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  • Commanders’ meet unlikely soon as India, China refuse to budge

    Express News Service
    NEW DELHI:  The next India-China Corps Commanders meeting is unlikely to take place soon as both sides are sticking to their positions regarding deployments and disengagement of troops along the various standoff points in eastern Ladakh.

    India and China have held eight rounds of the Corps Commander talks, with the last one taking place at Chushul on November 6. At the 20th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs on December 18, the two neighbours had agreed to hold another round of talks for taking forward the process of disengagement on the LAC.

    “(But) there is no common ground on the issues to hold the meeting. We are in favour of the option to resolve things through discussions, but the  Chinese side will have to maintain status quo as was in April (last year),” said a senior Army officer. 

    While China has been pressing for discussing troop withdrawal from the south bank of Pangong Tso first and other friction areas later, India is firm on discussing all the contentious areas of Ladakh simultaneously.  

    Temperature has plummeted to around minus 400 C in the remote region making movements restricted, but both sides are maintaining regular contact. “The movement from both sides has ceased,” the officer said. Troops of the two countries along with military support of armoured vehicles are deployed in eastern Ladakh since the Galwan clash.

  • India plans deployment of nuclear-capable Agni-V this year

    Express News Service
    BHUBANESWAR: Riding high on the success of 30 missions in last three months, India plans to deploy its longest range most potent nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-V this year. With the 5,000-plus km range missile in its arsenal, India is the eighth nation in the world to have ICBM capabilities.

    Although the defence strategists had planned an early induction of Agni-V compared to its medium and intermediate range siblings, the Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) has fast-tracked the process.

    Defence source said the indigenously developed game-changer missile, which is undergoing its pre-induction trials, would be finally deployed at strategic locations as selected by the armed forces. The canisterised Agni-V gives the forces the requisite operational flexibility to swiftly transport as per requirement on a short notice.

    “The induction process of the missile, which is under serial production, has already started. It would be officially deployed with the final induction trial in next three to four months. The deployment will pave the way for development of more long range missiles, which are on the drawing board,” the source told The Express.

    A symbol of DRDO’s technological excellence, the missile equipped with highly accurate ring laser gyro based inertial navigation and most modern micro inertial navigation system with advanced compact avionics is capable of taking down targets in whole of Asia and half of Europe.

    India has also planned to test some new technologies, including the multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRV), which allows long range missiles to deliver multiple warheads programmed to destroy different targets hundreds of km away from each other and alternatively launch more than one warhead assigned to one target.

    This apart, several missions, including maiden flight trial of beyond visual range Astra Mk II having a strike range of over 150 km, user trial of guided Pinaka rockets and developmental test of an advanced version of home grown subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay have been planned in early 2021.

    “Development of new Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) planes and underwater unmanned vessels (UUVs) along with the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mk-II will be the areas of focus for the DRDO this year,” said a defence official.

    The DRDO has already received orders for development of AEW&C Block 2 aircraft under a Rs 10,500 crore project.

  • Father of Kashmir youth killed in ‘encounter’ waits with empty grave 

    Express News Service
    SRINAGAR: With the police not handing over the dead bodies of the three local youth killed in a recent ‘encounter’ in Srinagar outskirts, father of one of the slain youth has dug up an empty grave for his son at his ancestral graveyard in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

    Mushtaq Ahmad, father of 11th class student Athar Mushtaq has dug up an empty grave at his native village of Belou. Athar was among three youth, whom security forces say were militants and killed in an encounter at Lawaypora in Srinagar outskirts on December 30. Police claimed an assault rifle and two pistols were recovered at the encounter site.

    However, families of the slain youth have alleged that the three were civilians and not even remotely connected with militancy. “My son was studying in class 11th. He was a civilian and brutally killed by troops in a staged encounter. Now I want his body back so that I can give a proper burial to my son’s body at our graveyard,” said Mushtaq.

    The bodies of all the three slain youth Athar Mushtaq, Aijaz Ahmad Ganai, both hailing from Pulwama and Zubair Ahmad Lone from Shopian were buried by police quietly in a graveyard in Sonamarg area in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. After the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, police is not handing over bodies of local militants killed in encounters to their families.

    “After my son’s death, I went to Srinagar and visited the Police Control Room (PCR) Srinagar to see my son’s face for the last time. I was not allowed. Then I went to Gund, Ganderbal and pleaded with security men to let me, my wife and my daughter see Athar’s face. But we were not allowed to see him for the last time,” said Mushtaq.

    He appealed government to return his son’s body so that he can give a proper burial to the body. “I will wait to bury the body at his ancestral graveyard here,” said Mushtaq. He threatened to take his life if his son’s body was not handed over. 

    ‘Threats started after getting domicile’ A 67-year old goldsmith Satpal Nischal, who was shot dead by militants at his shop in Hari Singh High street of Srinagar on December 31, had never faced any militant threat, but was killed after he had got the domicile certificate. “My father was living in Kashmir since 1970 and running this jewellery shop since 1984. We did not close our shop even during the peak of militancy in 1990s,” said Satpal’s elder son Rakesh

  • ISI, terror groups resort to cyber recruitment in J&K: Officials 

    In 2020, over two dozen terror modules were busted by security agencies leading to the arrest of over 40 such sympathisers.

  • Editorial :- Conspiratorial Pitch in Kartarpur corridor Is Plotted by Imran Khan.

    conspiratorial pitch in Kartarpur corridor Is  Plotted by Imran Khan.who wants to divide india for making siddhu the pm of so called Khalistani. In 1960 nehru & Chow – en- Lai embraced each other, that photo was published in my students’ Hindi weekly (“Badhte Chalen ”) From Delhi.

    Today, I am reminded of Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan and Navjot Singh Sidhu, the Congress ambassador sent by Rahul Gandhi, who embraced each other’s praise. After that incident, in 1962 how Nehru’s Defense Minister Comrade Krishna Menon played bloody cricket for China, it is known to all of you.

    It seems that now in the corridor of Kartarpur Corridor, Pakistan’s current PM Imran Khan has made a conspiratorial pitch as the Kaurav had prepared a laksha Grih for the Pandavas,

    Siddhu Said – Hindustan Jeeve – Pakistan Jeeve – My Yaar Imran Jive Imran Khan Said – Siddhu Would win in Pakistan being very popular in Pakistan. Imran Khan gave Sidhu the invitation to contest elections from Pakistan This proposal seems to be that in the near future, they can send a similar proposal to Rahul Gandhi by Dreaming that it is possible that in the future, Siddhu Might be PM of So Called Khalistani .

    BJP spokes Person ,Sambit Patra had said that the majority of the common Indians want Narendra Modi to be the prime minister again but Pakistan wants Rahul Gandhi to be the prime minister Instead of modi. Various comments and tweets of Pakistani leaders, including Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, were also mentioned this intention.

    The concerned Sambit Patra said, “What is the coincidence of this thread of similarity between Congress and Pakistan? Or it is more than co-Incidence, He said “ Congress leaders have commented on the situation in India, and Pakistan’s methods have supported them, I would say that this is part of a design and there is no co-incidence.” In this context, he said that Congress President Mr. Gandhi used the ‘surgical strike’ in political debate to insult the Indian army and joked about it. ‘… Pakistan used Rahul Gandhi’s remarks from the for this.

    Current leaders such as Pakistan’s leaders Fawad Hussain and former Home Minister Rehman Malik have used them. Rehman Malik says that Rahul Gandhi is your next Prime Minister (India) because he understands. ” He said that Mr. Malik also tweeted that Prime Minister Modi must be replaced by Rahul Gandhi. “It is certain that some people want Rahul Gandhi to be raised as a big leader in India. “Rahul Gandhi says Modi’s removal.

    Prior to Sonia Gandhi’s instructions, Mani Shankar Aiyar had gone to Pakistan to ask the ISI to remove Modi’s government?

    The developments that took place in the presence of Sidhu in Pakistan, in the context of the Kartarpur Corridor today, appear to be that Khalistani angle in Pakistan’s Kartarpur event. Imran Khan and Sidhu are both famous cricketers. Together, the duo have prepared the conspiratorial Pitch in Lahor Kartarpur corridor.

    Jinnah and Pandit Nehru were power greedy. In order to gain power Nehru & Jinnah accepted the division of India in 1947, to become the head of state of its own countries. In the same way, Rahul Gandhi wants to become the Prime Minister anyhow by hook or by crook as Nehru became the Prime Minister of India.

    Sidhu wants to deceive his own country India as done in 1962 then Defense Minister Comrade Krishna Menon.

    Khalistani angle at kartarpur corridor in lahor and , and since 1947, to support the Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, they want to make their conspiratorial pitch  goals successful?

    India’s 130 core people believe this mantra of PM Modi of India “ Sabka Sath Sabka Vikash” to strengthen the unity of India.