke the backbone of Indian Army Aviation in Siachin.
It is good that you have once again decided to tie the strings with the “Aid”. You know, this nation is unique. Almost blackout conditions do not make them rowdy hooligans. Do you remember the looting of New York stores and shops, when there was electric break down some years ago? The hardy Pakistanis can endure scorching heat and even then do not go naked. By the way, our scorching heat is above 40C and not 28C. More than 70% of our population lives in the rural areas. Out of remaining 30% in urban areas more than 90% is living in equally hard conditions. Therefore, hardship is part and parcel of the majority.
What about you? Your people are not akin to such situation. Your debt of $14 trillion is getting fatter by day. Main contributor to your extravagance, Japan, is now in itself in turmoil. The Euro is dying its own death. China will never bail you out. Do you have the guts to publicize what Gordon Duff is saying? He is one of your citizens, shouting at the top of his voice, warning you to mend your ways. This Senior Editor of ‘Veterans Today’ has repeatedly brought to light your follies. He says, “Afghanistan will have leftover 150,000 American troops killed, wounded or permanently disabled at a financial cost of $1.2 trillion over the next 20 years. This does not include other war costs”. Dare read his latest article, “Afghanistan: An American Rape. Is ‘slow withdrawal’ an answer to rape?”
Run Americans run, it is your fate now, because 2% of your population, Jews, is doing the same thing which 1% of them did in Germany, way back in 1929. You are being controlled by them, the way they were doing in Germany. How naive are you? How oblivious are you of the strangle hold of Israel? Disaster is their fate and so is yours. Save yourself if you can.
Author is presently doing as Principal, Lahore Garrison University, Walton Campus (ex Garrison Post Graduate College for Men), Lahore Cantt.
Sacrifice – A Lesson From A Japanese Boy
THIS letter, written by Vietnamese immigrant Ha Minh Thanh working in Fukushima as a policeman to a friend in Vietnam, was posted on New America Media on March 19. It is a testimonial to the strength of the Japanese spirit, and an interesting slice of life near the epicenter of Japan’s crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. It was translated by NAM editor Andrew Lam, author of “East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres.” Shanghai Daily condensed it.
Brother,
How are you and your family? These last few days, everything was in chaos. When I close my eyes, I see dead bodies. When I open my eyes, I also see dead bodies.
Each one of us must work 20 hours a day, yet I wish there were 48 hours in the day, so that we could continue helping and rescuing folks.
We are without water and electricity, and food rations are near zero. We barely manage to move refugees before there are new orders to move them elsewhere.
I am currently in Fukushima, about 25 kilometers away from the nuclear power plant. I have so much to tell you that if I could write it all down, it would surely turn into a novel about human relationships and behaviors during times of crisis.
People here remain calm – their sense of dignity and proper behavior are very good – so things aren’t as bad as they could be. But given another week, I can’t guarantee that things won’t get to a point where we can no longer provide proper protection and order.
They are humans after all, and when hunger and thirst override dignity, well, they will do whatever they have to do. The government is trying to provide supplies by air, bringing in food and medicine, but it’s like dropping a little salt into the ocean.
Brother, there was a really moving incident. It involves a little Japanese boy who taught an adult like me a lesson on how to behave like a human being.
Last night, I was sent to a little grammar school to help a charity organization distribute food to the refugees. It was a long line that snaked this way and that and I saw a little boy around 9 years old. He was wearing a T-shirt and a pair of shorts.
It was getting very cold and the boy was at the very end of the line. I was worried that by the time his turn came there wouldn’t be any food left. So I spoke to him. He said he was at school when the earthquake happened. His father worked nearby and was driving to the school. The boy was on the third floor balcony when he saw the tsunami sweep his father’s car away.
I asked him about his mother. He said his house is right by the beach and that his mother and little sister probably didn’t make it. He turned his head and wiped his tears when I asked about his relatives.
The boy was shivering so I took off my police jacket and put it on him. That’s when my bag of food ration fell out. I picked it up and gave it to him. “When it comes to your turn, they might run out of food. So here’s my portion. I already ate. Why don’t you eat it?”
The boy took my food and bowed. I thought he would eat it right away, but he didn’t. He took the bag of food, went up to where the line ended and put it where all the food was waiting to be distributed.
I was shocked. I asked him why he didn’t eat it and instead added it to the food pile. He answered: “Because I see a lot more people hungrier than I am. If I put it there, then they will distribute the food equally.”
When I heard that I turned away so that people wouldn’t see me cry.
A society that can produce a 9-year-old who understands the concept of sacrifice for the greater good must be a great society, a great people.
Well, a few lines to send you and your family my warm wishes. The hours of my shift have begun again.
Ha Minh Thanh
Compiled by Mrs. Fauzia Faisal
Nuclear Catastrophe – How to save humanity & planet earth by using thorium in nuclear reactors
A ferocious tsunami unleashed by Japan’s biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast Friday, killing hundreds of people as it carried away ships, cars and homes, and triggered widespread fires that burned out of control.
An 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Northeast Japan spawned a ferocious tsunami that’s caused massive destruction; flattening whole cities, starting raging fires, and killing hundreds.
Nearly 88,000 people are reported missing, according to the official Kyodo news agency. Nuclear experts said the solutions being proposed to quell radiation leaks at the Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima were last-ditch efforts to stem what could well be remembered as one of the world’s worst industrial disasters.
Situation has turned so grave that workers were ordered to withdraw briefly from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after radiation levels surged, Kyodo news reported, a development that suggested the crisis was spiraling out of control.
Now it is high time that world must wake up for launching a campaign of getting rid of ALL nuclear reactors from the face of the Earth, before another major catastrophe hits in some other country after Japan.
Now this issue has become a matter of life and death for the humanity. UN Secretary General must immediately summon a meeting of the Security Council to chalk out a unified strategy to combat the menace of nuclear radiation from destroying the life from the face of the Earth.
In this regard, as a first step towards making planet earth safe and free from accidents at nuclear reactors, which produce electricity using uranium/plutonium as a fuel, the world leadership must also look into the possibility of using ONLY thorium, as a fuel for producing electricity from nuclear reactors.
Unlike current nuclear power stations, that use uranium, the thorium plant won’t use a material that can be weaponised. It would also mean there is much less danger from a meltdown. Thorium is also more abundant than uranium, so it will be cheaper and easier to supply.
The safer material means it can be supplied at a lower cost with far fewer security needs. Security measures are actually the most expensive part about building current nuclear power stations. Thorium reactors, on the other hand, don’t require special containment buildings and can even be set up in normal structures.
The proposed thorium reactor is made to run by itself without any need for intervention. It will only need to be checked by a person once every four months.
Since thorium reactors are far safer than current nuclear reactors there has been talk of miniaturising them so a $1000 unit could power a ten house street for a lifetime.
