Indian Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), continues to falter even after 25 years

By: RupeeNews

Heard the one about the Kevari and the Tejas.

• Why is it so windy in Delhi? The failed Kevari engine sucks.
• Whats that hicky doing on your neck. Oh! thats from the Tejas that sucks.
• What can move faster than the LCA on the airport. A snail.

Tejas: The ultimate dud

India’s indigenous Tejas is plane under perpetual development. This “plane” has had the longest development cycle of any train, plane or automobile in the history of world. After a decade of false starts, abject failures, the Tejas remains a but of jokes among the engineers, journalists and scientists in the aviation industry. Indian Airforce crying wolf? or facing shortage of jets?

Bharat’s LCA program had the following two objectives.

1. The LCA programme was launched in 1983 for two primary purposes. The principal and most obvious goal was the development of a replacement aircraft for India’s ageing Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (NATO reporting name ‘Fishbed’) fighters. The MiG-21 has been the mainstay of the Indian Air Force since the 1970s, but the initial examples were nearly 20 years old by 1983. The “Long Term Re-Equipment Plan 1981″ noted that the MiG-21’s would be approaching the end of their service lives by the mid-1990s, and that by 1995 the IAF would lack 40% of the aircraft needed to fill its projected force structure requirements.^{[7] ((15 August 2006). Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA). Global Security. Retrieved 25 August 2006.)}
2. The LCA programme’s other main objective was to serve as the vehicle for an across-the-board advancement of India’s domestic aerospace industry. Sukumar R. (March-April 2001). LCA: Impact on Indian Defense. Bharat Rakshak Monitor.

On both these counts, the Tejas has been a colossal failure. The Tejas has been unable to replace the “Flying Coffins” which are still flying and the Tejas has been unable to create a domestic aircraft industry. The recent tender for $10 Billion for planes is a testimonial to the abject failure of the Tejas.

The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) program began in 1983 out of the rising need to replace the MiG-21s, which even then were becoming obsolete but still constituted the most numerous type of aircraft in the Indian Air Force’s inventory. By 1990, the design for a new plane was finalized, with the aircraft adopting a cranked delta wing and tailless configuration powered by a single turbofan engine.

Five years later the designated manufacturer, Hindustan Aeronautical (HAL), unveiled two prototypes. However, because of difficulties with its flight-control system, the aircraft’s first test flight was delayed another five years, until January 2001. Since then, two more prototypes have been produced, with a naval variant currently undergoing development.

Yet more than two decades since its conception, the Tejas has yet to reach production status. Instead, it continues to perform endless flight tests. Difficulties with flight controls were eventually resolved, but its power plant, the indigenous Kaveri engine, continues to be plagued with technical difficulties, the worst of which was the collapse of the engine during high-altitude tests performed at a Russian base in 2004. Asia Times. Anyone want an obsolete Indian fighter? By David Nguyen

This above excepts was taken from an article written in the Asia Times two years ago. Nothing has changed. Unable to build aircraft, Delhi splurges on planes it can ill afford

The Times of India report personifies the incompetence, inefficiency of another Delhi dud. Most countries are able to design new planes in a abut four years. It has taken India 25 years, and it still doesn’t have a plane that flies. The Tejas was supposed to have replaced the Mig 21s, 20 years ago. After 25 years of development Delhi has nothing to show for it. Tejas 1983: A dismal failure which became obsolete in the design phase

Tejas is a tailless single-engine supersonic fighter with delta wings—shaped like a triangle—which uses fly-by-wire technology that enables pilots to control the plane electronically through on-board computers.

The plane is undergoing development trials with a GE 404 engine, but this falls short of the thrust it requires in operational conditions. Live Mint

The Tejas’s current GE F404-IN20 falls short of delivering the 20,000lb (90kN) output required to meet the operational requirements of the Indian air force. The service recently rejected a proposal under which a Western supplier would have helped complete the development of the Gas Turbine Research Establishment’s indigenous Kaveri. Flights Global

After two and a half decade, the Indian Air Force still hasn’t been able to decide on which engine the plane will run on. Attemps to modify Russian engines have failed miserable. Unmitigated failure: Indian Tejas scrapped. New Snecma plane?

NEW DELHI: India’s quest to develop its own multi-role supersonic fighter, the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), continues to falter even after 25 years. Its heart also needs a foreign transplant surgery now to function properly.

The defence ministry has asked two leading aeroengine manufacturers, General Electric (US) and Eurojet Turbo GmbH, to submit their bids within three months to supply 99 engines, with an option for 49 more, for the Mark-II version of Tejas.

With GE F-414 INS5 and EJ-200 being the engines in contention, eight will be bought off-the-shelf, while the other 91 will be manufactured in India under transfer of technology in an estimated $600 million contract.

This comes after the indigenous Kaveri engine failed to pass muster even after two decades of development at a cost of Rs 2,839 crore. While the first 20 Tejas will be powered by GE-404 engines, the next six Tejas Mark-II squadrons (16-18 jets in each) will have the new more powerful engines.

Sounding the death knell for Kaveri, IAF has shot down the offer of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to co-develop and co-produce the “90kN thrust class of upgraded Kaveri engine” with French company Snecma to meet Tejas’ operational requirements, defence minister A K Antony told Parliament on Monday.

DRDO contended the modified Kaveri engine would provide “comparable thrust throughout the flight envelope of Tejas”. Moreover, it would require minimum changes in airframe to integrate this engine without affecting the weight and configuration of the single-seater fighter.

“IAF, however, has suggested a proven engine that is already in production and flight-worthy for meeting immediate requirements. The RFP (request for proposal) has been issued to reputed engine manufacturers,” said Antony.

Now, once again, the Indian Defense Department is changing its mind and thinking of a new engine. Delhi is now ordering 99 new engines from General Electric. The problem with the GE F-414 engines is as it has always been. It is not compatiable with the Tejas structure. The GE F-414 engine will be trying to fly a plane which is 25 years old.

Another slight problem. All dressed up and no where to got. There are no suctomers for the Tejas which will begin flight test in 2012. IAF, incidentally, has ordered only 20 Tejas till now, apprehensive as it is of its capabilities since the fighter’s final operational clearance (FOC) will come only in December 2012 at the earliest.

Incidentally, the GE-414 and EJ-200 engines power the American F/A-18 and Eurofighter, respectively, two of the six jets in the race to bag IAF’s $10.4 billion project to acquire 126 “medium” multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA).

IAF, incidentally, has ordered only 20 Tejas till now, apprehensive as it is of its capabilities since the fighter’s final operational clearance (FOC) will come only in December 2012 at the earliest.

Antony declared that high-level reviews of the Tejas project were being conducted regularly by IAF chief and deputy chief to ensure it’s completed in time.

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Aeronautical Development Agency and DRDO have, of course, faced a lot of flak for the huge delays.

Initiated as far back as 1983 at a cost of Rs 560 crore to replace ageing MiG-21s, the LCA project costs have now jumped to Rs 5,489 crore. The figure may well cross the Rs 10,000-crore mark by the time the fighter is fully ready.

IAF is certainly keeping its fingers crossed, grappling as it is with a depleting number of fighter squadrons, down to just 32 from a sanctioned strength of 39.5.

The force is banking upon the “air dominance” Sukhoi-30MKI fighters, with 230 of them being contracted from Russia in deals worth around $8.5 billion, to fulfil its need for “heavy-weight” fighters. The MMRCA will take care of the medium-weight category. Tejas, in turn, is slated to plug the light-weight fighter gap in the combat fleet. Times of India. ‘Indigenous’ Tejas fighter to get ‘foreign’ engines for power Rajat Pandit , TNN 4 August 2009, 04:00am IST. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Indigenous-Tejas-fighter-to-get-foreign-engines-for-power/articleshow/4853479.cms

Tejas, which in Sanskrit means radiance, first flew in January 2001. Since then, test pilots have flown nearly 1,150 sorties on seven Tejas jets. The aircraft needs to complete 400 more flights by 2010 for an initial operational clearance (IOC), the minimum standard set for the plane, said Subramanyam.

“Tejas is approaching IOC. It is (the) right time for (taking a) final call on the engine,” said Saxena, a former managing director of HAL’s Bangalore complex, where Tejas is being produced.

ADA is also designing a naval version and a twin-seater trainer version of Tejas, said Subramanyam. “The (Tejas) programme has a very good (defined) road map—up to 2018. Funds are coming,” he said. Live Mint

If India had been able to produce the Tejas there was no need to purchase the Gripen for which it has floated a tender for $10 Billion

When completed, the Tejas will be comparable to the Gripen in its capabilities. But the Gripen has been operating in Swedish squadrons for nearly a decade and has already seen a new upgraded variant, the Gripen-C, being produced. Similarly, another light combat aircraft, the F-16, has been in service for nearly three decades while offering similar capabilities and numerous upgraded variants.

The capabilities the Tejas offers do not provide anything new or significant over existing light fighters that have already been flying in foreign air forces for years. In short, it is already obsolete. Asia Times. Anyone want an obsolete Indian fighter? By David Nguyen

The original plan to indigenously build an engine by HAL and other companies ended is unmitigated failures.

The recent news stories on the Kaveri engine setback should prompt some introspection – Is the Tejas going the Marut way? Will it be rammed down the IAF’s throat by the Defense Research Establishment just as the Marut was nearly 40 years ago? Doing so may serve national pride but it will certainly not serve national defense.

Pressure is being brought on the IAF to commit in large numbers to the Tejas. What does the IAF really know about Tejas that will enthuse it to commit to it? The fact that it uses FBW technology? That is history…40 years old history. Besides, it is not FBW that combat pilot seek it is maneuverability that comes from it. Or better still the super maneuverability that comes from thrust vectoring and extremely high thrust to weight ratios. In addition our pilots need stealth. They do not want to be knocked out of the skies by BVR missiles that are now widely available. The Tejas has very little to offer in the areas of high thrust to weight ratios, thrust vectoring and stealth.

Clearly ADA has taken too long to develop the Tejas. A 20 years lead time to develop a fighter aircraft is unrealistic. I have seen attempts to refute this contention through suggestions that the F-22 Raptor too has not yet been inducted in large numbers by the USAF despite having taken to the skies over a decade back. However, such suggestions are misleading. Delay in the induction of the Raptor are due to the fact that the US Congress is not yet convinced that the threat that the Raptor is designed to address really exists. In the case of the IAF, the threat that the LCA was conceived to address existed right through the 80s and 90s. However, the LCA remained on the drawing boards and consequently the threat was never addressed. Five years from now, if the LCA is indeed available for induction, the type of threat that the IAF will face is not something that the Tejas was conceived to address.

Tejas 1983: A dismal failure which became obsolete in the design phase

Gender Murder in India, 50 Million Girls and Women Killed Before and After Birth

Whatis is about Hinduism that compels rich and poor Hindus to kill their daughters? Why is it that Muslims and Christians in India are not as susceptible to the same practices? Some argue that it is the Hindu scriptures that direct such practices.

• “Killing of a woman, a Shudra or an atheist is not sinful. Woman is an embodiment of the worst desires, hatred, deceit, jealousy and bad character. Women should never be given freedom.” Bhagvad Gita (Manu IX. 17 and V. 47, 147)”

• Similarly another holy script of Hindu religious book preaches looking down upon women by terming a woman equal to a dog, crow and shudra (a low cast poor Hindu who has no rights in Hindu society).

• “And whilst not coming into contact with Sudras and remains of food; for this Gharma is he that shines yonder, and he is excellence, truth, and light; but woman, the Sudra, the dog, and the black bird (the crow), are untruth: he should not look at these, lest he should mingle excellence and sin, light and darkness, truth and untruth.” – Satapatha Brahmana 14:1:1:31.

Women harassed in “Incredible India”: Female genocide-Persistent ogling, heckling by Indian men. GENDER MURDER:-10 million baby girls killed before & after birth: Female gender genocide is destroying male female ratio in India. The tragedy of the unborn in India is a holocaust of catastrophic proportions. The murder of girl babies right after birth is the silent plague of our times and has to be stopped. A country that spends billions on arms cannot stop the barbaric practices of widow burning? The silent scream of the girls and women in India are drowned out by song and dance of Bollywood. The shrieks of the baby girls who are fed pesticide or simply strangled are not heard by the Western media that is bent upon portraying a false picture of modernity and power. Hiding the truth about Bharat serves the purposes of the new “East India Company”. Those who hide the truth are complicit in this murder. The world has to speak up against the genocide.

A study of Tamil Nadu by the Community Service Guild of Madras similarly found that “female infanticide is rampant” in the state, though only among Hindu (rather than Moslem or Christian) families.

John-Thor Dahlburgpoints out, “in rural India, the centuries-old practice of female infanticide can still be considered a wise course of action.” (Dahlburg, “Where killing baby girls ‘is no big sin’,” The Los Angeles Times [in The Toronto Star, February 28, 1994.])

There are 50 million stories  about the brutal practice of girl infanticide. The strange thing about it is that the culling of baby girls is prevalent in Hindu families and not Christian or Muslim families. The murder of baby girls right before and after birth spreads across the spectrum–rich Brahmans to poor Khasatriyas etc. The female genocide goes on in rural as well as urban Hinduism. If baby girls finally are able to survive andgrow up, they are virtualslaves in rural Bharat. If the husbanddies, they are supposed to die on the funeralpyre with the husband. In rural Bharat–far from the maddening red light districts of Mumbai andDelhi, if the poor widow survives her husband, she is incarcerated in temples to be sold as prostitutes.

“There is a little-known battle for survival going in some parts of the world. Those at risk are baby girls, and the casualties are in the millions each year. The weapons being used against them are prenatal sex selection, abortion and female infanticide – the systematic killing of girls soon after they are born.”

The imbalances are also giving rise to a commercial sex trade; the 2005 report states that up to 800,000 people being trafficked across borders each year, and as many as 80 percent are women and girls, most of whom are exploited.

Indian Hindus abort their daughters, kill them at birth, or setfire to them when the husband dies. Surviving widows are incarcerated in temples as prositutes

Bharat is fast becoming the land of the boys. The infanticide of girls is changing the male female ratio and many males are without wives. Despite the shortage of women the infanticide goes on.

John Thor-Dahlburgnotes that “In Jaipur, capital of the western state of Rajasthan, prenatal sex determination tests result in an estimated 3,500 abortions of female fetuses annually,” according to a medical-college study. (Dahlburg, “Where killing baby girls ‘is no big sin’.”) Most strikingly, according to UNICEF, “A report from Bombay in 1984 on abortions after prenatal sex determination stated that 7,999 out of 8,000 of the aborted fetuses were females. Sex determination has become a lucrative business.”(Zeng Yi et al., “Causes and Implications of the Recent Increase in the Reported Sex Ratio at Birth in China,” Population and Development Review, 19: 2 [June 1993], p. 297.)

GENDER MURDER IN INDIA:-50 million baby girls killed before and after birth

• INDIA 1990: 25 million more males than females in India.

• INDIA 2001: The male female gender gap had risen to 35 million.

• INDIA Now 50 million. 51 districts in India now have more male babies born compared to female, according to UNICEF. “In 80 per cent of districts in India, the situation is getting worse“.

• According to a recent United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) State of the World Population Report, these practices, combined with neglect, have resulted in at least 50 million “missing” girls in India

• As John-Thor Dahlburgpoints out, “in rural India, the centuries-old practice of female infanticide can still be considered a wise course of action.” (Dahlburg, “Where killing baby girls ‘is no big sin’,” The Los Angeles Times [in The Toronto Star, February 28, 1994.])

Abortion, Female Infanticide, Foeticide, Son preference in India. India’s female to male ratio is 100 males to 93 females compared to a world average of 100 males to 105 females.

Tradition and religious edict in Hindu culture demands that the widow be burnt on the funeral pyre of the husband. The seminal film “Water” sheds light on the plight of Women and “White Widows” in which Depa Mehta sheds light on the issue of surviving widows in “India”. These “White Widows” are only allowed to wear “white” (hence the term “White Widows”) and are considered cursed and jinxed. They are ostracized from society and cannot live with any of the surviving relatives. In rare cases where the “White Widow” lives with the relatives, her life is worse than that of the slave. Dehumanized she is relegated to menial jobs, worse off than indentured servants, the “White Widow” is made to suffer a life of invisibility. Even her shadow is considered cursed.

According to a recent report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) up to 50 million girls and women are missing from India’ s population as a result of systematic gender discrimination in India. In most countries in the world, there are approximately 105 female births for every 100 males.

In India, there are less than 93 women for every 100 men in the population. The accepted reason for such a disparity is the practice of female infanticide in India, prompted by the existence of a dowry system which requires the family to pay out a great deal of money when a female child is married. For a poor family, the birth of a girl child can signal the beginning of financial ruin and extreme hardship.

However this anti-female bias is by no means limited to poor families. Much of the discrimination is to do with cultural beliefs and social norms. These norms themselves must be challenged if this practice is to stop.

Diagnostic teams with ultrasound scanners which detect the sex of a child advertise with catchlines such as spend 600 rupees now and save 50,000 rupees later.

The implication is that by avoiding a girl, a family will avoid paying a large dowry on the marriage of her daughter. According to UNICEF, the problem is getting worse as scientific methods of detecting the sex of a baby and of performing abortions are improving.

These methods are becoming increasing available in rural areas of India, fuelling fears that the trend towards the abortion of female foetuses is on the increase

Women harassed in “Incredible India”: Female genocide-Persistent ogling, heckling by Indian men. GENDER MURDER:-10 million baby girls killed before & after birth: Female gender genocide is destroying male female ratio in India

Deepak Mehta shows the plight of one woman–a story which personifies the neglect which according to her is faced by 50 million other Indian women. Mehta shows the reality of India in which millions of these “White Widows” are incarcerated in temples and then sold as prostitutes to keep their upkeep.

Deepak Mehta’s Canadian film was banned in many parts of India
The discrimination is not limited to unborn or recently born females in India. When a husband dies, the widow is supposed to die with her. Millions follow this tradition every year. Thousands are burnt alive against their will. Hundreds survive and show up in Trauma Centers in the cities. Many are never heard of in the villages. Deepak Mehta has personified these stories on film. All her films are banned in India and her life has been threatened.

As John-Thor Dahlburgpoints out, “in rural India, the centuries-old practice of female infanticide can still be considered a wise course of action.” (Dahlburg, “Where killing baby girls ‘is no big sin’,” The Los Angeles Times [in The Toronto Star, February 28, 1994.]) According to census statistics, “From 972 females for every 1,000 males in 1901 … the gender imbalance has tilted to 929 females per 1,000 males. … In the nearly 300 poor hamlets of the Usilampatti area of Tamil Nadu [state], as many as 196 girls died under suspicious circumstances [in 1993] … Some were fed dry, unhulled rice that punctured their windpipes, or were made to swallow poisonous powdered fertilizer. Others were smothered with a wet towel, strangled or allowed to starve to death.” Dahlburg profiles one disturbing case from Tamil Nadu:

Lakshmi already had one daughter, so when she gave birth to a secondgirl, she killed her. For the three days of her second child’s short life, Lakshmi admits, she refused to nurse her. To silence the infant’s famished cries, the impoverished village woman squeezed the milky sap from an oleander shrub, mixed it with castor oil, and forced the poisonous potion down the newborn’s throat. The baby bled from the nose, then died soon afterward. Female neighbors buried her in a small hole near Lakshmi’s square thatched hut of sunbaked mud. They sympathized with Lakshmi, and in the same circumstances, some would probably have done what she did. For despite the risk of execution by hanging and about 16 months of a much-ballyhooed government scheme to assist families with daughters, in some hamlets of … Tamil Nadu, murdering girls is still sometimes believed to be a wiser course than raising them. “A daughter is always liabilities. How can I bring up a second?” Lakshmi, 28, answered firmly when asked by a visitor how she could have taken her own child’s life eight years ago. “Instead of her suffering the way I do, I thought it was better to get rid of her.” (All quotes from Dahlburg, “Where killing baby girls ‘is no big sin’.”)

A study of Tamil Nadu by the Community Service Guild of Madras similarly found that “female infanticide is rampant” in the state, though only among Hindu (rather than Moslem or Christian) families. “Of the 1,250 families covered by the study, 740 had only one girl child and 249 agreed directly that they had done away with the unwanted girl child. More than 213 of the families had more than one male child whereas half the respondents had only one daughter.” (Malavika Karlekar, “The girl child in India: does she have any rights?,” Canadian Woman Studies, March 1995.)

The bias against females in India is related to the fact that “Sons are called upon to provide the income; they are the ones who do most of the work in the fields. In this way sons are looked to as a type of insurance. With this perspective, it becomes clearer that the high value given to males decreases the value given to females.” (Marina Porras, “Female Infanticide and Foeticide”.) The problem is also intimately tied to the institution of dowry, in which the family of a prospective bride must pay enormous sums of money to the family in which the woman will live after marriage. Though formally outlawed, the institution is still pervasive. “The combination of dowry andwedding expenses usually add up to more than a million rupees ([US] $35,000). In India the average civil servant earns about 100,000 rupees ($3,500) a year. Given these figures combined with the low status of women, it seems not so illogical that the poorer Indian families would want only male children.” (Porras, “Female Infanticide and Foeticide”.) Murders of women whose families are deemed to have paid insufficient dowry have become increasingly common, and receive separate case-study treatment on this site.Gendercide

India as World Power 1

Extremist Hindus show power using the Swastika in triple entendre–as an ancient Hindu symbol, reverence for Hitler and sign of Anti-Western Indian power

• Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, .. the country also has three Nigerias with

• that there are still close to 800 million people in India who live on less than $2 a day (Fareed Zakaria)

• “What you see issue after issue, state after state is that powerful [special interest groups] … landed interests have been able to capture the political system and extract government benefits for themselves [by way of] subsidies, etc,” (Fareed Zakaria)

• “It is a great shame… The large majority of people have somehow slipped though the cracks. So you see that India does worse than Bangladesh, worse than Cuba, worse than Syria, on all these measures. It does worse than many other countries that have lower per capita GDP [gross domestic product] than India has…(Fareed Zakaria)

• one has to ask oneself that if the country does not make significant investments in education and healthcare…(Fareed Zakaria)

• All this sounds very gloomy…(Fareed Zakaria)

Moin Ansari

Establish Palestine & Disarm Fascist Israel!

By: Dail.pk

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US President Obama has been pushing for a comprehensive Middle East peace deal and asking the Zionist regime to stop settlements and remove them to be able to establish much delayed Palestine state. Relations between the two allies have soured in recent weeks over US demands that the settlement construction halt. But an adamant Israel tries for locating excuses to prolong the issue and kill more Palestinians at a time when US-led NATO terror forces are murder ring Muslims in Islamic world. Tel Aviv expects Washington to understand the truth that both are partners in holocaust of Muslims globally along with another military-strategic partner Hindu India.Although the Israelis are reluctant to agree to demands that they stop settlement building, there expect a US compromise brewing whereby the Israelis insisting on finishing the building of 2,000 new apartments a short distance inside the West Bank, but freeze all other construction. That means no progress in the talks.
The US appears to be making a major diplomatic push in pursuit of a comprehensive Middle East peace deal. Defence Secretary Robert Gates is in Iraq after stops in Israel and Jordan and President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser James Jones and veteran diplomat Dennis Ross are also to arrive in the region to join the effort. In earlier meetings in the region, US Mideast envoy George Mitchell urged all countries to make the difficult choices needed for peace. That includes between Israel and Palestinians, between Syrians and Israelis, between Israel and Lebanon and the normalization of relations between Israel and all of the countries in the region. envoy George Mitchell and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu say talks about reviving the regional peace process have made “good progress”. True to their Zionist ideology, the Israeli leadership keeps shifting their position on settlement issue.

Israel is knwon for double talks. There is no mention of Israel agreeing to halt settlement construction, a key demand the US has made of its ally. Netanyahu has previously rejected such a freeze, saying “natural growth” of settlements must be allowed. Earlier, he told Israeli President Shimon Peres that Israel could improve the climate by “dealing with difficult issues like settlements and outposts”. Israeli arrogance and tyrance stem from the support from the Western powers and the lucratice arms trade with thrid world coutnries like India.

Israel decides the fate of Palestinians and not the Arabs or other Muslims; the USA understands it too plys seocnd fiddle to the terrorist Israel that has annexed the Palestilne lands. Israel always has found or manufactured reasons to stall the peace process and deny the defenseless Palestinians their right to live and establish their own state/ Now that Hamas has stopped playing with toy missiles at times falling into the Zionist territories, Israel has been trying to respect some other reasons to stay on the occupied Palestine. Now it cunningly says Iran has to stop its legitimate nuclear work but refuses to declare itself a nuclear free state by destroying all nukes it possesses now acquired with help form the Western powers.

The neo-imperialists and coloniaalisms are good at diverting the world attention by raking up non-ssies and confuse the world. Israeli officials have said military action remains an option on Iran. In Israel, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said recent US overtures to Tehran were “not open-ended”. Despite the US concern for movement on an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, Israel says its number one priority remains Iran’s nuclear program. Thus the US-Israeli gamble goes on. Only Obama could reset the priorities and policies to make the world safe from state rogues and fascists.

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In spite of international outcry over holocaust in Palestime, Zionist fascists remian unpunished for their holocasut crimes in Palestine for decades and the USA, EU, UN, UNEC or ICJ has not yet come upp with meassures to clip the military power of fascist Israel. As predicted by international community which severely criticized the war and its conduct, the Israeli government has said that the Israeli military campaign in Gaza earlier this year was “necessary and proportionate”. According to the United Nations, the Israeli military campaign left more than 50,000 homes, 800 industrial properties and 200 schools damaged or destroyed, as well as 39 mosques and two churches. 1,400 Gazans died in the conflict, only thirteen Israeli died in Zionist fascist attack on Palestine on the eve of the Israeli poll which became difficult for the ruing coalition against hawkish Likud party. BY accusing and provoking the ruing dispensation to invade Palestine, former Israeli PM hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly ahead of the Kadima ruing party’s Livni. Hence the Ehud Olmert regime tries to outwit opposition by terror attacking Palestine killing thousands of innocent Palestinians, including children and women and old people. Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed or wounded by white phosphorus shells.

Although no special tribunals have been set up for trials, there is some ray of hope that Israeli criminals would be borught to justice. The UN Human Rights Council has appointed former South African judge Richard Goldstone to investigate whether war crimes were committed during the conflict. Israel has declined to co-operate, accusing the UN Human Rights Council of bias against it. The conflict lasted for 22 days, ending on 18 January. Allegations persist against the Israeli military about killings of unarmed civilians, the use of civilians as human shields and indiscriminate destruction of property.

Iraeli leaders also bluffs that humanitarian aid was allowed into Gaza throughout the conflict, though the opposite was correct. But Netanyahu said they were making progress “toward achieving the understanding that will enable us to continue and complete the peace process established between us and Palestinian neighbours and the countries in the entire region”. “We look forward to continuing our discussions to reach a point that we can all move forward to reach a comprehensive peace,” he said. What the Obama administration understands by “good progress” should be made clear to the world.

The Palestinians have said all Israeli settlement building on occupied territory must cease before any worthwhile talks can resume.

Palestinians have said it was not safe to leave their homes to try to escape fighting and shelling, that they were unable to access the humanitarian aid. UN considers a threat to the world body the damage caused to UN facilities by Israeli strikes. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat accused Israel of failing “to fulfill any of its roadmap obligations, including a settlement freeze, the reopening of Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem, removal of outposts, the release of Palestinian prisoners”. Mitchell said the Palestinians should “take action against incitement and… refrain from any words or deeds that may make it more difficult to move quickly toward successful negotiations”. The Egyptians are currently brokering reconciliation talks between the deeply divided Palestinian factions of Fatah and Hamas.

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Peace in the new Mideast region with a new Palestine state could be ensured by Arab states, UN special peace mission and USA. Heavily militarized nuclear Israel could be perpetual threat to Palestine even after an Independent Israel comes into being. Zionist regime has showcased its tyrant instincts n the terror attacks, the latest one being in December 2008. At a joint news conference with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Saudi foreign minister said: “Temporary security and confidence-building measures will also not bring peace. What is required is a comprehensive approach that defines the final outcome and launches into negotiations over final-status issues.”

Mrs. Clinton said the U.S. aim was to get agreement from the parties to begin negotiations with the intention of resolving all the issues in a “comprehensive way. We know that this is all in the process that has to be undertaken and we are looking forward to seeing the parties sitting down at the negotiating table. By final-status issues, Saud was referring to matters such as resolving the borders of a future Palestinian state, the fate of refugees, water disputes and the future of Jerusalem. In blunt language, the Saudi minister said Israel was shifting attention from those core issues by focusing on Jewish settlement building on Palestinian territory. Saud said Israel is being asked to give back land that “never belonged to it in the first place.”

Egypt that mediates between the “teams”, is not doding enough to settle the decades’ long global issue. Saudi Arabia, whihc has also offered a peace plan, on 31 July Friday accused Israel of not being serious about peace with the Palestinians and rejected U.S. pleas to improve ties with Israel as a way of jump-starting regional peace talks. Although time is fasting running out of Zionist regime, the Obama administration is not making any strict rules f fascist Israel which is still ill-focussed on destroying Palestine by clubbing with Fatah PLO Abbas by revealing the hidden truth about the murder of Yassar Arafat in which Abbas was involved. It is already six months after the last round of holocaust of Palestinians and Israel must be feeling restless without terror attacking Gaza. The U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, has sought to get confidence-building measures on all sides in a bid to revive talks stalled after Israel’s invasion into Gaza last December in response to rocket attacks on the Jewish state.

Zionist reigme, its Mossad plus the CIA agents spread rumours now that the Palelstnians don’t seek an excluslive state for themselves. To prove their arguent, the fatah and Hamas factions keep their infightings intact. Despite several rounds of talks, the two Palestinian factions are still at odds on the most sensitive issues, such as the shape of a future unity government, the remit of the joint security force and the system that would be implemented for any upcoming elections. Leaders and officials from the Palestinian Authority say they are frustrated. There was a vague hope, in some quarters, that the PA might have won some fresh political ground from Israel ahead of the long-delayed Fatah conference, which is due to start a week today.

Establishment of Palestine state and disarmament of fascist Israel has to go hand in hand if the Obama admnistration really is keen to show results in their efforts to bring lasting peace in Mideast. The way Obama’s predessors, espeicallay th eimmediate Bush hae approached the issue is much to be desried becasue they alwasy supported the Zionist reigme and joined the Zionist reigme in condemning Palestninas. President Bush never visited Gaza the occupied lands and he called the defeseless Palestinians terrorists and the terror Zionist occupiers the democrats. Even while in Israel Bush who mhad made the world beclive he would help create Palesltne before he left the office, praised Zionism and slammed Palestine. Presdeitn Obama should take not this and desist from follwing the same strategy.

Massive Railway upgrade with Chinese help

BEIJING (China): Railways Minister Haji Ghulam Ahmed Bilour said here Monday that during his visit to China he held successfully wide ranging talks with Chinese side for broader cooperation in various railway projects.

Pakistan Railways linked to Trans Asian Railway Network (TARN)

“I have held talks for modernization of railways, purchase of 75 locomotives, 202 passenger coaches, plan to purchase 800 more high-speed freight bogies, laying of new railways track from Karachi to Khyber, Gwader to Quetta, Havalian to Khangrab, Quetta-Taftan railway sections and many more”, Haji Bilour said while before winding up his visit to China on Monday.

Pakistan Railways linked to Trans Railway Network (TARN).Fibre-optic line, oil & gas pipeline rail track linking Karakorum Highway to Gwadar

Haji Bilour who was leading a railway delegation left for home on Monday evening. He pointed out that during his visit he held meeting with his Chinese counterpart Liu Zhi Jun and both sides agreed to collaborate for modernization of Pakistan Railways network.

It has also been decided to constitute a consortium in which both Pakistan and China will be partners. Haji Bilour said that China has nominated their three experts to help assist Pakistani side for carrying out technical feasibility studies for cooperation and modernization of railways projects. While, on return home, he would also nominate from Pakistani side after consultation.

Pakistan Railways linked to Trans Asian Railway Network (TARN)

On purchased of 75 locomotives, Haji Bilour said that he held talks with EXIM Bank in this regard. Out of total number of 75 engines, 25 will be purchased on CKD while remaining 50 will be assembled in railways factory Riasalpur.

Bilour regarding Havalian-Khangrab railways network, pointed out that the Chinese side has completed the feasibility study of the project.

To promote tourism, Haji Bilour said that his ministry is working on various proposals including launching of train from Islamabad to various tourists interest spots in the country He assured that after acquisition of locomotives, passenger coaches, high speed freight bogies, rehabilitation of railway tracks, the service of Pakistan Railways will certainly improve. Pakistan-China talks on broader cooperation successful: Bilour. ‘Pakistan Times’ China Bureau