... article on the Armed Forces of Pakistan. Pakistan's Armed Forces by Maj (retd) Zahid Yazdanie, Irvine, CA "The armed forces in Pakistan always acted like a holy cow. Nobody ever dared to bring out the real worth of the Pakistan armed forces. Outsiders only knew them as someone too sacred to be discussed. Today, we are in a mess because of this protectionist attitude. The armed forces have gradually... actually in the economy If we calculate all the resources spent on the armed forces in the last 30 years, take out 50% of it and spend on infrastructure, industry, agriculture and social services, Pakistan today would have been totally debt free, prosperous and definitely with strong and much better armed forces. It would be better now to put the immense human resources of... trade at Rs 100 /dollar. The prices of commodities will jump through the roof. And rampages (like the one in Peshawar) will follow in all parts and organizations in Pakistan. Pakistan's armed forces always deliberately created a false security threat for Pakistani politicians. They emphasized a bigger defense budget, a bigger force, more equipment and Page 146 thus ...
... true secularism for which this nation stands. The nation will definitely benefit if it incorporates some of the values and the discipline of the Armed Forces. I shall conclude with an anecdote, which will explain my confidence in the Armed Forces. In 1999 the Institute of National Integration in Pune sent some of its religious teachers for a workshop to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry... for it is necessary for the greatness of India's future." It is hoped that this book will get a wide circulation among the thinking people of India and particularly in the Armed Forces. For the Armed Forces have a great responsibility on their shoulders not only in defending the nation from external attacks, but also in bringing about the integration of the nation leading ultimately to a... was never subjugated. In fact, the invaders were stimulated and assimilated in this. The book covers briefly the history, culture, political set-up, socio-economic life, present-day trends, the armed forces in India and potential avenues of future growth. Professor Reddy has been closely associated with the Indian Army since 1993 when he was invited by Late B.C. Joshi who was then Chief of ...
... A Vision of United India Chapter 12 The Armed Forces in India We have today in India a fine and living example of this national and secular approach in the Armed Forces. It will, therefore, not be out of place to make a study of their working. For indeed, they represent a fine example of unity in diversity, secularism and patriotism. Not only have... is the Truth. • The training imparted in the Indian Armed Forces is another important factor. The traditions, the customs of gallantry and honour drilled into the minds of all members of the Army, the highest form of comradeship, the esprit de corps both in peace and battle play a key role in the functioning of the Armed Forces. This sense of unity, while respecting the traditions of Indian... integrity of the country intact. What are the factors that have made such a record possible? We shall bring out some of the significant ones. • The jawan and the officer of the modern Indian Armed Forces is the inheritor of a long culture of heroism and valour. In fact, he is the final product in the long chain of warriors, which this country has produced. For in the Indian tradition, there is nothing ...
... parties had failed to reach a compromise, and there was a serious risk that the country would be plunged into a serious crisis. Under such conditions, Zia said, "It is an inexcusable sin for the Armed Forces to sit as silent spectators...the Army perforce had to intervene to save the country". During this period, a conscious decision was taken to wage what may be called the Low Intensity Conflict... Despite all precautions taken by the Pakistanis, and the killing of a large number of cadres belonging to Harkat-Ul-Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Lashkar-e-Toiba Zia committed the Pakistani armed forces, through the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) division, to arming and training the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Their operations took a heavy toll on the Soviet garrison. Unable to withstand the... of Sindh and Punjab. In 1983, there was a rebellion in Sindh. Military rule invariably heightens ethnic tensions in Pakistan, since Sindh and Baluchistan are poorly represented in the armed forces. They account for about 30% of the population but only 5% of the army. Extended military rule in a multi-ethnic and diversified society also increases political fragmentation and creates ...
... gave his maiden speech at 3 am. To the people of Pakistan he stated boldly "the armed forces have never let you down," hoping that at that early hour, his listeners would not recall who was behind Pakistan's debacle in 1971. To some it bore an eerie resemblance to Yahya's boasting in March of 1971 that the armed forces were prepared to do everything to preserve the integrity of Pakistan, and that this... consultation (not binding) with the proposed National Security Council, comprising the prime minister, the Senate chairman, the leader of the opposition, the four provincial chief ministers, the three armed forces chiefs, joint chiefs of staff chairman and he himself presiding over the meetings. Page 104 ...
... I explained everything to him. He told me: "All right, you go back home. I'll see what I can do." I went back home. Suddenly I heard: "Pinu, run, run! S.P. Pollard-saheb is there with his armed forces. Run!" This Pollard-saheb used to harrass the freedom-fighters of 1942. He arrested Chhotokaka and took him away. He also took with him the policeman we had caught. On the way Mr. Pollard got... The charge was that Kaka had beaten a policeman. When the police had come to arrest him we beat up the police-party as well and detained one of them. That is why Pollard-saheb turned up with his armed forces to arrest Kaka. The case was heard first at the S.D.O.’s court. The S.D.O. was a decent, patriotic Muslim gentleman. He had once penalised Pollard-saheb himself for kicking a local advocate ...
... harmony and understanding. The fourth point is that even in today's India we have a living example of this unity and national integration in the Armed Forces. It will be worthwhile to make a detailed study of the working of the Armed Forces and incorporate whatever is possible into the mainstream of the national life. Finally, as a first practical step some suggestions are being made ...
... occupation, and worship. The pact also provided for the minorities to participate in the public life of their country, to hold political or other offices and to serve in their country's civil and armed forces. The Liaquat-Nehru Pact The Liaquat-Nehru Pact provided for a mechanism to deal with oppressive elements with an iron hand. Both the governments decided to set up minority commissions... industrial unrest and strikes became common. The impotence of the political leadership and general corruption in the society as compared with the well integrated and disciplined organization of the armed forces and their role in the maintenance of law and order led to a perception amongst the higher military command that it was they who had to maintain law and order and keep the state intact. ...
... their history, rulers of the earth. Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt. The one-time desperate corporal-without-a-future had become “Leader of the nation, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Head of Government and Supreme Executive Chief, Supreme Judiciar and Leader of the [NSDAP] Party”. 4 Not only had he become master of life and death in the country he ruled, where his will was ...
... governing class or body in which sovereign authority is centred. Nor can there be any security if the armed force of the State is balanced or its sole effectivity diminished by the existence of other armed forces belonging to groups and individuals and free in any degree from the central control or able to use their power against the governing authority. Even so, even with this authority backed by a sole ...
... of the plenitudes, awake in the piercing of the Coverers. Page 374 अहं हुवान आर्क्षे श्रुतर्वणि मदच्युति । शर्धांसीव स्तुकाविनां मृक्षा शीर्षा चतुर्णाम् ॥१३॥ 13) As if calling armed forces in Shrutarvan, son of Riksha, from whom drips the rapturous inspiration, I comb the shaggy-maned head of the four. मां चत्वार आशवः शविष्ठस्य द्रवित्नवः । सुरथासो अभि प्रयो वक्षन् वयो न तुग्रयम् ...
... which he further revised, but he does not seem to have shown the result to anyone, and it remained unpublished during his lifetime. India and the War. [1] 6 April 1942 . The Japanese armed forces captured Singapore on 15 February and Rangoon on 7 March 1942. Quickly moving north, they forced British and Indian forces to retreat into India. At this point many disciples of Sri Aurobindo living ...
... of personal sin in slaughter or by the consideration equally ethical of his public and social duty, the defence of the Right, the opposition .demanded by conscience from all noble natures to the armed forces of .injustice and oppression. When ethical considerations collide — as they often do — can they be resolved at the ethical level? Or else are we to say that the problem is insoluble? The Gita's ...
... Working Committee passed the Quit India resolution. It renewed the demand that British rule should end in India immediately, and gave the assurance that it was agreeable to the stationing of the armed forces of the Allies in India. It pleaded with Britain to accept the very reasonable demand, failing which it would be reluctantly compelled to utilise all the non-violent strength for the vindication ...
... them are being taken. Such States may in many ways become barriers to the growth of Indian freedom, enclaves where foreign authority still prevails, and where the possibility of maintaining foreign-armed forces has been stated to be a likely contingency and a perpetual menace to the freedom of the people of the States as well as of the rest of India. The acceptance beforehand of the novel ...
... Some of the War scenes of Pondicherry come to mind. Here there was no question of Volunteers. France has compulsory military training and Frenchmen on attaining the age of eighteen have to join the armed forces and undergo military training for a full period of one or two years. The Renonçants of Pondicherry, that is, those Indians who had secured their full citizenship rights by renouncing their persona ...
... of personal sin in slaughter or by the consideration equally ethical of his public and social duty, the defence of the Right, the opposition demanded by conscience from all noble natures to the armed forces of injustice and oppression? That question has been raised in our own time and the present hour, and it can be solved, as we solve it now, by one or other of very various solutions, but all from ...
... civic rights and the same should obtain for nationals of French India resident in the new free India. There should be facilities for any French Indian to occupy Government posts and join Indian armed forces and to get admission to educational institutions and have access to the opportunities for research and scientific training and knowledge available in India, while these things should be also available ...
... forces can be compelled or persuaded to admit them or, as more often happens, use them as subservient aids or inspiring battle-cries, a camouflage for their own interests. Ideas sometimes leap out as armed forces and break their way through the hedge of unideal powers; sometimes they reverse the position and make interests their subordinate helpers, a fuel for their own blaze; sometimes they conquer by ...
... diabolic, we should be able to see the element of the infra-rational as quite likely at several times to need violent opposition on our part. Ahimsa, leading to an apologetic attitude towards our armed forces as if in keeping up the Page 41 martial spirit we were defaulting from the ideal of the divine that India has always visioned, is an utter falsity. If the pacifists in India ...
... limits of elitism; the secret Germany was a club to which new members were elected and for which they were trained, one by one.” 719 Claus von Stauffenberg chose to serve his fatherland in the armed forces. One of his subordinates remembered later: “I was extraordinarily impressed by Stauffenberg’s personality. He seemed to me the ideal of an officer … He was a man possessed of natural authority.” ...
... Hitler blamed the turn of events on his generals, accusing them of a lack of faith – Glaube – in Nazism and its Führer, and took upon himself the responsibility of supreme commander of the German armed forces. The official communiqué by which the people were informed of this decision mentioned “the will and sense of responsibility, together with an inner vocation , which had induced the statesman Adolf ...
... Britain was bound to find it difficult to hold on to her empire. This was further aggravated by a top secret signal sent by the Viceroy, Lord Wavell that Britain could no longer depend on the Indian Armed Forces to perpetuate her hold on India. He had come Page 131 to the conclusion after the Indian National Army trials, which was followed by the Naval Mutiny. ...
... Movement The Sepoy Mutiny and South India The Background For more than 150 years the East India Company (John Company) had raised its own armed forces. The three administrative areas of India, the Presidencies of Bombay, Madras and Bengal, each maintained their own army with its own commander-in-chief. The commander-in-Chief of Bengal was regarded ...
... India's complaint said, "Since the aid which the invaders are receiving from Pakistan is an act of aggression against India, the government of India are entitled, in international law, to send their armed forces across Pakistan territory for dealing effectively with the invaders". The Government of India appealed to the Security Council to ask the Government of Pakistan: To prevent Pakistan Government ...
... opinions on the army, concludes his pensive article on "Pak army vs. Pakistan" with "In the final analysis we would come to know that Pakistan was not at war with India or someone else, but its own armed forces". This is not a country moving towards democracy, but towards anarchy - unfortunately, with American help. Problem is, we've seen this pattern before - the current situation is exactly the same ...
... of the War scenes of Pondicherry come to mind. Here there was no question of volunteers. France has compulsory military training and Frenchmen on attaining the age of eighteen have to join the armed forces and undergo military training for a full period of one or two years. The Renoncants of Pondicherry, that is, those Indians who had secured their full citizenship rights by renouncing their personal ...
... of its passivity and torpor. It could also help to bind the country together. The belief held by our educated elite about British magnanimity and kindness would be dispelled, and even the Indian armed forces would be roused to rebellion. Another thing that our leaders had insufficient knowledge of was the English character and its politics. The British government, though it was imperialist, was quite ...
... shrines which had been built by Narasimhavarman II" (the Pallava monarch of seventh century). Page 119 of food and medicine to the needy and the sick. The king was the leader of the armed forces, true; but he was also the head of State, the fountain of honour, and judge. These kings patronized all creeds. Although favouring their own particular religion, they never sought to impose it on ...
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