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Republic Day Parade Rehearsal 2016 Photos

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 15:35:00 +0000

This year 2016 will mark 67th Republic Day Parade for which practice is being held at Rajpath.Here are few photos

REDEFINING BORDER MANAGEMENT

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 13:41:00 +0000

"If one door closes another opens"

This statement if put in terms of border management it perfectly defines India's security scenario. As with extremely tight watch on our western border. it has has made the anti-national elements to look for other means to enter the country making Nepal and Bangladesh their perfect target but before analysing the security on eastern side of the country lets look at the situations on these borders

India-Pakistan Border: 3323 km

For reason being one of the most prominent location for insurgency,infiltration by terrorists and smuggling of arms, ammunition and contraband,the LoC being the most active and live portion of the border.To tackle this GOI and Army has taken sevral steps to make the border impenetrable. to ensure this a 3 layer defence is set up.

1st line comprises of the technology consisting of Fencing Floodlights,Night Vision Devices, Hand Held Thermal Imagers, Battle Field Surveillance Radars, Direction Finders, Unattended Ground Sensors, High Powered Telescope, etc

2nd layer includes Army and Paramilitary forces with their integrated check posts(ICPs) and constant patrolling with latter operating and monitoring the security apparatus.

3rd layer includes special cells of Local Police forces setting up nakas and checkpoints on the vulnerable areas and acting on the inputs provided by the Defence forces

(due to latest attacks on Punjab and J&K GOI has ordered to put up laser net around the unguarded areas along the river because the GPS coordinates shows that the terrorist entered after swimming through river Ravi")

As a result of the efforts indo-pak border is one the few man-made objects which is visible from the space

courtesy :NASA

India -Nepal Border: 1751 km

21st century Indo-Nepal relationship's foundation was laid in 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship which one can say is the Asian version of America-Canada relationship with its added benefits:

Nepalese the same economic and educational opportunities as Indian citizens in India and preferential treatment to Indians compared to other nationalities in Nepal
Nepalese and Indian nationals may move freely across the border without passports or visas and may live and work in either country

But with the changing world threat definition is also changing for both the countries. current issues at hand are:

River Kali: Nepal claims that the river to the west of Kalapani is the main Kali river, hence it belongs to Nepal.But India insists that the river to the east of Kalapani is the main Kali river, and therefore claim the Kalapani area belongs to India.

Missing pillars: With the view to address border issues India and Nepal started a process of demarcation of line. As per the Nepalese Government out of 8000 pillars 1,240 pillars are missing, 2,500 require restoration and 400 more need to be constructed.Survey teams from both countries will locate and identify missing pillars along the border and construct new pillars.

Human trafficking: Nepal due to its poor economy is the centre of well organised smuggling networks dealing in everything right from animal skin to humans. With the recent ecological disaster in Nepal human trafficking has seen a 500% rise in 2015 alone most of them being children.

A New Gateway: India-Nepal border is now acting as a new gateway for the terrorists to enter india because of porous security and border management on both sides of the border.As a result of this Madhubani located 45 km from Nepal, district has also emerged as a new recruiting centre and hideout for terrorists. Since 2006, police have picked up six terror agents from Madhubani alone.

With all this plate nobody checks credentials of people coming in from Nepal making it security nightmare for both centre and state.

INDIA-BANGLADESH BORDER: 4096 km

In recent times this border has been most active in terms of insurgency,weapons movement and aiding and abetting anti-national elements. 2 main issues has rose in recent time

NUCLEAR ATTACK- DO'S & DON'T

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 10:28:00 +0000

With scourge of nuclear attack everyday by the neighboring country to India; it is eminent to know what to do and what not in an event of nuclear war.

In a country like India nuclear survival and aftermath is a least talked issue as no one in the general public really knows what to do in such cases.

It is said that conventional war under nuclear umbrella is possible as it done in 1999(Kargil war) but one has to understand that time has changed .In case of retaliation by Indian Army under Cold Start doctrine is very much possible that Pakistan to save POK and its territory might use nuclear weapons.

This would definitely drive India to answer in full force thereby making this a full scale nuclear war in which cities will be targeted resulting in millions of casualties.Primary city targets would be New Delhi, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and RajasthanBut attack on any of these cities will directly affect the neighboring states

With which comes the issue of nuclear suvival

NUCLEAR SURVIVAL

#1 - STAY OR GO?

You must decide FIRST if you need to prepare where you are, or attempt evacuation. The nature of the threat, your prior preparations, and your confidence in your sources of information should direct your decision. If you know already you will be preparing to stay at your own home or, at least, the immediate local area, go now to #2 below.

If you are considering evacuation, your decision requires very high confidence that it is worth the risk. You do not want to get stuck between your current location and your hoped for destination, as there will probably be no easy moving forward or getting back. If you fail to get to your destination, you may be exposed without shelter, in a dangerous situation, perhaps among panicked hordes of refugees. Whatever supplies you have may be limited then to what you can carry on foot. IF you are in a big city or near a military target, AND you have relatives or friends in the country or sufficient resources, AND the roads between you and them are clear, AND the authorities are not yet restricting traffic, AND you have the means and fuel, evacuation may be a viable option for a limited time. DO NOT attempt evacuation if all of the above is not clearly known, or if the situation is deteriorating too quickly to assure the complete trip. You do not want to get stuck and/or become a refugee being herded along with panicked masses. If evacuation is truly a viable option, do not wait - GO NOW! Do so with as many of the supplies listed in #7 as possible. Better to be two days too early in arriving than two hours too late and getting snagged mid-way, potentially exposing your family to a worse fate than having stayed where you were. Because of the very real danger of getting caught in an evacuation stampede that stalls, almost all families will be better off making the best of it wherever they currently are.

TRY TO GO TO SOUTH IF POSSIBLE AND STAY AWAY FROM CROWDED CITIES

#2 - WHAT YOU NEED TO DO FIRST

Because time is of the essence, you need to first delegate and assign to different adult family members specific tasks so they can all be accomplished at the same time. Your first priorities to assure your family

survival are Shelter, Water, and Food/Supplies. While some are working on the water storage and shelter at home, others need to be acquiring, as much as possible, the food and supplies

#3 - FOOD/SUPPLIES

Because much of the food and supplies listed at #7 of this guide may quickly become unavailable, you need to assign someone NOW to immediately go to the stores with that list! Get cash from the bank and ATM's first, if it can be done quickly, but try and use credit cards at the stores, if at all possible, to preserve your cash.

#4- WATER

With one or more adults now heading to the stores with the list at #7, those remaining need to begin storing water IMMEDIATELY! Lack of clean water will devastate your family much more quickly and more severely than any lack of food. Without clean water for both drinking and continued good sanitary practices in food preparation and for bathroom excursions (which could become less sanitary than normal), debilitating sickness could rampage through your family with little hope of prompt medical attention. That is a likely but, avoidable, disaster, ONLY IF you have enough water.

Every possible container needs to be filled with water RIGHT NOW! It will be very hard to have stored too much water. When the electricity/pumps go down or everybody in your community is doing the same thing, thus dropping the water pressure, what you've got is all you might be getting for a very long time. Empty pop bottles (1-3 liter) are ideal for water storage, also filling up the bathtub and washing machine. (Remember, later you'll have some in your hot water tank.) If you have any kiddie pools or old water beds, pull them out and fill them up, too. (Water from a water bed should be used only for bathing or cleaning, not for drinking as it may contain traces of algaecide and/or fungicides.) Anything and everything that'll hold water needs to be filled up quickly RIGHT NOW!!

One of the shopping items listed at #7 is new metal garbage cans and liner bags which you'll also use for storing water. If you can't get any more new cans, you could clean out an existing garbage can and scrub it throughout with bleach, then put in a new garbage bag liner and fill it with water. Even sturdy boxes and dresser drawers could be used with bag liners. Choose well where you fill up garbage cans with water because they won't easily be moved once full and many of them together could be too heavy for some upper floor locations. Ideally, they need to be very near where your shelter will be constructed and can actually add to its shielding properties, as you'll see below. BE ASSURED, YOU CANNOT STORE AND HAVE TOO MUCH WATER! Do not hesitate; fill up every possible container, RIGHT NOW!

#5 - SHELTER

The principles of radiation protection are simple - with many options and resources families can use to prepare or improvise a very effective shelter. You must throw off any self-defeating myths of nuclear un-survivability that may needlessly paralyze and panic, and then seal the fate of, less informed families.

Radioactive fallout is the particulate matter (dust) produced by a nuclear explosion and carried high up into the air by the mushroom cloud. It drifts on the wind and most of it settles back to earth downwind of the explosion. The heaviest, most dangerous, and most noticeable fallout, typically dark grit, will 'fall out' first closer to ground zero. It may begin arriving minutes after an explosion. The smaller and lighter dust-like particles will typically be arriving hours later, as they drift much farther downwind, often for hundreds of miles. Once it begins to arrive, whether visible or not, all that will fall will usually do so in about an hour, coating everything, just like dust does on the ground and roofs. However, rain can concentrate the fallout into localized 'hot spots' of much more intense radiation with no visible indication.

This radioactive fallout 'dust' is dangerous because it is emitting penetrating radiation energy (similar to x-ray's). This radiation (not the fallout dust) can go right through walls, roofs, windows and clothing. Even if you manage not to inhale or ingest the dust, and keep it off your skin, hair, and clothes, and even if none gets inside your house, the radiation penetrating your home is still extremely dangerous, and can injure or kill you inside.

Radioactive fallout from a nuclear explosion, though very dangerous initially, loses its intensity quickly because it is giving off so much energy. For example, fallout emitting gamma ray radiation at an initial rate over 500 R/hr (fatal with one hour of exposure for 50%) shortly after an explosion, weakens to only 1/10th as strong 7 hours later. Two days later, it's only 1/100th as strong, or as deadly, as it was initially.

That is really very good news, because our families can readily survive it IF we get them into a proper shelter to safely wait it out as it becomes less dangerous with every passing hour.

What reduces radiation, and thus protects your family, is simply putting distance and mass between them and the radiation source. Like police body armor stopping bullets, mass stops (absorbs) radiation. The thicker and heavier the mass, the more radiation it stops, and the more effective it is with every inch more you add to your fallout shelter. The thickness in inches needed to cut the radiation down to only 1/10th of its initial intensity for different common materials is: Steel 3.3", concrete 11", earth 16", water 24", wood 38". The thickness required to stop 99% of the radiation is: 5" of steel, 16" of solid brick or hollow concrete blocks filled with mortar or sand, 2 feet of packed earth or 3 feet if loose, 3 feet of water. (BTW, lead is nothing special, same as anything else pound for pound.) You may not have enough steel available, but anything you do have will have mass and can be used to add to your shielding - it just takes more thickness of lighter wood or books, for example, than heavier earth, to absorb and stop the same amount of radiation. Increasing the distance between your family inside and the radiation outside also reduces the radiation intensity.

The goals of your family fallout shelter are:

•To maximize the distance away from the fallout 'dusting' outside on the ground, roof and trees

•To maximize the mass between your family and the fallout outside to absorb the deadly radiation

•To make the shelter tolerable to stay in while the radiation subsides with every passing hour

While a fallout shelter can be built anywhere, you should see what your best options are at home or nearby. Many structures already provide significant shielding or partial shielding that can be enhanced for adequate protection. If you do not have a basement available, you can still use the techniques shown below in any above ground structure, you'll just need more mass to achieve the same level of shielding. You may consider using other solid structures nearby, especially those with below ground spaces, such as commercial buildings, schools, churches, below ground parking garages, large and long culverts, tunnels, etc.. Some of these may require permissions and/or the acquiring of additional materials to minimize any fallout drifting or blowing into them, if open ended. Buildings with a half-dozen or more floors, where there is not a concern of blast damage, may provide good radiation protection in the center of the middle floors. This is because of both the distance and the shielding the multiple floors provide from the fallout on the ground and roof.

Bottom Line: choose a structure nearby with both the greatest mass and distance already in place between the outside, where the fallout would settle, and the shelter occupants inside.

If you have a basement in your home, or at a nearby relatives' or friends' house that you can use, your best option is probably to fortify and use it, unless you have ready access to a better structure nearby.

For an expedient last-minute basement shelter, push a heavy table that you can get under into the corner that has the soil highest on the outside. The ground level outside ideally needs to be a couple feet above the top of the table shelter inside. If no heavy table is available, you can take internal doors off their hinges and lay them on supports to create your 'table'. Then pile any available mass atop and around the other two open sides such as books, cord wood, bricks, sandbags, heavy appliances, full file cabinets, full water containers, your food stocks, even boxes and pillow cases full of anything heavy, like dirt. Everything you can pile up and around it has mass that will help absorb and stop more radiation from penetrating inside - the heavier the better. However, reinforce your table and supports so you do not overload it and risk collapse

Leave a small crawl-through entrance and more mass there that can be easily pulled in after you, but with a gap at the top to allow exhaust air out. Have another gap of 4-6" square low at the other end

for incoming fresh air. Make bigger if crowded and/or hotter climate. A small piece of cardboard can help fan fresh air in if the natural rising warmer air convection current needs an assist moving the air along. This incoming air won't need to be filtered if the basement has been reasonably sealed up, however any windows or other openings will require some solid mass coverage to assure they stay sealed and to provide additional shielding protection for the basement. More details on this in the next (#6) section.

With more time, materials, and carpentry or masonry skills, you could even construct a more formal fallout shelter, such as the lean-to on the right, but you will need to assure structural integrity is achieved and adequate mass is utilized.

An effective fallout shelter constructed in a basement may reduce your radiation exposure 100-200+ fold. Thus, if the initial radiation intensity outside was 500 R/hr (fatal in one hour for 50%), the basement shelter occupants might only experience 5 R/hr or even less, which is survivable, as the radiation intensity will be decreasing with every passing hour.

Adding mass on the floor above your chosen basement corner, and outside against the walls opposite your shelter, will also increase your shielding protection. Every inch thicker adds up to more effective life-saving radiation shielding.

As cramped as that table space fallout shelter might seem, the vital shielding provided by simply moving some mass into place could be the difference between exposure to a lethal dose of radiation and the survival of your family.

The majority of people requiring any sheltering at all will be many miles downwind, and they will not need to stay sheltered for weeks on end. In fact, most people will only need to stay sheltered full-time for 2-3 days before coming out to safely join the evacuation, if even still necessary then. As miserable and cramped as it might seem now, you and your family can easily endure and survive that, especially compared to the alternative.

It's really not so difficult to quickly build an effective family fallout shelter, especially if you get started planning it before needed!

#6 - ESSENTIAL DETAILS

If you've accomplished the above; securing your supplies, stored water, and built your family fallout shelter, CONGRATULATIONS! You have now succeeded in improving the odds of survival for your family 100-fold, or more! Now, you need to expand your knowledge and fine-tune the tactics that will make the most of your family survival strategy.

•If close to a target, your first indication of a nuclear detonation may be with its characteristic blinding bright flash. The first effects you may have to deal with before radioactive fallout arrives, depending on your proximity to it, are blast and thermal energy. Promptly employing the old "Duck & Cover" strategy, immediately upon the first indication of the flash, will save many from avoidable flying debris injuries and minimize thermal burns. Those close could soon experience a brief, tornado strength, wind blast and should quickly dive behind or under any solid object, away from or below windows. Even in the open, just laying flat, reduces by eight fold the odds of being hit by any debris. A very large 500 kiloton blast, 2.2 miles away, will arrive about 8 seconds after the detonation flash with a very strong three second wind blast. That delay is even greater farther away. That is a lot of time to duck & cover IF alert and you should stay down for 2 minutes. If not near any target 'ground zero' you will only, like the vast majority, have to deal with the fallout later.

•Government information and guidance is a vital resource in your response to a nuclear crisis, but for many reasons it may be late, incomplete, misleading or simply in error. While evacuation might be prudent for individuals who act quickly in response to a threat, governments will be slow to call for mass evacuations before an event because of their potential for panic and gridlock. As past government calls for duct tape and plastic led to sold-out stores, anxiety, and derision from the press, there will be great reluctance to issue similar alarms. If you want to assure that you have adequate food, water & shelter for your family you must act BEFORE the panic without first waiting for government instructions that may never come or as urgently as warranted. You alone are ultimately responsible for your family.

•Filtering the air in your basement shelter won't be required. Air does not become radioactive, and if your basement is reasonably snug, there won't be any wind blowing through it to carry radioactive fallout dust inside. Simply sealing any basement windows and other openings prevents significant fallout from getting inside. To improve both the radiation shielding inside the basement, and to protect the windows from being broken and letting fallout blow in later, you should cover them all with wood, and then with earth, sandbags or solid masonry blocks, etc. on the outside and even the inside too, if possible. If the basement air gets stale later on, you could re-open a door into the upper floors of the closed house, or secure a common furnace air filter over an outside air opening leading into your basement.

•Regarding fallout contamination, any food or water stored in sealed containers, that can later have any fallout dust brushed or rinsed off the outside of the container, will then be safe to use. As long as the fallout dust does not get inside the container, then whatever radiation penetrated the food/water container from the outside does not harm the contents. If you suspect that your clothes have fallout on them, remove your outer clothing before you come inside and leave them outside. A cheap plastic hooded rain poncho that can be easily rinsed off or left outside is very effective. Have water and baby shampoo near the entrance to wash and thoroughly rinse any exposed skin and hair. Exposure to fallout radiation does not make you radioactive, but you need to assure that you don't bring any inside. If any are stricken with radiation sickness, typically nausea, it is when mild, 100% recoverable and cannot be passed on to others. Before fallout arrives, you might also try to cover up items you want to protect outside for easier rinsing off of the fallout dust later when it's safe to come out and do so. For instance, if you have a vegetable gardening spot or cordwood for heating, you might try covering some of it with plastic or tarp.

•If without sufficient time to acquire radiological instruments of your own, like survey meters, Geiger counters and dosimeters, you'll need to be extra sure that your portable radios function properly from inside your shelter and that you have plenty of fresh batteries stocked for them. Without radiological instruments, listening for official guidance about the radiation threat levels in your particular area will be the only way you'll know when it's becoming safe to venture out. It might also be the only way you'll know when you first need to take your initial maximum protective action. When not in use, they should not be attached to any outside antenna or even have their own antenna extended. And, they should be wrapped in any non-conducting insulation, like layers of paper or bubble wrap plastic and then stored in a metal container or wrapped in aluminum foil to minimize the potential of EMP ruining the electronics. Having back-up radios would be very prudent. With extra radios, you can have one always tuned to the closest likely target city and, if it suddenly goes off the air, that could be your first indication of an attack. Same thing if electricity suddenly went out, too.

• When fallout is first anticipated, but has not yet arrived, anyone not already sheltered should begin using their N95 particulate respirator masks and hooded rain ponchos. Everyone should begin taking Potassium Iodide (KI) or Potassium Iodate (KIO3) tablets for thyroid protection against cancer causing radioactive iodine, a major product of nuclear weapons explosions. If no tablets available, you can topically (on the skin) apply an iodine solution, like tincture of iodine or Betadine, for a similar protective effect. (WARNING: Iodine solutions are NEVER to be ingested or swallowed.) For adults, paint 8 ml of a 2 percent tincture of Iodine on the abdomen or forearm each day, ideally at least 2 hours prior to possible exposure. For children 3 to 18, but under 150 pounds, only half that amount painted on daily, or 4 ml. For children under 3 but older than a month, half again, or 2 ml. For newborns to 1 month old, half it again, or just 1 ml. (One measuring teaspoon is about 5 ml, if you don't have a medicine dropper graduated in ml.) If your iodine is stronger than 2%, reduce the dosage accordingly. Absorption through the skin is not as reliable a dosing method as using the tablets, but tests show that it will still be very effective for most. Do not use if allergic to iodine. Ideally, inquire of your doctor NOW if there is any reason why anybody in your household should not use KI or KIO3 tablets, or iodine solutions on their skin, in a future nuclear emergency, just to be sure there are no contraindications with other medications or existing medical conditions.

• When you know that the time to take protective action is approaching, turn off all the utilities into the house, check that everything is sealed up and locked down, and head for the shelter. You should also have near your shelter fire extinguishers and additional tools, building supplies, sheet plastic, staple guns, etc. for sealing any holes from damage. Your basement should already be very well sealed against fallout drifting inside. Now, you'll need to seal around the last door you use to enter with duct tape all around the edges, especially if it's a direct to the outside door.

•You don't need to risk fire, burns, and asphyxiation trying to cook anything in the cramped shelter space, if you have pre-positioned in your shelter enough canned goods, can opener, and other non-perishable foods, that are ready-to-eat without preparation. More food, along with water, can be located right outside your crawl space entrance that you can pull in quickly as needed.

•For lighting needs within the shelter have some small LED flashlights or LED head-lamps to stretch your battery life. Try not to have to use candles if at all possible. Bring in some books for yourself and games for the children. Throw in a small/thin mattress, some cushions, blankets, pillows, etc.

• Toilet use will be via a portable camp toilet or a 5 gallon bucket with a seat borrowed from one of the house bathrooms, if you did not purchase a separate one. Garbage bag liners, preferably sized for it, should always be used and a full-size and bag lined garbage can should be positioned very close outside the shelter entrance for depositing these in when it is safe to do so quickly. Hanging a sheet or blanket will help provide a little privacy as shelter occupants 'take their turn'. The toilet needs to have its new 'deposits' sealed up tight with the plastic liner after each use and hand sanitizer towelettes nearby. Use a very secure top on the bucket and position it near the wall entrance with the outgoing upper air vent.

• Pets, and what to do about them, is a tough call if you fail to make provisions for them. Letting pets run free is not a humane option, both for their potential to die a miserable death from radiation exposure outside and/or to be a danger to others, especially with dogs running in the inevitable packs of multitudes of others abandoned. Preparing for them is ideal, if truly realistic and not a drain on limited resources, while 'putting them down' might eventually become a painful, but necessary reality if the disruption of food supplies becomes very long term. 'When An ill Wind Blows From Afar!' document below has more on protecting livestock, farms and gardens.

• Boiling or bleach water treatments will be used for cleaning questionable water later for drinking. (This is for killing bacteria, not for radiation contamination, which is never a concern for any stored and covered water containers, same for sealed food.) Tap water recently put into clean containers won't likely need to be purified before using. To purify questionable water later, bring it to a roiling boil for 10 minutes at least. If you don't have the fuel to boil it, you can kill the bacteria by mixing in a good quality household bleach at the rate of 10 drops per gallon, and letting it sit for at least 1/2 an hour. The bleach should be at least 5.25% pure, but be sure it has no additives such as soap or fragrance. You can later get rid of the flat taste from boiling, or some of the chlorine taste when using bleach, by pouring it from one container to another several times.

• There's much more that can be learned to better understand what you are up against and to acquire to help your family survive and to better endure all of this. While time allows, and if the Internet is still up & running, task someone with getting and printing out this additional information and watch the Civil Defense films.

BOTTOM LINE:

• When the TV or radio program switches abruptly to an terse announcement saying: "We Interrupt This Program For This Special Bulletin!", and your kids look up to you with questioning wide-eyes and eager for assurances, know then that you are confidently ready for them with your own Action Plan ready to go! That's what this is all about... saving our families!

OPERATION PATHANKOT

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:01:00 +0000

Terrorist attack in Punjab but before the pathankot airbase attack we all heard the news of ISI meeting with the militant groups. According to the report, ISI officials recently held a meeting with various Pakistan-based terrorist group like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizbul Mujahideen and other Sikh radical groups like BKI, KZF in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). The Pakistani intelligence agency was also said to have released more funds to the terror programme.ISI has also reportedly issued funds and asked them to strengthen their coordination or their funding will be blocked.

Now this definitely means something to few as Jaish-e-Mohammad which was not actively participating in ISI game-plan. So the result was Pathankot airbase attack.

REASON FOR SELECTING PUNJAB

In last one year there had been 2 major terrorist attacks in Punjab. t shares 553 km long international border with Pakistan where 14 battalions are posted. In one battalion there are 1150 soldiers thereby the security of 553 km border lies on 16100 soldiers with a ratio of 29.11 soldiers per kilometer which is little low considering the location of the state on the map.

Reason for selecting the air force base

Pathankot Air Force Station is a military airport located 3 km from Pathankot and is located on the Pathankot – Majra Road. It is part of the Western Air Command of the Indian Air Force and covers an area of approximately 2000 acres (809.3 hectares).

Barely 40km from the Pakistan border, the Pathankot Air Force station is one of the strategically most important forward airbases of India during war and peacetime surveillance. The station is not only a defensive airfield considering its close proximity to Pakistan, it is also a vital base for tactically offensive operations of the Indian Air Force. It provides logistic support to Jammu & Kashmir.

The choice of Pathankot by the Jaish-e-Mohammad was with an intention of testing the security mechanism and also to cause embarrassment. For any terrorist organization an attack on a military installation or base is considered to be a huge moral victory as it determines the strength of the outfit.

Questions need to be asked

As reported terrorist had 2-3 dozen magazines along with atleast 50 kilogram of bullets i.e. around 2800 bullets. Now with this kind of gear how they were able to get over the boundary of the base. Were there no watchtowers or guards placed.
It was reported that terrorist used the dense forest as cover which is actually Nalwa canal with Ravennagrass and locally known as ekra cover. With being on the top 10 target list why didn't the air force takeover the land and surrounding area compromising the security of the base
With the time shops were opened alongside the main entrance of the base and also homes were built alongside the boundary of the base; with a binocular any one can sees the base up-close. Now there is a general rule of prohibiting construction within 1000 meters area of ammunition depot. Why this rule wasn't followed.
How terrorist were able to talk to Pakistan within such close range of the border.

Bravery of the soldiers

This attack was conducted to give economic as well emotional blow to the country. Well they succeed in giving us the emotional blow as we lost 7 brave lives (GOD BLESS THEIR SOULS) but not economic.

This attack if proved successful would look much alike as PNS MEHRAN ATTACK where the attackers killed 18, wounded 16 and destroyed 2 P-3C Orion and serious damage to 1 aircraft which came with the price tag of $36 million per piece resulting in around $95 million blow.

At the end it is very easy to write these articles in a secure environment and count down the flaws but one should not forget LIFE OF A PERSON WITH HAND ON TRIGGER IS VERY DIFFERENT WITH THOSE ON THE KEYBOARD.

BORDER REVIEW- EAST

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 04:54:00 +0000

India has 15,106.7 km of land border and a coastline of 7,516.6 km. including island territories.India shares the border with the following countries:

Bangladesh
Pakistan
Nepal
China
Bhutan
Afghanistan
Myanmar
Sri Lanka

India-Bangladesh

Borders are the first lines of a country’s defence, and the movement of trade across them is critical to the health of economies across the globe. Co-operation among participating States is key to this border management and security strategy, in particular on international risks such as drug trafficking, terrorism, migration, transport security and organized crime.

Security threats have dramatically evolved in the 21st century and are not confined to national boundaries any longer. New criminal networks tend to be interconnected and organized, and the lines between crime and terrorism have become blurred.

With Bangladesh what we share was an traditional issue but it is slowly changing itself in complex issue. in 2007 it was estimated that around 20 million illegal migrants were living in India; just to give the picture its more than the population of UAE, New Zealand, Switzerland, Israel,Denmark(pop. figure 2015).From 2007 these numbers would have grown. Adding twist to this issue Bangladesh never acknowledges this issue. In today’s time this issue has taken dark turn as easy passage to the terrorists and other anti-national people and groups to enter the country.

now one would think these are the things we are hearing and reading for a long time but what are the solutions.

One thing which can and only be done is to have a Home Ministry level talk and by talk i mean result oriented one not a 3 night 2 day trip to New Delhi or Dhaka.
Switching over the border management to BSF or ITBP as they have done well on the western side of the country.
Creating a permanent Border Barrier as we do have few areas left. one can say that terrain is inaccessible but those are the routes which are being used by Human traffickers . To have options invite companies for consultation basis to have their view eg; ELBIT as their Border Security Systems are tried and tested.