IB report, NGOs and the geopolitics of energy
The leaked IB report’s assertion that some NGO’s are stalling India’s economic growth has evoked mixed reactions. Electronic media channels had their field day by calling various stakeholders on the screen and not allowing any of them to speak for more than 1 minute, increasing the confusion at the end. Spectrum of accusations ranged from serious threat by Modi government to the freedom of NGO’s and stifling the voices of protest, to anti-national activities of NGO’s. Newsbharati factsheet on the involved factors and parties will help the readers form their own opinion.
The IB report
The report mentions that some NGO’s “have been noticed to be using people centric issues to create an environment, which lends itself to stalling development projects.” Implied is the assumption that there are ulterior motives either of the NGO’s or of the forces behind them. The report mentions “These foreign donors lead local NGO’s to provide field reports, which are used to build a record against India and serve as tools for strategic foreign policy interests of Western Governments.”
The targeted projects are nuclear power plants, uranium mines; coal fired power plants, genetically modified organisms, mega industrial projects [Posco and Vedanta], hydel projects at Narmada and in Arunachal, and extractive industries in North East [oil, limestone].
The report says “Identified foreign donors cleverly disguise the donations as funding for human rights, ‘just deal’ for project affected displaced persons, protection of livelihood of indigenous people, protecting religious freedom etc.”
The report identifies about 75 NGO’s and about 50 persons by name and mentions that “network analysis of all anti-nuclear NGO activity revealed the existence of one superior network [prominently driven by Greenpeace and renowned activists] and five territorial networks”, closely linked to “superior pan-India organizations and imminent persons.”
In spite of this vast coverage, the media discussions remained focused primarily on Greenpeace.
The Green Peace
There is a radical difference between the idea of an ‘NGO’ in the mind of common Indian and the reality of the international NGO’s mentioned in the report.
The Greenpeace is one such NGO. In 2012, Greenpeace received worldwide donations of 260 million Euro, equivalent to 21 thousand Crore Rupees.
With offices in 40 countries and staff of about 2426 people, Greenpeace maintains its own fleet of vessels on sea. All these figures are more near to a big multinational company than to an NGO in India.
Greenpeace's strategy, which it calls "market-based campaigning," has proved effective in case of multinationals who care for their ‘social branding’. It involves imaginative demonstrations, social media campaigns, and effective videos to harm the company’s image as ‘anti environment’. There are serious confrontations of Greenpeace with various governments. According to Business insider report,
"French intelligence agents bombed the Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, which was attempting to prevent nuclear tests. A photographer was killed in the explosion, and the vessel was sunk. French officials initially denied involvement in the bombing, but the plot was uncovered by New Zealand police. The Rainbow Warrior II was chased through international waters not long ago by an Indonesian destroyer and warplanes. Just last year, a Greenpeace ship protesting drilling in the Arctic was attacked by armed Russian commandos, who arrested the crew. The activists, called the Arctic 30, were charged with piracy, a crime carrying a 15-year sentence, before being released as part Vladimir Putin's pre-Olympics amnesty."
Some of the issues the Greenpeace fights are, so to speak, the bees in there bonnet. They earn a large amount of donations from their ‘save whales’ campaign. The crusade against palm oil in Indonesia stems from their belief that the amount of carbon given off because of deforestation in Indonesia accounts for a whopping 4% of global carbon emissions from just .1% of the earth's land surface.
Then there is the issue of leftist forces joining environment movements after the collapse of Soviet Russia. Dr. Patrick Moore, one of the key figures in the Greenpeace in its early days, writes in his book ‘Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist’
The collapse of world communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall during the 1980s added to the trend toward extremism. The Cold War was over and the peace movement was largely disbanded. The peace movement had been mainly Western-based and anti-American in its leanings. Many of its members moved into the environmental movement, bringing with them their neo-Marxist, far-left agendas. To a considerable extent the environmental movement was hijacked by political and social activists who learned to use green language to cloak agendas that had more to do with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization than with science or ecology. I remember visiting our Toronto office in 1985 and being surprised at how many of the new recruits were sporting army fatigues and red berets in support of the Sandinistas.
The selection of the issues Greenpeace picks up in any country is always shrouded in mystery. India seems to be its current focus. 278 of 2426, almost 12 % of its global staff strength is in India, while in entire Africa only 38 people are employed by Greenpeace. They have targeted 999 coal fired power plants globally for opposition out of which 455 are from India. [It seems Greenpeace is using the data of world resources institute] That gives ample space for the justification of charge in IB report of suspicious intentions behind raising ‘people’s issues’.
Some studies have suggested that Greenpeace is infected by agents of various multinationals and possibly intelligence agencies. The Center for corporate policy published a report ‘spooky business’ in November 2013 which details many instances of Corporate espionage as well as FBI spying and penetration of NGO’s. One or two examples shall suffice here.
The private security firm Beckett Brown International (BBI) spied on many non-profit organizations. James Ridgeway of Mother Jones, who broke the story of BBI’s espionage operations, wrote that BBI
“Spied on Greenpeace and other environmental organizations from the late 1990s through at least 2000, pilfering documents from trash bins, attempting to plant undercover operatives within groups, casing offices, collecting phone records of activists, and penetrating confidential meetings. According to company documents provided to Mother Jones by a former investor in the firm, this security outfit collected confidential internal records—donor lists, detailed financial statements, the Social Security numbers of staff members, strategy memos—from these organizations and produced intelligence reports for public relations firms and major corporations involved in environmental controversies.
In the evening of December 2, 1984, an explosion at the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India released clouds of the toxic gas methyl isocyanate, in what was probably the world’s most deadly industrial disaster. No one really knows how many people were killed on that night and subsequently; recent estimates from the Indian government have ranged from 15,000 to 16,000. However, these victims were never adequately compensated. In 2001, Union Carbide became a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical. In February 2012, WikiLeaks revealed emails showing that Dow Chemical hired Stratfor to monitor Bhopal justice activists, including the Yes Men.
Therefore the mention in IB report about Greenpeace India maintaining advanced and secured servers in Bangalore and a team of experts to monitor them is not surprising. In spite of the explanations issued by Greenpeace, why it is focusing on India is certainly a mystery, the answer to which perhaps lies in the global as well as Indian energy scenario and the war of geo-politics.
The energy scenario
The report prepared by TERI [The Energy and Resources Institute] for the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India gives a clear picture of India’s energy scenario. Titled
National Energy Map for India: Technology Vision 2030
The report says
"India has recorded impressive rates of economic growth in recent years, which provide the basis for more ambitious achievements in the future. However, a healthy rate of economic growth equalling or exceeding the current rate of 8% per annum would require major provision of infrastructure and enhanced supply of input such as energy.
High economic growth would create much larger demand for energy and this would present the country with a variety of choices in terms of supply possibilities. Technology would be an important element of future energy strategy for the country, because related to a range of future demand and supply scenario would be issues of technological choices both on the supply and demand sides, which need to be understood at this stage, if they are to become an important part of India’s energy solution in the future."
The report clearly points towards the country’s increasing import dependence of all fossil fuels. It also indicates that coal would continue to play a key role in meeting the country’s energy requirements.
"However, the indigenous availability of coal is expected to plateau in the next couple of decades with the current exploitation plans and technology. The need for energy efficiency in the end-use sectors and radical policy changes in the transport sector is also highlighted.
Gas is a preferred option for power generation as well as fertilizer production. However, while the domestic availability of natural gas is estimated to plateau at about 44 Mtoe by 2012, imports of gas are fraught with uncertainty. Accordingly, coal and oil are expected to remain the dominant fuels in the next couple of decades. In the BAU [business as usual] scenario, the share of coal in commercial energy ranges between 45% and 55% during the entire modelling time frame, while the share of oil ranges between 36% and 40%.
By 2031, imports of coal in the BAU scenario are expected to be about 1176 Mtoe. [Metric ton oil equivalent] Even at the current price of 60 dollars/tonne for imported coal, this would translate to a foreign exchange outflow of about 400 thousand crore rupees. With coal demand expected to increase in the Asian market, prices of coal may also increase rapidly, exerting greater pressure on the economy. Therefore, it is extremely important to reduce the import dependency of coal by gearing up the exploration and production activity in this sector with a view to increase the extractable coal reserves."
Therefore it is obvious that for all those powers who want to halt India’s progress, targeting Coal industry is the number one option. Nuclear energy is second target. If Greenpeace is doing that and if IB has enough indications that they are knowingly or unknowingly being used towards this end by some foreign powers, then the report needs to be taken seriously.
USA has 104 nuclear power plants and in addition to that consumes 13% of global coal consumption to generate energy and exports about 100 million short ton coal every year. The Indian Greenpeace activists should answer how the strategic interests of India can match with USA or Europe. We care only about environment and sustainability and rest everything be damned cannot be the approach particularly when China is taking giant leaps in power generation.
The Christian connection
Many other aspects of IB report like some NGO’s mysteriously targeting North East region of India, cannot be explained if we ignore, like the electronic media, the clear hand of Christian organisations in the entire episode. The report mentions Action Aid along with Greenpeace as an important organisation in this network. IB mentions a Dutch organisation CORDAID focusing on North East India. CORDAID is nothing but Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development Aid. CORDAID mentions on its website that it works in team with CARITAS, which is almost an official organ of Catholic Church; The Church describes Caritas as its official voice “in relation to its teachings in the area of charity work”.
We are proud co-founders of Caritas Internationalis, which brings an additional worldwide network of over 160 organizations; we are able to organize responses to disasters even more rapidly in countries where Caritas in represented.
Our local presence in a particular country often results from the fact that our Caritas partners are usually found in fragile and (post-) conflict areas.
The information CORDAID gives about India on its page is filled with bias tending towards hatred. The page says
"India is a country with two faces. While the urban middle classes prosper with the growth of the Indian economy, abject poverty prevails in other parts of the country. Indian society is layered and extremely diverse in its nature. Distinctions are made there on the basis of gender, religion, ethnicity and caste. Some groups are excluded from enjoying basic services and participating in the country’s development and decision making processes.
Income in the agricultural sector lies far below the international average. Small-scale farmers operating in remote communities and those who are excluded on the basis of their caste (Dalits) and ethnicity (tribes) do not benefit from investments made by the Indian government. And despite more progressive legislation, the position of women in India is poor and domestic violence is increasing.
For decades now the people of northeast India have suffered from armed conflict between government forces and guerrilla groups and insurgent organizations. The threat of violence and displacement are never far away and the most vulnerable people are the minorities in disadvantaged areas. India is also susceptible to natural disasters that mainly cause extensive damage in the densely populated areas. And climate change is increasing the likelihood of both droughts and floods."
It is not surprising that NGO’s with such an attitude towards India will spread enmity in sections of society under the garb of social service. The IB report states
As follow-up, an elaborate training session was held in Shillong, [October 28 to November 1, 2013] to equip activists with skills to use GPS tracking…… Activists of 10 North East NGO’s were trained to map oil wells, mines, dams and forests……..The trainers [2 Dutch and 1 USA] had constantly reminded participants that oil reserves in that area were as large as those in the entire Gulf region and that the precious resources belonged only to the tribals of Manipur and ought to be preserved for their ‘own use' in the future. It was stated that Government of India, in collaboration with MNCs, was stealing the resources……
The prominent donors from Germany for these agitations mentioned in the IB report ‘Bread for the world’, EED [Church Development Service (Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst -EED) is an association of the Protestant Churches in Germany], MISEREOR [German Catholic Bishops Organisation for Development Cooperation] are declared Church supported Christian organisations.
Similarly the famous Narmada project in Gujarat and Maharashtra was the focus of few NGOs. These NGOs received foreign donations of about 13 Cr. Rupees between 2006 and 2013. The main donors are Katholische Zentralstele Entwicklungshilfe [Catholic central development Aid] of Germany and Xavier Kalyani Mandal, India.
The IB report on anti Kudankulam nuclear project agitation says
"The movement was spearheaded by US educated S. P. Uday Kumar in association with father Ambroise of Tuticorin multipurpose social service, Tuticorin diocesan association, Father Jaykumar of Our Lady of Lourdes Church. 8 out of 11 NGO’s were FCRA registered and received almost 80 Cr. Rupees in the period 2006 to 2011. S. P. Uday Kumar received almost 40,000 dollars from Kirwan institute for study of race and ethnicity at Ohio state university [He accpeted this in a TV debate], as a ‘consultant on Group, race caste and ethnic issues through NGOs’ and for giving fortnightly reports, they were significant in the fact that they were very brief lists of general articles or books purported to have been read in the past fortnight’."
With such huge grants being doled out and accepted meekly, when so called intellectuals accept sponsored foreign trips funded by NGO’s [the report mentions, “At least 11 activists are frequent foreign travellers with many exiting India on trips bound for Germany or USA.”] with open Church connections, it is really difficult to believe that the mentioned 50 intellectuals are participating in entire innocence. No wonder that many of them are also famous ‘secular crusaders’ of India.
[The IB report is apparently the very first move to discredit, intimidate and muzzle all possible voices of dissent, well in advance, against the policy of the incumbent new regime to open up the country's economy for unfettered corporate loot, in the name of "development", overriding all procedural norms, environmental concerns and livelihood issues of the marginalised people, what the much vaunted "Gujarat model" essentially encapsulates.
While the first two pieces reproduced below report on the protests by the activists targeted for vilification, the the last one gives a brief sketch of the content of the leaked "secret" report.]
I/III.Intelligence Bureau report raises fears of repression
OUR BUREAUNGOs say report to muzzle dissent; refute allegations of foreign funding
NEW DELHI, JUNE 13:A report by the Intelligence Bureau (IB), targeting non-Governmental organisations, is raising fears among activists that attempts are being made to muzzle dissent.
“We are very much concerned that the ground is being prepared to oppose and to justify discrediting a whole range of popular activities and resistances and to weaken them by highlighting and taking out supposed fallacies of NGOs,” Achin Vanaik, member of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (India) said.
Vanaik has been named in the report, along with many well known activists, such as political analyst and anti-nuclear activist Praful Bidwai, MG Devasahayam, SP Uday Kumar, Medha Patkar and Karuna Raina. The IB report has reportedly been submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office. Uday Kumar, an anti-nuclear activist, said the report has undermined not just his integrity, but also his safety and he could take legal recourse against the IB.
‘Ánti-national’
The report, which Business Line has access to, mentions several international organisations such as Greenpeace, Action Aid and even Amnesty, besides Indian groups as well as individuals, has alleged that NGOs, which have been termed “anti-national”, are effecting India’s GDP growth by two to three per cent. However, Bidwai countered this by saying research has shown that the cost of environmental degradation, which is the agenda for most of the NGOs mentioned, is costing India 5-7 per cent of its GDP.Devasahayam, a retired IAS officer and power policy expert, who was involved in protests against the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu, said the report was baseless and the NGOs were actually carrying out the agenda of the Government itself.
The report alleges that these NGOs are being funded by foreign entities and are derailing the country’s “economic security” with their campaigns against developmental projects such as nuclear energy, coal mining, power plants, hydel projects and others, which have been criticised for not being in line with the agenda for sustainable development.
However, Bidwai refuted the allegation of foreign funding and said CNDP and most other NGOs named in the report are funded through domestic sources only.
The report also says Greenpeace plans to campaign against import of palm oil from Indonesia and dumping of e-waste by IT firms, both of which are seen as major environmental concerns globally.
(This article was published on June 13, 2014)II.IB Report on NGOs Comes Under Atack From Activists
Former Navy Chief Admiral L Ramdas, former Director General of Tripura Police K S Subramanian, senior columnist Praful Bidwai, anti-nuclear activist S P Udayakumar and number of other activists debunked the IB report, terming it "baseless" and aimed at "discrediting popular protests".
Ramdas, a Magsaysay award winner, said the IB report was leaked to "demean the individuals" while Subramanian, doubting the content, said the report should be placed before Parliament and there should be a debate on it.
The IB report to the Prime Minister's Office had said funds to certain NGOs were mostly used to fuel protests against developmental projects relating to coal, bauxite mining, oil exploration, nuclear plants and linking of rivers, resulting in stalling or slowing down of these projects.
The report named two anti-nuclear organisations--National Alliance of Anti Nuclear Movements (NAAM) and People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)-- spearheaded by US-educated S P Udayakumar who allegedly received "unsolicited contract" from a US university.
Udayakumar termed the report as "non-sensible and baseless" and said that by leaking this report, "they have undermined my security and that of my family".
He also refuted that Sonntag Rainer Hermann, a German national who was deported from Chennai in 2012, was his contact as reported by the IB.
Udaykumar said Hermann is not his "contact in Germany" and rather was an acquaintance from Nagercoil, his hometown in Tamil Nadu.
"Knowing somebody does not make him my sponsor. This is an effort to discourage popular protests from opposing dangerous projects," the activist said.
On the IB report mentioning that Hermann's laptop contained scanned map of India with 16 nuclear plants (existing and proposed), Udaykumar said he did not receive any information, maps or monetary helps from Hermann.
Senior columnist Praful Bidwai said that the report was a "cock-and-bull story" based on "false baseless allegations, most of them untrue and innuendos which try to establish guilt by mere associations."
"CNDP (Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace), of which Achina Vanaik and I are founder members, takes no money at all from foreign sources, corporate sources, government sources and is entirely funded by our own individual contributions," he said.
Achin Vanaik, retired Professor of International Relations in Delhi University, wondered why the report was sent to PMO when "as per procedure it should have gone to the Home Ministry".
"Both this government and the last government share a similar economic perspective. And this government's PM recently said that they want to go full speed ahead with what they consider development, which in itself is a very contentious issue about what constitutes development and we are very concerned that the ground is being prepared," Vanaik said.
He alleged that a ground is being prepared to "discredit a whole range of popular activities and resistances" and to weaken them.
Talking about activities of CNDP, he said, "We are Indians and we are opposed to nuclear arms and energy not just in the country but world over."
He said that CNDP does not get money from anybody and is funded by individuals. He categorically denied that the CNDP gets any foreign funding including from the Greenpeace.
Another activist M G Devasahayam, a retired IAS officer and power policy expert, termed the report as an "absolute conspiracy" which has neither "head nor tail".
The IB report had said that in the last few years, the country has been facing problems from some NGOs which have stepped up efforts to encourage growth retarding campaigns in India, focused on extractive industries including anti-coal, anti-uranium and anti-bauxite mining and anti-nuclear issues.
III.From Swami Agnivesh to Left wingers, IB report names many
by firstpost last updated on June 13, 2014 at 4:17 pm
The 23-page Intelligence Bureau (IB) report titled Concerted efforts by select foreign-funded NGOs to take down Indian development projects names many eminent Indians who have either wittingly or unwittingly supported these NGOs, with or without financial consideration. While some of these prominent personalities were engaged in a variety of projects in India, others were invited abroad to attend conferences where they were briefed on how and why some kinds of mining and power projects coal-fired and nuclear and the construction of dams must be opposed.Take Swami Agnivesh, for instance. The saffron socialist, IB report says, was invited to Geneva in Switzerland as one of the lead speakers in a side event on how extractive industries interfere with the enjoyment of human rights (14 September, 2012). He was invited by a Netherlands government-funded donor called CORDID. A `Geneva coalition has begun working on extractive industries which has opposed oil drilling by Jubilant Energy in three districts of Manipur, dam-building in Arunachal Pradesh and mining projects in Meghalaya.Elsewhere, while detailing foreign-funded anti-nuclear power activism, the IB report says that these networks are guided by eminent (often Left-wing) Indians, including Praful Bidwai, Achin Vanaik, Admiral (Retd) Ramdas, Lalitha Ramdas, Medha Patkar, Neeraj Jain, Banwarilal Sharma, Karuna Raina, Fr Thomas Kocherry, Arti Choksey and MG Devasahayam. The IB report has devoted quite a few paragraphs to SP Uday Kumars German contact and Ohio State University funding to the Kudankulam anti-nuclear protests.The report says that there are territorial networks, which are closely linked and supported by superior networks of the numerous pan-Indian organizations, including Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, National Alliance of Anti Nuclear Movement (NAAM), Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), Peoples Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), Greenpeace, Indian Social Action Forum, and the Peoples Education and Action Centre (PEACE).After Greenpeace expanded its activities to oppose coal-fired power plants (CFPP) in 2010-11, it devised a new strategy of engaging reputed institutions and journalists for publishing reports or making documentaries.The report says that to encourage the Indian-ness of its anti-coal approach, Greenpeace financed the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to study heath, pollution and other aspects at the Mahan coal block and plans to use the Mahan case as ammunition to ban all coal extraction. In April 2013, Greenpeace supported and screened a documentary Coal Curse directed by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta on the harmful consequences of coal-mining in the Singrauli region, Madhya Pradesh. It also funded an IIT, Delhi, study in April 2013 which said that water diversion to CFPP caused a 40 percent reduction in the irrigation potential of Wardha region in Maharashtra. It demanded a ban on water allocation to the planned and existing CFPP.On its part, Greenpeace and Urban Emissions and Conservation Action Trust published a questionable technical report which claimed 100,000 deaths in 2011 and 2012 due to heart problems arising from 111 existing coal-fired plants in India.Starting 2012, Greenpeace activists have been financed to attend international coal conferences, such as the Istanbul Coal Strategy Conference (July 2012). The conference was held to discuss international funding to encourage people-centric protests in order to stop new coal-build plants and to retire existing coal plants. The guests were accorded lavish five-star treatment for attending the conference. A map of Indias coal-fired power projects with basic details was circulated by US-based Climate Works Foundation and World Resources Institute.While its (Greenpeace) efforts to raise obstacles to Indias coal-based energy plans are gathering pace, it has also started spawning mass-based movements against developmental projects and is assessed to be posing a threat to national economic security. In India, Greenpeace is growing exponentially in terms of reach, impact, volunteers, movements it supports and media influence, the IB report says, citing specific instances on public protests in Singrauli, the Mahan coal block, and against Sasan ultra mega power project.These activists have mapped out Indian coal mining companies, specifically mentioning Coal India Limited (CIL), Hindalco, Aditya Birla Group and Essar, which have been targeted because they stand in their way. Greenpeace aims to fundamentally change the dynamics of Indias energy mix by disrupting and weakening the relationship between the key players, including the CIL, the report said.The report also has a paragraph on Greenpeaces Indian headquarters in Bangalore where it regularly receives foreign experts. Recently a group of cyber security experts upgraded its communication systems and installed sophisticated and encrypted software in its servers and computers. The IB basically is raising questions as to why an NGO needs to constantly upgrade its communication system and have it encrypted with sophisticated software.If Greenpeace is busy in the mainland, Dutch-funded NGOs are focusing on the north-east. The IB report gives examples of how they lure Indian activists and NGOs to serve their purposes. Interestingly, the Dutch government-funded CORDAID, has slowly shifted its focus from human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir to the north-east.To assess the potential for civil rights activism, senior policy officer CORDAID, Eelco De Groot, earlier associated with the Dutch ministry of economic affairs, had planned a visit to Manipur from March 5-12, 2013, but permission was denied. He had planned the visit through an organisation called the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the report says.To circumvent the visa denial, De Groot invited and funded the trip of 8 North Eastern participants to Bangkok from 28 April to 3 May 2013, for training in extractive activism. The event was formally sponsored by a Manipur-based NGO, rural womens upliftment society. The meeting resolved how future activism is to be organised. De Groot emphasised that instead of fighting the government it was best to make it difficult for companies to meet all the required international standards in oil extraction.This was followed up by an elaborate training session in Shillong from 28 October to 1 November 2013 to equip activists with skills to use GPS tracking to update a GIS platform on extractives in the north-east.CORDAID and three United Kingdom-based organizations, Amnesty International, Action Aid and Survival International, have been campaigning extensively against Vedanta Aluminium Limited. Around 15 Indian NGOs too are active against Vedanta. There was also an element of inter-corporate and international corporate rivalry. The report quoted the CMD of JSW Steel, Sajjan Jindal, as saying that some corporates routed around Rs 50 crore per annum in Odisha against Vedanta through American and Canadian organisations and Indian NGOs to stall the project.
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When both India and Pakistan possess nuclear devices and also the
means to deliver them, where is the question of our trusting these
"right noises".
Have we all developed collective amnesia to forget the ISI, Kargil,
26/11, Kasab etc. Are the Pakistani's also expected to develop
collective amnesia about RAW's shenanigans in their fair land. Are we
all supposed to forget US drones and Patriots openly using Paki
airspace like their father-in-law's home and secretly doing the same
in India.
The fact of the matter is that whereas it suits both sides to say that
they want to make South West Asia as a nuclear free zone (all those
foreign financed NGOs and sold-out Admirals named in the IB report
will jump for joy if it happens), but it does not suit India's
strategic interests at all. The need of the hour is for India to
develop (NOT acquire) the "big stick" and simultaneously develop a
"martial spirit" in our worthless people. The need of the day is for
India to say"which country am I going to gobble up today".
Sarbajit
On 6/14/14, Ravindran P M <raviforjustice@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is one area where I share Mr Sant Mathur's optimism. We are hearing
> the right noises being made from the relevant quarters.
>
> ravi
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