If Pakistan had not interfered and tried to fill it with separTist and terrorists we would have kept the article
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If Pakistan had not interfered and tried to fill it with separTist and terrorists we would have kept the article
I think the biggest threat is now to Pakistan Army who had kept the Kashmir pot boiling for 70 years only to see how easily Modi can make PA look irrelevant. Their rip-off of 70 years will now be exposed.
PA's appetite for massive budget share is now going to be questioned by almost every Pakistani. They cannot now escape from internal uprising against the deep state. This is when Doval will go for the kill.
It is only a question of time now when Amit Shah will get Kashmiris to main stream and that will be the last nail in the coffin of Pakistan.
Yes, but its actually really hard to find even 10% reliable Osint accounts of pakistani, so more or less, this is what we have got, if we really want to keep an eye on perception of things from their side.This guy Mystic seems to be super high on Afghan weed
I strongly feel that India should at regular intervals display the slow redrawing of LOC so the orgy of delusional high will bring Pakistanis fall flat on their face. This is what is needed, action and presentation of proofs, and this will slowly get the people on their high and understand the real face of their mard-e-momins. Not sure why we are not ramping up into high gear of asymmetric warfare.
Sabse pehle to start printing fake notes of PKR.
Print more PKR than Pakistan itself prints.
After that we have whole western border of Pakistan.
Asymetrical warfare. Really we should play these dirty games. Its extremely simple to smuggle notes inside Pakistan through the chaotic Durand Line. Afghans would be excited to help us
Right now rupaiyah-e-pakistan is -60%, we can easily take it to -100%
Somebody please track their activities and could give updates about PAF,PA,PN...We can see the bigger picture....Pakistan will now not only cry, but also break its bangles
Any move from their side is welcomed. It will give India full justification to go full throttle and present it as Pakistan's interference in Indian democratic and constitutional process with respect to Kashmir.
Post J&K becoming a UT, India hopes to expedite hydropower projects
3 min read . Updated: 06 Aug 2019, 07:46 AM IST, by Utpal Bhaskar
Hydropower projects. Representative image. Photo: HT
New Delhi : The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is hopeful of expediting strategically important hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir post the scrapping of Article 370 of the Constitution that grants special status to the terror prone state.
This comes in the backdrop of the government stepping up efforts to develop the infrastructure architecture for the state which has witnessed an unprecedented cycle of violence in recent years; event as China is developing the controversial China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), part of its showpiece “One Belt One Road" (OBOR) infrastructure initiative. According to the Indus Water Treaty, whoever builds the project first will have the first rights on the river water.
In addition, state run NHPC Ltd that has been supplying electricity to the state despite unpaid dues of ₹1512 crore is also confident of an early settlement of its bills. Out of a total ₹4438.47 crore owed to publicly listed NHPC, Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corp. Ltd (JKSPDC) alone accounts for more than a third or ₹1512.19 crore. Of these ₹1091 crore has been due to India’s largest hydropower generation utility way past 45 days.
As part of the Union government’s attempt to improve its relations with Jammu and Kashmir, NHPC continues to supply electricity to it, even as the law allows the utilities to regulate or discontinue power supply if dues haven’t been paid.
Referred to as the East India Company in the troubled state, NHPC’s projects have been under the terror threat. NHPC has invested around ₹20,778 crore there over the past four decades. Apart from being the largest investor in the state, NHPC has also paid ₹5387.51 crore to the state towards water usage charges. In addition to supplying 789 MW to the state from its power projects, NHPC also gives 12% free power amounting for Rs4392.84 crore (till December 2018) to the state and 1% free power towards local area development fund.
According to information reviewed by Mint, NHPC plans to develop projects totaling 3814 MW in the state on its own and through joint ventures (JVs) with the state government. These projects include; 800 MW Bursar project, and the 850 MW Ratle project that is to be set up under a joint venture route between the state run firm and the J&K government involving an investment of around ₹6215.61 crore. Also, NHPC is implementing the Pakal Dul (1000 MW), Kiru (624 MW) and Kwar (540 MW) hydropower projects in the state in a joint venture---Chenab Valley Power Projects Pvt. Ltd--- with JKSPDC and the country’s largest electricity trader, PTC India Ltd.
“The dues are pending for a very long time. However, given the sensitivities involved, NHPC continues to supply electricity to J&K," said a senior union government official requesting anonymity.
With J&K defaulting on payments since April 2012, NHPC has also been seeking power ministry’s intervention to facilitate recovery of unpaid dues. There have also been many a times when NHPC withdrew its notice of regulation to suspend electricity supply to the state over unpaid dues.
While Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corp. Ltd (JKSPDC) officials couldn’t be contacted, a NHPC spokesperson didn’t respond to
Mint’s queries on Monday. Queries emailed to the union power ministry spokesperson weren’t immediately answered.
As part of the union government’s playbook in the state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2018 dedicated the NHPC Ltd’s Kishanganga hydro power project to the nation. The 330 MW project on the river Kishanganga, a tributary of Jhelum has significant strategic importance. While Pakistan had challenged the project under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague ruled in India’s favour in 2013.
The Jhelum originates in India and flows into Pakistan. India has also been critical of China developing the CPEC, cutting through Gilgit and Baltistan areas of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). OBOR, first unveiled by Chinese president Xi Jinping in 2013, aims to put billions of dollars in infrastructure projects, including railways, ports and power grids across Asia, Africa and Europe.
The marquee infrastructure projects in Jammu and Kashmir include developing roads totaling 683.31 km in length, with an investment of Rs10,204.45 crore, constructing the marquee 14-km-long Zojila tunnel and the 6.5-km Z-Morh tunnel on Srinagar-Kargil road.
The Rajya Sabha on Monday approved the scrapping of the special status enjoyed by Jammu and Kashmir by passing the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill that seeks to scrap Article 370 and Article 35A in Jammu and Kashmir. The Lok Sabha is to take the bill up today. Once the lower house passes the bill, it will pave the way for bifurcation of the state into two Union territories – Jammu and Kashmir, which will have a legislature, and Ladakh, which will be without a legislature.
Post J&K becoming a UT, India hopes to expedite hydropower projects
3 min read . Updated: 06 Aug 2019, 07:46 AM IST, by Utpal Bhaskar
- NHPC also hopes to recover past dues
- This comes in the backdrop of the government stepping up efforts to develop the infrastructure architecture for J&K
Hydropower projects. Representative image. Photo: HT
New Delhi : The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is hopeful of expediting strategically important hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir post the scrapping of Article 370 of the Constitution that grants special status to the terror prone state.
This comes in the backdrop of the government stepping up efforts to develop the infrastructure architecture for the state which has witnessed an unprecedented cycle of violence in recent years; event as China is developing the controversial China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), part of its showpiece “One Belt One Road" (OBOR) infrastructure initiative. According to the Indus Water Treaty, whoever builds the project first will have the first rights on the river water.
In addition, state run NHPC Ltd that has been supplying electricity to the state despite unpaid dues of ₹1512 crore is also confident of an early settlement of its bills. Out of a total ₹4438.47 crore owed to publicly listed NHPC, Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corp. Ltd (JKSPDC) alone accounts for more than a third or ₹1512.19 crore. Of these ₹1091 crore has been due to India’s largest hydropower generation utility way past 45 days.
As part of the Union government’s attempt to improve its relations with Jammu and Kashmir, NHPC continues to supply electricity to it, even as the law allows the utilities to regulate or discontinue power supply if dues haven’t been paid.
Referred to as the East India Company in the troubled state, NHPC’s projects have been under the terror threat. NHPC has invested around ₹20,778 crore there over the past four decades. Apart from being the largest investor in the state, NHPC has also paid ₹5387.51 crore to the state towards water usage charges. In addition to supplying 789 MW to the state from its power projects, NHPC also gives 12% free power amounting for Rs4392.84 crore (till December 2018) to the state and 1% free power towards local area development fund.
According to information reviewed by Mint, NHPC plans to develop projects totaling 3814 MW in the state on its own and through joint ventures (JVs) with the state government. These projects include; 800 MW Bursar project, and the 850 MW Ratle project that is to be set up under a joint venture route between the state run firm and the J&K government involving an investment of around ₹6215.61 crore. Also, NHPC is implementing the Pakal Dul (1000 MW), Kiru (624 MW) and Kwar (540 MW) hydropower projects in the state in a joint venture---Chenab Valley Power Projects Pvt. Ltd--- with JKSPDC and the country’s largest electricity trader, PTC India Ltd.
“The dues are pending for a very long time. However, given the sensitivities involved, NHPC continues to supply electricity to J&K," said a senior union government official requesting anonymity.
With J&K defaulting on payments since April 2012, NHPC has also been seeking power ministry’s intervention to facilitate recovery of unpaid dues. There have also been many a times when NHPC withdrew its notice of regulation to suspend electricity supply to the state over unpaid dues.
While Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corp. Ltd (JKSPDC) officials couldn’t be contacted, a NHPC spokesperson didn’t respond to
Mint’s queries on Monday. Queries emailed to the union power ministry spokesperson weren’t immediately answered.
As part of the union government’s playbook in the state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2018 dedicated the NHPC Ltd’s Kishanganga hydro power project to the nation. The 330 MW project on the river Kishanganga, a tributary of Jhelum has significant strategic importance. While Pakistan had challenged the project under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague ruled in India’s favour in 2013.
The Jhelum originates in India and flows into Pakistan. India has also been critical of China developing the CPEC, cutting through Gilgit and Baltistan areas of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). OBOR, first unveiled by Chinese president Xi Jinping in 2013, aims to put billions of dollars in infrastructure projects, including railways, ports and power grids across Asia, Africa and Europe.
The marquee infrastructure projects in Jammu and Kashmir include developing roads totaling 683.31 km in length, with an investment of Rs10,204.45 crore, constructing the marquee 14-km-long Zojila tunnel and the 6.5-km Z-Morh tunnel on Srinagar-Kargil road.
The Rajya Sabha on Monday approved the scrapping of the special status enjoyed by Jammu and Kashmir by passing the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill that seeks to scrap Article 370 and Article 35A in Jammu and Kashmir. The Lok Sabha is to take the bill up today. Once the lower house passes the bill, it will pave the way for bifurcation of the state into two Union territories – Jammu and Kashmir, which will have a legislature, and Ladakh, which will be without a legislature.
Post J&K becoming a UT, India hopes to expedite hydropower projects
2,000 sat phones, drones, 35k troops: How PM Modi prepped for Art 370 endgame
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval has landed in Jammu and Kashmir to handle the fallout of the decision to revoke Article 370 and bifurcate the state into two 2 Union Territories
Updated: Aug 06, 2019 08:56 IST
Shishir Gupta
Hindustan Times, New Delhi
The Article 370 endgame that culminated in home minister Amit Shah’s historic statement in Parliament started playing out as recently as July (PTI)
Around eight hours after the historic resolutions scrapping special status to Jammu & Kashmir were introduced in the Rajya Sabha, they were passed. By then, national security adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval was already in Srinagar, overseeing the transition of the state into a Union Territory.
The revoking of Article 370 and Article 35A that gave special status to the state, and special privileges to its permanent residents, may have been a long-standing objective of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and before that, its precursor, the Jana Sangh, but the endgame that culminated in home minister Amit Shah’s historic statement in Parliament started playing out as recently as July 5, HT has learnt as it tried to piece together the timeline from conversations with the few people aware of at least some of the details. Only a handful are believed to have been in the know of the entire plan.
On July 5, the Research and Analysis Wing’s new chief Samant Goel called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the PMO. In the course of the conversation, Goel mentioned to the PM that India perhaps had a month to fully integrate Kashmir with itself. After that, the spy agency chief warned, things could spin out of control: the US would fully engage with Pakistan to strike a deal with the Taliban over Afghanistan, key to its exit from the country. That, Goel warned, could result in a deal between the US and the Pakistan-supported Taliban by September 1 following which Washington could choose to reward Islamabad for its role with the resumption of military and economic aid. That could see an intensification of Islamabad’s direct and indirect sponsorship of terror groups operating in Kashmir.
For New Delhi, already aware of this threat, Pakistan premier Imran Khan’s visit to Washington on July 22 came as further reinforcement of its assessment that US President Donald Trump desperately wanted out of Afghanistan; Trump made an offer to mediate between India and Pakistan, much to the delight of Khan.
Long before that, even ahead of Goel’s meeting, the BJP’s top team, including legal experts (former finance minister Arun Jaitley is believed to be one), had come around to the legal view that Article 370 could be done away with a Presidential order, especially if the state administration was under the Governor.
According to senior BJP functionaries, preparations for scrapping Article 370 began simultaneously with the drafting of the manifesto for the 2019 general elections.
The functionaries added that the finalisation of the resolutions and bills that were passed on Monday sped up after the Lok Sabha results were announced, with the massive mandate it received (303 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha) giving the party confidence that it could fulfil one of its poll promises.
The demand has also consistently been raised by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of the BJP, which perceived these articles as an impediment in the integration of Jammu and Kashmir with the rest of India.
Things started gathering momentum after Shah’s visit to Srinagar on June 26 along with the director of the Intelligence Bureau Arvind Kumar and home secretary Rajiv Gauba.
While there was total agreement within the national security establishment that these articles should be scrapped, internal security agencies had flagged concerns over the possibility of violence in the Valley. However, the government decided to go ahead after factoring in inputs from RAW chief Goel’s July 11 visit and NSA Doval’s July 23 one to the Valley. Significantly, army chief General Bipin Rawat visited the Valley in June as well as in July to keep his army commanders on their toes. Doval also held a meeting with the three military and the three intelligence chiefs (including NTRO) on July 24 in this context.
It isn’t clear when the final decision was taken, but once it was – presumably sometime within the last fortnight, according to people familiar with the matter – things started moving rapidly. There is a theory that the Opposition’s capitulation in the Rajya Sabha , where the BJP isn’t in a majority, may have given the latter the confidence to push ahead.
Last week, the home ministry sent 2,000 satellite phones to the J&K administration in the event of phones and internet not functioning. Internet services in the Valley were cut off on Sunday night, and mobile and phone services soon after.
Over the past 10 days, as many as 350 companies of paramilitary forces -- 35,000 men -- were moved to the state, particularly the Valley.
Around the same time, the last week of July, the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO)’s high altitude long-endurance Israeli Heron drones were sent across the Pir Panjal for crowd control. Military aircraft flew dozens of sorties flying relief supplies including food, water and medicines into the Valley.
By Friday last week, the buzz over the scrapping of 35A (370 was never mentioned) had intensified, especially after the Amarnath yatra was called off, and tourists asked to leave the Valley.
On the evening of August 4, with speculation peaking, Shah called up the RAW chief Goel and IB chief Kumar and told them to be ready – perhaps the first time the national security establishment realised that the Modi government was going to announce scrapping of article 35A and 370 in Parliament on Monday.
Interestingly, the much-talked about meeting Shah called earlier in the day was to discuss the situation in the North-east.
External affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was also kept in the loop so as to deal with the diplomatic fallout of the move.
Fearing that Pakistan’s spy agency Inter Services Intelligence and jihadists in the Valley could target local leaders and blame New Delhi for it, a decision was taken to keep all of the Valley’s political leaders under house arrest from midnight Sunday. Curfew was imposed, as was Section 144. Paramilitary forces were also sensitised to display restraint and not be provoked into firing into unruly crowds; the fear in New Delhi is that Pakistan could instigate them through supporters in the Valley.
The timing of Monday’s move, 10 days ahead of India’s Independence day on August 15 is significant but a BJP functionary played it down.
“This was the first session of Parliament after the elections and if not now, then when?”
(With additional inputs by Smriti Kak Ramachandran)
2,000 sat phones, drones, 35k troops: How PM Modi prepped for Art 370 endgame
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval has landed in Jammu and Kashmir to handle the fallout of the decision to revoke Article 370 and bifurcate the state into two 2 Union Territories
Updated: Aug 06, 2019 08:56 IST
Shishir Gupta
Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Around eight hours after the historic resolutions scrapping special status to Jammu & Kashmir were introduced in the Rajya Sabha, they were passed. By then, national security adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval was already in Srinagar, overseeing the transition of the state into a Union Territory.
The revoking of Article 370 and Article 35A that gave special status to the state, and special privileges to its permanent residents, may have been a long-standing objective of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and before that, its precursor, the Jana Sangh, but the endgame that culminated in home minister Amit Shah’s historic statement in Parliament started playing out as recently as July 5, HT has learnt as it tried to piece together the timeline from conversations with the few people aware of at least some of the details. Only a handful are believed to have been in the know of the entire plan.
On July 5, the Research and Analysis Wing’s new chief Samant Goel called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the PMO. In the course of the conversation, Goel mentioned to the PM that India perhaps had a month to fully integrate Kashmir with itself. After that, the spy agency chief warned, things could spin out of control: the US would fully engage with Pakistan to strike a deal with the Taliban over Afghanistan, key to its exit from the country. That, Goel warned, could result in a deal between the US and the Pakistan-supported Taliban by September 1 following which Washington could choose to reward Islamabad for its role with the resumption of military and economic aid. That could see an intensification of Islamabad’s direct and indirect sponsorship of terror groups operating in Kashmir.
For New Delhi, already aware of this threat, Pakistan premier Imran Khan’s visit to Washington on July 22 came as further reinforcement of its assessment that US President Donald Trump desperately wanted out of Afghanistan; Trump made an offer to mediate between India and Pakistan, much to the delight of Khan.
Long before that, even ahead of Goel’s meeting, the BJP’s top team, including legal experts (former finance minister Arun Jaitley is believed to be one), had come around to the legal view that Article 370 could be done away with a Presidential order, especially if the state administration was under the Governor.
According to senior BJP functionaries, preparations for scrapping Article 370 began simultaneously with the drafting of the manifesto for the 2019 general elections.
The functionaries added that the finalisation of the resolutions and bills that were passed on Monday sped up after the Lok Sabha results were announced, with the massive mandate it received (303 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha) giving the party confidence that it could fulfil one of its poll promises.
The demand has also consistently been raised by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of the BJP, which perceived these articles as an impediment in the integration of Jammu and Kashmir with the rest of India.
Things started gathering momentum after Shah’s visit to Srinagar on June 26 along with the director of the Intelligence Bureau Arvind Kumar and home secretary Rajiv Gauba.
While there was total agreement within the national security establishment that these articles should be scrapped, internal security agencies had flagged concerns over the possibility of violence in the Valley. However, the government decided to go ahead after factoring in inputs from RAW chief Goel’s July 11 visit and NSA Doval’s July 23 one to the Valley. Significantly, army chief General Bipin Rawat visited the Valley in June as well as in July to keep his army commanders on their toes. Doval also held a meeting with the three military and the three intelligence chiefs (including NTRO) on July 24 in this context.
It isn’t clear when the final decision was taken, but once it was – presumably sometime within the last fortnight, according to people familiar with the matter – things started moving rapidly. There is a theory that the Opposition’s capitulation in the Rajya Sabha , where the BJP isn’t in a majority, may have given the latter the confidence to push ahead.
Last week, the home ministry sent 2,000 satellite phones to the J&K administration in the event of phones and internet not functioning. Internet services in the Valley were cut off on Sunday night, and mobile and phone services soon after.
Over the past 10 days, as many as 350 companies of paramilitary forces -- 35,000 men -- were moved to the state, particularly the Valley.
Around the same time, the last week of July, the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO)’s high altitude long-endurance Israeli Heron drones were sent across the Pir Panjal for crowd control. Military aircraft flew dozens of sorties flying relief supplies including food, water and medicines into the Valley.
By Friday last week, the buzz over the scrapping of 35A (370 was never mentioned) had intensified, especially after the Amarnath yatra was called off, and tourists asked to leave the Valley.
On the evening of August 4, with speculation peaking, Shah called up the RAW chief Goel and IB chief Kumar and told them to be ready – perhaps the first time the national security establishment realised that the Modi government was going to announce scrapping of article 35A and 370 in Parliament on Monday.
Interestingly, the much-talked about meeting Shah called earlier in the day was to discuss the situation in the North-east.
External affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was also kept in the loop so as to deal with the diplomatic fallout of the move.
Fearing that Pakistan’s spy agency Inter Services Intelligence and jihadists in the Valley could target local leaders and blame New Delhi for it, a decision was taken to keep all of the Valley’s political leaders under house arrest from midnight Sunday. Curfew was imposed, as was Section 144. Paramilitary forces were also sensitised to display restraint and not be provoked into firing into unruly crowds; the fear in New Delhi is that Pakistan could instigate them through supporters in the Valley.
The timing of Monday’s move, 10 days ahead of India’s Independence day on August 15 is significant but a BJP functionary played it down.
“This was the first session of Parliament after the elections and if not now, then when?”
(With additional inputs by Smriti Kak Ramachandran)
2,000 sat phones, drones, 35k troops: How PM Modi prepped for Art 370 endgame
