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2007-08-16 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2007-08-16 14:42|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Meanwhile...

Indian army soldiers keep guard inside a jungle in Ganthmulla, 65 km (40 miles) west of Srinagar

Posted by john frum 2007-08-16 14:48|| 2007-08-16 14:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Elsewhere on the LOC..

An Indian army soldier looks through a Colimeter used to point the enemy targets in Drass, about 160 km (99 miles) east of Srinagar.

Posted by john frum 2007-08-16 14:51|| 2007-08-16 14:51|| Front Page Top

#3 And in Norfolk, Virginia...

Commissioning Ceremony of INS Jalashwa, the first ever Indian Amphibious transport dock of Indian Navy, at Norfolk, Virginia

Posted by john frum 2007-08-16 14:54|| 2007-08-16 14:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Looks like the boys in your first grouping had a successful hunting trip...

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-16 15:01|| 2007-08-16 15:01|| Front Page Top

#5 India has a moral obligation not to permit Kashmir's transfer into Islamic hands. Yes, this is a voluntary obligation but it is tremendously important to bar all further expansion of Muslim controlled lands.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-16 15:02|| 2007-08-16 15:02|| Front Page Top

Members of the Indian army relief and rescue team visit flood affected areas in the Gorakhpur district of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh

Posted by john frum 2007-08-16 15:16|| 2007-08-16 15:16|| Front Page Top

#7 In Waddington (UK), the Indian Air Force has wargames with the RAF

Posted by john frum 2007-08-16 15:31|| 2007-08-16 15:31|| Front Page Top

#8 John, your picture of the Sikh crewman standing in front of the cargo plane (IL-78?) reminded me of something that has bothered me for a while:
Are there any Sikh fighter pilots, since they are supposed to wear a turban, and keep their hair long?

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-08-16 15:59|| 2007-08-16 15:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri has said that a solution to Kashmir will not be ideal for any of the concerned parties.

Or, as we say in the legal profession:

"A good settlement leaves all parties equally unhappy."

Posted by Mike 2007-08-16 16:00|| 2007-08-16 16:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Yep.. Sihks are about 1/5th of the Indian Air Force pilots. They wear a "patka" under their helmets

This is Arjan Singh.. a fighter pilot (squadron leader) who flew against the Japanese in Burma and was awarded the DFC.

Note the Field Marshal's baton in his hand, topped with the Lion Capital of the Emperor Ashoka (273-232BC)

Now Marshall of the Indian Air Force (highest rank ever awarded)

Posted by john frum 2007-08-16 17:29|| 2007-08-16 17:29|| Front Page Top

#11 The IL-78 is the refuelling tanker version of the IL-76 transport.
The "MKI" (the SU-30 Flankers are also MKI) is Russian for Modernizirovannyi Kommercheskiy Indiski
(Modernized (Western, Indian and Israeli Avionics), Commercial (export version), India)

Posted by john frum 2007-08-16 17:40|| 2007-08-16 17:40|| Front Page Top

#12 The Flankers the Chinese fly are designated MKK ("Kitai" is Russian for China).
They lack the Western avionics, the thrust vector engines and the canards

Posted by john frum 2007-08-16 17:44|| 2007-08-16 17:44|| Front Page Top

#13 20 percent of the Indian Army's top brass are Sikh, including the Army Chief .. JJ Singh..

Posted by john frum 2007-08-16 17:54|| 2007-08-16 17:54|| Front Page Top

#14 There is also a Patka ballistic helmet.. designed to accomodate the turbans of Sikh soldiers

Posted by john frum 2007-08-16 18:02|| 2007-08-16 18:02|| Front Page Top

#15 I always understood the oldest male child got some sort of exemption from wearing the turban.

Anyway India should do what Israel did. Build a wall that turns the reality on the ground into realty. Don't let the Pakistani's cross the border and start to resign yourself that half of Kashmir is forever gone.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-08-16 20:39|| 2007-08-16 20:39|| Front Page Top

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