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Ramamohan Rao,New Delhi, January 30
In the passing away of General KV Krishna Rao, the nation has lost an eminent Army officer who played an eminent role in the Army as also in putting down insurgency in Tripura, Nagaland and Manipur, and later in Jammu and Kashmir.During my stay in the Defence Ministry and later as Principal Information Officer, I was in close contact with him. When I took over as Director of Public Relations in the Defence Ministry in 1981, he was the Chief of Army Staff. I had asked him that I would like to cover the Prime Minister’s address to the Army Commander’s Conference. But he told me that only the Army Commanders, Defence Minister and Prime Minister’s team were permitted. He said the release would be given to me by the Army Headquarters by 5 pm.After the meeting, I called on then Defence Minister Venkataraman about the meeting. He gave me the details, the text of his speech, and what the Prime Minister had told the Commanders from the notes he had taken down.I prepared a release, had it cleared by HY Sharada Prasad in the Prime Minister’s Office and the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Alexandar and with clearance from the Defence Secretary, released it at 5 pm as the Army Headquarters had not sent their copy.I was summoned to the Army Chief’s Office. Gen Krishna Rao seemed annoyed. When I narrated as to how I had got the facts and got these cleared, he replied: “Ram, you have done a good job. My blokes would not have done as good a release as you have.” He also told me to approach him directly any time I wanted to see him.I was the DPR (Defence) till he retired. My office in the South Block was below his office on the ground floor and he would drop by in the evening. My association with him continued when he was Governor in the North East and Jammu and Kashmir . When PM Rajiv Gandhi appointed him Governor of Jammu and Kashmir in July 1989, after a study, he sought a few battations of the paramilitary forces to put down the insurgenc. When suggested by Home Minister Buta Singh that he could use the Army as CRPF units were required for national elections which were due shortly, he replied that he did not want the Army to be used in Jammu and Kashmir.The situation turned worse when the Congress lost power at the Centre and VP Singh took over. Following the release of militants in exchange for Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of then Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, and the deteriorating situation, he sought an appointment with the Prime Minister. There was a delay in getting the appointment and he resigned and Jagmohan was appointed Governor. He was replaced by GC Saxena. General Krishna Rao was reappointed Governor when the Congress returned to power and Rajesh Pilot was appointed Minister of State in the Home Ministry.By that time, I had taken over as Adviser to the Governor of J&K. I worked closely with him and the credit for preparing the ground for the national elections and the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir should go to General Krishna Rao.He gained the confidence of the people of the state, dealt effectively with the police agitation and the Hazratbal crisis when militants took refuge in the holy shrine. Following the swearing in of a democratically elected government headed by Dr Farooq Abdullah, he remained in his post for a short while. — ANI
PM Narendra Modi with Maj Gen GS Chima (left), Additional Director General, and other cadets during the Prime Minister’s rally in New Delhi on Thursday. A Tribune photo
Tribune News Service,Chandigarh, January 28
The Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh NCC Directorate has bagged the Prime Minister’s Championship Banner for the second consecutive year.The regional directorate defeated 16 other directorates from across the country in overall performance throughout the year and other competitions held during the Republic Day camp in the national capital.The banner was presented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Maj Gen GS Chima, Additional Director General, during the Prime Minister’s rally in New Delhi today. Last year, this directorate had won the top place after a gap of 38 years.During the Republic Day competitions, the directorate won the Overall Best Air Trophy and Best Naval Trophy for the first time since its inception. As many as 47 cadets were selected for the guard of honour and Rajpath marching contingent.In addition, the directorate came first in aero-modelling, national integration awareness competition, general proficiency and mandatory competitions and second in social service activities. In various other competitions, cadet Ojaswi Sharma, Sgt Nitya Mahajan, Preeti Chaudhary and Amandeep Kaur, Shivam Sharma, Asavari Vaid, Jashan Pradeep Singh, Mahesh Rawal, Amit Sharma, Mohit and Amit Kumar emerged winners.
The Highest Decorated Regiment Of The Indian Army That Makes Enemies Tremble With Fear
When war calls, Sikhs answer. With 72 Battle Honours, 15 Theatre Honours, 2 Param Vir Chakras, 14 Maha Vir Chakras, 5 Kirti Chakras, 67 Vir Chakras and 1596 other gallantry awards, the Sikh Regiment is one of the most feared units of the Indian army.
The history of the regiment spans over 154 years and numerous unparalleled stories of valor that will never be forgotten. The first battalion of the regiment was brought together just before the annexation of the Sikh Empire in 1846 by the British. A fact that’s vastly believed is that the regiment’s heritage has its roots in the teachings and sacrifices made by the Sikh Gurus and has imbibed the fearlessness of Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Khalsa Army.
The Sikh Regiment fought with extreme gallantry during the 1st and 2nd World Wars under the Royal British Army. Then came the Kargil War of 1999 and the futile mission to capture the Tiger Hill. No points for guessing, the Sikh regiment was called upon for the fatal mission. With the immaculate efforts of sepoys Rashwinder Singh, Sukhwinder Singh and Jaswinder from the 8th Sikh battalion, key heights surrounding the hill were secured and enemy fire was neutralized. Eventually, despite the extremely harsh weather conditions and unending Pakistani fire, the Hill was completely isolated from all the three directions and was soon recaptured. 10 Jawans made the supreme sacrifice during the mission and 48 others were wounded. Tiger Hill has ever since been under the Indian Army’s control. This is just is one of the many wartime bravery stories from the treasure chest of the Sikh regiment.
In the wake of the recent attack on an IAF base at Pathankot, a committee is being set up by the government to review security at defence bases in the country based on the “risk factor”.Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar while giving this information today said the government has also asked the officers commanding the bases to do a thorough security assessment and fix any loopholes. Parrikar, who was speaking to reporters during his visit to the NCC Republic Day Camp here, declined to give details about the likely composition of the committee but said a notification in this regard should be out in two to four days.“A specific team is being made. Maybe in another week’s time it will be active. It will visit (the bases) and look into priorities like the risk factor and assets,” he said. — PTI
Keeping watch on Pak probe: India
Tribune News Service,New Delhi, January 21
India today said it was following the progress being made into investigations by Pakistan in the Pathankot terror attack, emphasising the country expects Islamabad will take action to bring perpetrators of the January 2 attack to justice.“We are looking for the credible and comprehensive action to bring all the perpetrators of the Pathankot terror attack to justice,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said at his weekly media meet while rejecting as “baseless” allegations of India being behind the attack at a University in Charsadda in Pakistan on Wednesday.Asked about the proposal by Pakistan to send a special investigation team to probe the Pathankot attack, Swarup said India had welcomed the move but New Delhi had not heard after the official statement from Islamabad.“In principle, we have welcomed the decision of Pakistan government to consider sending a SIT team… Rest is a matter of details. What they can see? Where they can go? What will be terms of reference? Those need to be worked out by agencies on both sides provided the Pakistan government firms up its decision to send the team,” he said.Swarup also said National Security Advisors and Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan were in touch with each other and that a formal meeting between Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar and his Pakistan counterpart will take place at a date mutually convenient to both sides.
Terror attacks are like organised war: Manohar Parrikar
Terror attacks on India are nothing less than an “organised war”, Defence minister Manohar Parrikar has said.
In an interview to ETV, the defence minister was asked about the attack on Indain Army personnel in Manipur and the subsequent surgical attack on terror camps along the Indo-Myanmar border and the recent attack on Pathankot air base.
On the first, the minister said: “We definitely destroyed terrorist camps. But we can’t reveal the locations due to strategic reasons.”
“Definitely we sent the message to terrorists that you can’t hit the Indian Army in this manner. You can not do it in organized manner. It’s almost an act of war. It was also not less than 26/11,” Parrikar said.
At least 18 soldiers were killed and 11 others injured when militants ambushed an army convoy in Manipur’s Chandel district on June 4 lst year. India soon after launched surgical operations and destroyed at least two terrorists camps, officially maintaining that the camps were along the India-Myanmar border.
“Our aim was to engage them in a small area and we were succeed to eliminate them.”
Talking about the Pathankot attack, Parrikar said: “In the Pathankot incident, we trapped them and killed them.”
The minister, who had days after the attack said pain must be inflicted on those who hurt India, also clarified on the comment and said it is not a “policy decision”.
“…about my lines, I want to make it clear that this is not a policy decision of the government. It was my feeling and as a defence minister it was giving me pain. I expressed what a common man of the country feels. Later on I added a line that when and how the operation will take place we will decide. This is a secret operation. I will not discuss more. But will say that someone can not take it for granted,” he said.
Asked about the reports of arrests being made in Pakistan, and whether he was satisfied with it, the minister said: “I think it is like that they are telling as they have to tell us something that such action will not be continued. But with earlier experience I have my own reservation.”
On a question if there was a failure on the part of the Army at Pathankot, the minister said: “It will be inquired (into). But the part of success is that they were trapped in a small area.”
He also dismissed the claim that Pathankot operation was a “failure”.
“…I don’t think it’s a complete failure as some people want to project it. There is certain section which trying to convert a victory into defeat. It took 38 hours. After that it was combing operation which confirmed that there was no one else.”
Ravi Dhaliwal,Tribune New Service,Pathankot, January 16
Senior officials of the Ministry of Defense visited the air force station today and took cognisance of the innumerable gaps in the security of the base, including the all important 11- foot high perimeter wall.Six militants had entered the base in the wee hours of January 2 and started firing from the outskirts of the technical area which houses the hangars of a fighter squadron, helicopters and other equipment.The number of officials was kept a secret and the media was also not informed of the visit. The perimeter wall caught the attention of the officials as on January 1 the terrorists had entered the airbase from the western periphery wall where a clump of eucalyptus trees tower over the 11-foot high wall. The rear wall is near Akalgarh gurdwara and is also adjacent to the point from where the militants are suspected to have infiltrated into the complex.Six Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists were gunned down by the security forces after a four-day gun battle. Seven Indian security personnel also lost their lives.The ease with which the terrorists penetrated the base carrying a huge cache of weapons has raised several questions on the safety and security of the air base.After the inspection, a senior MoD official signalled that the IAF staff, including senior officers, may face action over the security lapse.Ministry officials, however, confirmed that no insider was involved in the terror attack. Earlier, officers investigating the case had found that three fence floodlights at the base were pointing upwards while every other light there was in the right direction.An MES employee was questioned on this count.
Constable Shakoor Parray. A Tribune Photo
Cop flees with 4 rifles, ‘joins’ militants
Two of his childhood friends reported to be missing for last couple of days
Suhail A Shah,Bijbehara, January 16
A police constable posted as an escort of a police officer in Bijbehara town of south Kashmir has decamped with at least four rifles.He is believed to have joined militant ranks, said police sources. Two of the constable’s friends are reported to be missing along with him.The absconding constable, 23-year-old Shakoor Parray, is a resident of Kundalan Shopian. He was posted in Bijbehara as part of the escort of Irshad Rather, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Operations).Rather was seriously injured in an attack by militants on December 24 last year and was being treated for his injuries at the Army’s Base Hospital in Srinagar.“The constable is missing with weapons. We believe that he may have joined militant ranks,” said a police officer from the area on the condition of anonymity.The sources said Parray fled from his place of posting on Friday night. They said two other persons from Parray’s village, believed to be his childhood friends, were missing for the last couple of days.The duo has been identified as 20-year-old Gazi Fayaz Dar and 17-year-old Aqib Ahmad Dar, both of whom are school dropouts.“The matter is being investigated. We are questioning the families of the missing trio,” the police officer said. This was not the first such incident in the militancy-infested Kashmir valley.In March last year, a security guard of Altaf Bukhari, then Minister for Roads and Buildings, decamped with two rifles and joined the Hizbul Mujahideen. He is still is an active member of the militant outfit.In November last year, a policeman was reported to be absent without official leave two days after joining the police in Pulwama. He joined militants, but did not take any weapon with him.
Why is #ArmyDay celebrated? Some interesting facts about Indian Army
New Delhi: Army Day is celebrated on January 15 every year in recognition of Lieutenant General (later Field Marshal) KM Cariappa’s taking over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from General Sir Francis Butcher, the last British Commander-in-Chief of India, on 15 January 1949.
On January 15, 2016, India celebrated 68th Indian Army day.
1. Indian Army, the biggest component of Indian armed forces, is headed by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), a four-star General. At present Genral Dalbir Singh Suhag is COAS.
2. So far only two officers from Indian Army – Sam Mankeshaw (in 1973) and K M Cariappa (1986) have been conferred the rank of Field Marshal, a five-star rank, which is a ceremonial position of great honour.
3. The Indian Army originated from the armies of the East India Company, which eventually became the British India Army and finally the Indian Army after independence
4. Indian Army is the 2nd largest standing army in the world, with about 1, 129, 900 active troops and 960,000 reserve troops.
5. The Indian Army is a voluntary service and although a provision for military conscription exists in the Constitution, it has never been imposed.
6. Headquartered at New Delhi, the Indian Army fields 35 Divisions within 13 Corps. The army operates 6 operational commands and 1 training command.
RANCHI: Param Vir Chakra winner Lance Naik Albert Ekka’s septuagenarian widow could hardly walk in her Jharkhand village as old age, ill-health and working in the fields till a couple of years ago had taken a toll on her knees.
HT PHOTOParam Vir Chakra awardee Albert Ekka’s widow, Balamdina Ekka, (centre) with army men in Agartala.On Sunday, Balamdina Ekka hobbled up the stairs of Tripura Sundari temple to offer prayers, took a boat ride in the Rudrasagar Lake and adored every corner of the historic Neer Mahal in Tripura escorted by dozens of Assam Rifle soldiers.
“I can see my Albert everywhere, in the hills, lake and temple. I am happy that I could visit this place,” she said over the phone from Agartala.
When nobody thought she would be able to get out of her native village of Jari, she defied age and physical impairment to relive memories of her husband, the Ranchi’s brave heart who died fighting for the country in the 1971 IndiaPakistan war.
Lance Naik Ekka of the army died in the Battle of Hilli. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest award for valour in war.
In Tripura for the past two days, Balamdina’s boundless energy and excitement have surprised family members as well as army officers from Jharkhand accompanying her in the trip. The widow demanded that she be taken to every place her late husband went to when he was posted there.
The primary purpose of her journey is to visit her husband’s grave after 45 years of his death and bring sacred soil from the place of his burial.
Ever since she reached Agartala on Friday evening, where the Assam Rifles rolled out the welcome carpet, her excitement and energy abruptly multiplied.
Son Vincent Ekka and daughter-in-law Rajni Ekka are equally excited. “The mere sight of army jawans thumping their boots and saluting us in honour is overwhelming. Now we know how great the sacrifice of my father was,” Vincent said.
Ride out the China storm
India should focus on how to mitigate the effects of turmoil in an integrated world economy
The two slides in Indian stock markets over the past week have only served to underline what has become increasingly evident: Our economy is strongly integrated with the Chinese one, and there is no escaping the impact of a slowdown in what was until recently the engine of global growth. So hapless Indian investors catch the mother of all colds when their northern neighbour sneezes, and there is little to suggest that their sniffles will die down anytime soon. For, the Indian companies in which they invest are battling several fallouts: Poor demand for their products in China due to slow growth and a weaker yuan, the prospect of dumping of Chinese goods in India, and higher costs of servicing dollar debt due to downward pressure on the rupee.
The yuan has fallen nearly 6% since August, exacerbating a trade imbalance. Steel plants are prominent on the nonperforming asset list of Indian banks and the current situation is likely to make things worse. Global commodity prices have tanked due to a fall in Chinese demand and a combination of tepid offtake and oversupply has kept crude oil prices low. This is a big silver lining for crude importer India, on the face of it, but the underlying message is disturbing: Economic growth in some key export markets is unravelling. The falls in Chinese stocks are also disturbing for another reason. They suggest that the totalitarian regime is struggling to come to grips with financial markets, and that markets are not fully reflecting what is happening in the economy. In July the Chinese market regulator had said people who owned more than 5% in a company were prohibited from selling stocks for six months, the reason being that the markets had been falling “irrationally”. As a result, over 1,000 companies had stopped trading. In the first week of January, partly owing to the rumour that the ban would be lifted and partly because of the weak manufacturing data, the markets in China fell hugely, wiping out $2.5 trillion of wealth. Then followed a second round of devaluation of the yuan and its ripple effect: The shaving off of $194 billion from the wealth of the world’s 400 richest people. The market injection of $20 billion by the Chinese authorities could not do much to improve the situation.
The rupee has fallen sharply against the dollar, but Indian exports are still struggling because other currencies such as the euro have fallen further. India will have to come to grips with the fact that in an integrated world, much is beyond its control and it needs to focus on the things it can change: Slashing red tape, boosting investments and generating jobs. The next big opportunity for action is next month’s Budget.
WHEN Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called up Prime Minister Narendra Modi to commiserate on the Pathankot air base attack, it was a déjà vu moment. The same effusiveness was in full play about seven years back when the Mumbai attacks had rocked India. The then Pakistani President Asif Zardari had even offered to send the ISI chief to discuss the extent of culpability of rogue officers in the military while top Lashkar-e-Taiba commanders, including its ideologue Hafiz Saeed, were jailed and a special anti-terrorist court set for their speedy prosecution.This was unprecedented in Indo-Pak cooperation on terrorism. The offers yielded little because the Pakistani military’s strategy of using militants in Afghanistan and India at that time kept their intelligence agencies busy from exerting a similar counter-pressure.Three years after the Mumbai attacks, Pakistani public perception of its military’s prowess took a beating when US marines came and killed Osama bin Laden, and then, half of Pakistan’s maritime surveillance fleet got decimated in the Mehran air base attack that exposed the involvement of men in uniform.There was a window of opportunity in 2011 but the Zardari-controlled Pakistan People’s Party’s was unable to deliver on its promise to swiftly prosecute the Mumbai attack masterminds. Is it different now? Can Nawaz Sharif act on his promise given to Narendra Modi? Just over a week before the Foreign Secretaries of both countries are slated to meet in Islamabad, New Delhi seems to have taken the Pakistan Prime Minister on his word and added a few conditions of its own. One of them appears to be the arrest of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar of the Kathmandu-Kandahar plane hijack notoriety who has remained unprosecuted for the crime for 16 years.The state of play in Pakistan that encouraged Nawaz Sharif to make the “assurance” looks more promising than during Zardari’s tenure as Pakistan President. Nawaz Sharif’s third-time ascension as Prime Minister is unprecedented in the annals of leadership turnover in Pakistan. This was the only occasion when a democratic government completed its mandate of five years in office and gave way to another of the same make. The consequent ebb in the political clout of the Pakistan military has led to the democratic government getting a firmer handle on the tools of governance and policy making than its earlier predecessors.But the Indian Government could be indulging in an over-optimistic reading of tea leaves in the Pakistani security apparatus when National Security Adviser Ajit Doval crafted a stern message of take it or leave it to Nawaz Sharif. In a signal via the media, Doval claims that India has handed over all evidence, including phone intercepts, mobile phone numbers of the handlers behind the Pathankot attack, along with their names and locations. All of this again sounds familiar. India had gone through exactly the same drill after the Mumbai attacks. The then civilian government in Pakistan, a couple of shades more secular than Nawaz Sharif and therefore less complicit with radical groups, tried hard to deliver. The other side strove equally hard to thwart this attempt. When all else failed, the lawyer prosecuting the seven masterminds of the Mumbai attacks was shot dead. His successor also died mysteriously. The rapid-fire conclusion by Indian media commentators detected the ISI’s hand.It is not as straightforward and uncomplicated. A large section of Pakistan society is radicalised and tends to subscribe to the methods and philosophy of the radicals. This is mainly due to the unwillingness of all governments, both military and democratically elected, to change the intensely feudal and crony dominated arrangement at the top and intermediate layers. This setup has rarely allowed the subaltern to join them in governance and policy making, leading them to view the radicals as some sort of a revolutionary force that could give them deliverance from perpetual political subjugation by the landlords-cum-industrialists from Raiwind (the Sharif clan), Larkana (the Bhutto family) and several like them who get co-opted in Central Cabinets.The era of socialist and Left activism, the main drivers for resolving this structural problem and providing a solution, is over. India has continuously accommodated the less deprived by tools such as reservations and should understand this flaw better than the Europeans and the Americans who undertook other means, including domination of resource-rich nations, to keep their citizen satiated. Neither Pakistan nor India can ever resort to this technique perfected by the West for over four centuries. It is the Pakistani elite’s incapacity to effect changes in the system that draws its youth to the aesthetics of violence and self-destruction.India’s security managers in New Delhi’s South Block could take heart from the halving of terrorist attacks in Pakistan last year as compared to the previous year. Yet the country continues to host, often against its interests, a medley of violence-addicted groups who have the ability to turn the clock back on the current spell of sociability between the two Prime Ministers. For example, Pakistan marked the end of the year with the murder of its top anti-terrorism manager in Punjab and a blast that killed 29. Both were suspected to be the handiwork of groups operating independently of Pakistani military and intelligence agencies. Much like the Mumbai attacks, they were assisted by some former military officials who had branched out after Pervez Musharraf’s post 9/11 U-turn on using militant groups in Afghanistan. Some militant groups also began attacking their former mentors in the military after Musharraf’s ceasefire with India in 2004 had bottled up the Kashmir channel.If the bonhomie between the two establishments is for real, Doval’s conditionalities should maintain the pressure on Islamabad-Rawalpindi to keep in check India-focussed vendors of violence. But it will be unrealistic to expect a total cessation. Instead the leaderships of India and Pakistan need to turn their attention to policies that produce economic deliverance for their people. For India that would mean shorter trade routes for its merchandise exports into Central Asia and Afghanistan.For Pakistan, it should translate into access to energy and increase in the domestic investment rate to wean it from perpetual dependence on foreign aid which makes it susceptible to tutoring from the benefactors. Nawaz Sharif is best placed to deliver near-total peace with India. Not only is the international opinion ranged against military takeovers, Nawaz Sharif is a major beneficiary of the Zardari government’s annulment of a Constitution provision authorising the President to remove the Prime Minister. But India must move on multiple fronts with Pakistan. Holding it accountable only to the metric of terror will be insufficient and impractical.
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