On Wednesday 28th October, 2009, Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, flagged off the 18-km track linking South Kashmir with Srinagar and other places in the north of the Kashmir Valley. With this, the 129KM railway line in the Kashmir valley is completed.

The new track is believed to be of huge socio-economic and political significance to the militancy-affected Kashmir Valley. The security of the train and the passenger from cross border terrorism and militancy is the main concern of the government now. The stretch is part of the government's Kashmir rail link, which was declared a project of national importance in 2002 by former Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee. Qazigund, about 80 km from Srinagar, is also significant as it will be the highest broad-gauge rail station in the subcontinent at a height of 1,722 metres.

 The Project starts from the city of Udhampur, a city 55 kilometres north of Jammu, and travels for 290 kilometres (180 mi) to the city of Baramulla on the northwestern edge of the Kashmir Valley. The route lies on such a climate zone where high snowfall is seen most of the year. The route also passes the major earthquake danger zones.

In 1898, the King of Kashmir, Maharaja Pratap Singh, first came with the idea of linking Jammu and Srinagar (two important places of Kashmir, presently summer and winter capital of Kashmir respectively) by rail. But due to complications with British Governemnt this was suspended.

Then in 1905, Maharaja Pratap Singh approved a rail line between Jammu Srinagar, which was now proposed by British Government. 

In July, 2002 Atal behari Vajpayee, the Prime Minister of India, declared this line a national project. This means it had to be completed without looking at the cost. Central government enrolled the budget to fund this project entirely.

On April 13, 2005, Jammu-Udhampur line was connected with a cost of US$130 million. The line has 20 major tunnels and 158 bridges.

The railway is expected to cross a total of over 750 bridges and pass through over 100 kilometers of tunnels, the longest of which is about 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) in length.^. The greatest engineering challenges involve the crossing of the Chenab river, which requires building a 1,315 metres (4,310 ft) long bridge, 359 metres (1,180 ft) above the river bed; and the crossing of the Anji Khad, which involves building a 657 metres (2,160 ft) long bridge, 186 metres (610 ft) above the river bed. (Source: Official webpage of the Konkan Railway Corporation Limited. http://www.konkanrailway.com/website/tender/annexure1.pdf. Retrieved 2008-08-14.) The Chenab Bridge will be the highest railway structure of its kind in the world, 35 m higher than the tip of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

With major highways, airways and now railways linking Kashmir with India and the world, Pakistan is not happy. The part of Kashmir which Pakistan is holding illegally is becoming a flourishing ground for terrorists and their training camp. Due to lack of infrastructure and poverty, people who are trapped in that part of Kashmir are trapped forever. This is forcing the young kids of the families to join Jehad against India, on doing so these organisations funding their families.

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Ruling out the points made by a report which said that the possible source of Taliban's fund is the opium cultivation in many parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Interior Minister of Pakistan, Rehman Malik, claimed that these nations [India, Israel and U.S] are fomenting unrest within Pakistan, through steps such as funding Taliban fighters based along the border with Afghanistan.

U.S has been fighting a war with Al-Qaeda and Taliban since 2001. India, which is itself frustrated with extremism, is making sweet relations with Afghan government by donating billions for their infrastructure and security, to keep the extremists on bay, whereas Israel is fighting a long term war with Islamic Extremism. Hence it has become very difficult to believe in the Interior minister's recent statement.

Asked during an interview to a TV news channel as to who was backing the Taliban, he said: "There are certain hostile elements against Pakistan and there are certain hostile agencies which do not want Pakistan to be stabilised."

He then specially pointed out its 62 year old enemy neighbour, India. In response to a question on whether India is among the hostile agencies, Malik said, "Yes, of course, I am convinced. I have no doubt about it. I was very open. I have given the full details". (Source: India funding Taliban fighters: Pak Minister)

As per now, nothing has been done by the Pakistani Government in the Mumbai blast case. The dossier given by India has been checked by more than 100 nations of the world, including U.S, Europe, Russia, China and other major South American, African and Arab Countries.

Taliban was born with the help of CIA and Pakistani Intelligence agency, ISI, to make the Soviets leave Afghanistan. After U.S had won the proxy war, it paid very less attention to Taliban. Pakistan used this opportunity and headed Taliban to capture Kabul and form a ruling body there, to enlarge its area of influence with a plan of destabilizing India, making Afghanistan responsible for the act.

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A news agency has reported that around 160 survivors of Bosnia's 1992-95 war are leaving Sarajevo to attend the genocide trial of their wartime leader, Radovan Karadzic, in Hague, Netherlands. Monday will be the starting day for Karadzic's trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

However, he has boycotted the trial, as he was not given proper time for it, according to him. He has been in custody and working on his defense since his arrest on a Belgrade bus, in July 2008. Judges have now scheduled his trial on Tuesday.

The decision enraged survivors, who had traveled by bus from Bosnia to see Karadzic finally face justice. A small group briefly refused to leave the courtroom after the adjournment and one woman threatened a hunger strike.

"We are going there (Hague) to show to Europe and the world that we are still here, still searching for the truth and still waiting for justice," Munira Subasic, head of an association gathering the 1995 Srebrenica massacre survivors (who organised the trip), told FENA before his trial on Monday, which was postponed.

Sarajevo (AFP) quoted Subasic, who is still searching for the remains of her son and husband as

"Karadzic's trial should be conducted in line with rules and justice to avoid what had happened with (former Serbian president Slobodan) Milosevic". Milosevic died in his prison cell during his genocide trial in 2006.

"When he died, justice died as well," Subasic further added.

Karadzic faces life imprisonment on 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his actions as Bosnian Serb president during Bosnia's inter-ethnic war, that claimed an estimated 100,000 lives. Karadzic is also charged notably for the July 1995 massacre of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica.

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Reports say that ISI has offered around 60 surrendered Talibanese to join jihad against India in Kashmir. The majority of the population in Kashmir being Muslims, taliban believe they can be made targets and can be turned against India very easily. ISI will send them to jail, if they do not go to India. The Pakistan military establishment has had to fight the Taliban, once its close allies in Afghanistan, but is looking to turn the situation to its advantage.

Sources from Border Security Force of India and Indian Army say that the Army already knows about this development made against India, deep in the soil of Pakistan.

"Although the Taliban is yet to successfully infiltrate into India, the coming days will pose a challenge as their attempts to sneak in are expected before the onset of winter," said a senior official as quoted by The Times of India. The infiltration is closely controlled and monitored by the ISI and Pakistan army, which is often involved in the crossings.

Sources also believe that the state actors of Pakistan are also involved in this matter and have been and are helping the militants to infiltrate across the border, right into the Indian territory. The soft attitude of India towards terrorism is the source of motivation and encouragement to them. It is Pakistan who warns India of a possible nuclear attack on India if India tries to take any hard action, thus making India a state which becomes unable to do anything during an attack which is often (directly/indirectly) funded by Pakistan.

The Talibanese are now more threatening and are more trained. Their experience has increased fighting with U.S. The modern weapons which they possess are not with many armies of the world. Taliban is becoming a modern terrorism group.

Times of India says Apart from the group of 60, there are nearly 250 to 300 jihadis, who are armed with sophisticated weapons, Thuraya satellite phones and Indian mobile SIM cards - poised at launch pads along LoC (Line of Control). This feeds into the view that violence could escalate in Kashmir in the winter months.  "Such incidents (like use of choppers) clearly show the involvement of Pakistani authorities in facilitating infiltration. Though our forces are fully alert to thwart Pakistani designs, the next 15-20 days are quite crucial, as this is the period when they will do everything to infiltrate as many terrorists as possible," said a senior official as quoted by The Times of India. That is when winter will begin to set in.

It's in winter when the intensity of troops reduces in the region. The Kashmir region is one of the worlds coldest borders and staying on the post throughout the year is very difficult. This is the period when Pakistan releases its plans. One can not forget how in Kashmir during the Kargil war, Pakistani Army entered Indian heights and occupied them before Indian army could arrive. Thanks to Indian army who regained the territory after defeating Pakistan.

It should be recalled that even though Pakistani Army was involved in war with Taliban in its Western frontiers, Taliban offered Pakistan help if it goes with war with India after the Mumbai Attacks.

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The Week magazine quoted Assam Rifles, PRO colonel Prasant Wankhede as "Arms used by terrorists in different parts of India have come via Myanmar. Porters smuggle arms and drugs across the border. We have identified 30 border villages where arms are cached for smugglers"

It is very difficult to control the smuggling, as the local villagers keep moving in and out of the border. The smugglers have taken advantage of this free movement across the border. The unfenced 1, 663 KM border with Myanmar is proving to be more threatening than the borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh, where Indian troops intensity is high.

In September 2008, Okram Ibobi Singh, Chief Minister of Manipur (a north eastern state of India), requested the union government to fence the entire border with Myanmar. The fencing of the border will prevent smuggling to some extent. The problem is that those local people who have been crossing border for wood and water for ages can not be stopped suddenly. They may either break the fence or may join hands with insurgents and smugglers for their protest against the government, though the government is considering the notion of fencing there is utmost need of security agencies, who are manning the border to be mentally prepared to check smuggling.

Intelligence reports say the arms from Thailand and Cambodia are first shipped to Myanmar's Arakan forest (Bay of Bengal). The arms are repacked there and are smuggled into north eastern states to support insurgents of India and terrorists of Bangladesh.

The main villain in this whole game is supposed to be the Black House Syndicate, based in China's Yunnan province. It is known for illegally shipping weapons to many parts of South Asia, after eradicating Chinese marks from the weapons.

Looking into past few months, Chinese intentions don't look so positive. Invading Indian territory and claiming a large part of Indian territory in North east India is a bit worrying. It is not known what China is going to do with India, but whatever it is going to do, will be done very soon.

India is not prepared for a war with China. Air Chief Marshal of India has already said that India's Air power is nearly one third of China's. If China attacks India, hardly anyone would come forward to help India daring China's strength. And till U.N comes with a solution, after a long procedure through diplomatic channels, it will get too late.

Reports say that illegal shipping of Chinese arms into India escalated after Pokhran II. James Intelligence Review named United Wa State Army, an eastern Myanmar based insurgent group, as the link between Chinese suppliers and Indian insurgents. The international Security Database say UWSA has around 20,000 soldiers.

The Black House, suppliers and smugglers, get funds through drug trafficking, which generates hard cash. Taking drugs using needles has become the cause of increasing HIV AIDS in the region. Drug seizing, worth crores of rupees in north east India by they Indian Army, is becoming a daily story. Both India and Myanmar are concerned to curb the drug menace, both feel that fencing the border might be the best solution.

If Black House is the market of illegal weapons, the drugs come from the notorious golden triangle, which lies in Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand.

This is another game being played by China to destabilize India from the root. China is indirectly attacking the people of India, making them habitual to drugs and then leaving them worth for nothing.

Myanmar's opium cultivation grew from 27,700ha in 2007 to 28,800ha in 2008. Since Thai government initiated a crackdown along their border with Myanmar a few years back, the drug barons in Myanmar turned to India.

The chemical Acetic anhydride, which can also be used to purify heroin, goes not surprisingly from India, says The Week magazine. The illegal heroin conversion laboratories on the Myanmar side grew to 42 since 1993, when they were only 21.

Such a huge system made to destabilize India, seeded by China, has been working for so long without coming into the picture. It is shameful for the Indian government that China has now got access to Indian and Bangladeshi militant, who share same interest with China -- destroying the Indian Union. Neither a peaceful dialogue, nor a war will help in this situation. What India need is a sense of greater self security, advanced infrastructure, education and lower poverty.

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After ruling the sky for almost a decade (from 1997 to 2008) with Su-30MKI (Modernizirovannyi Kommercheskiy Indiski / Modernized Commercial India), a modified version of Russian Su-30, Indian and Russian dominance was taken over by US with the introduction of F-22 Raptor, the only active stealth main combat aircraft present in the world, which makes it a true fifth generation aircraft. Stealth aircrafts can remain hidden even from the scanning radars present on the land or space.

After the successful joint venture of Brahmos cruise missile with India, Russia proposed India to start developing a fifth generation aircraft together. (Source: Asia Times, India, Russia still brothers in arms) On October 27, 2007, Asia Times quoted Sukhoi's director, Mikhail Pogosyan, "We [India and Russia] will share the funding, engineering and intellectual property [of the new project] in a 50-50 proportion". The two variants of this aircraft will be made, one will be twin seater and other will be single seater. The FGFA (Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft), a twin seater aircraft, will be predominantly using weapons of Indian origin such as Astra, a Beyond Visual Range missile being developed by India, although special measures will be taken to fit Russian missiles in it also, at the time of need. The PAK FA variant will be mainly used by Russia. It is just like Su-30MK and Su-30MKI, where former variant is used by Russia and latter one is used by India.

Stealth technology is acquired by incorporating a combination of features to reduce visibility in the infrared, visual, audio and radio frequency spectrum. It is accomplished by using a different concept design than the conventional design, which though arises some limitations to it, gives it an advantage of intruding a hostile region without the knowledge of enemy.

Russian approach towards stealth is slightly different. The plan is to make the aircraft invisible to radar by using a sort of a plasma torch on the nose of the plane, and this torch creates ionized cloud around the plane which will absorb radar waves (This technology was revealed to the world by the researchers of Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics (ITAE) at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, who presented a paper to a conference organized by International Quality and Productivity Centre, on stealth in London in October 2003). Hundred of hours of testing was done on a reduced Su-35. ITAE and its partners has also developed plasma-type technology for applying ceramic coatings to the exhaust and afterburner. Since Russia keeps its technology secret, it is hard to add further more before the plane actually comes into service.

The shaping of aircraft is done so that the radar wave strikes them at close to tangential, thus making the radar wave to be deflected to some other direction. Absorbers and coatings are used to absorb a part of radar wave, thus reflecting almost nothing back to the radar. Weapons are kept in internal bays and open only when there is a need to strike. A stealth aircraft temporarily looses its stealth capability significantly on opening of bays for striking. Access panel and door edges, being a major contribution to radar cross section, are swept and are aligned with other edges of aircraft.

On 16th September, 2008, HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) chairman told that the contribution of India will be mostly in composites, cockpits, avionics and arming the fighter. The Indian and Russian version of fighter will slightly vary according to the requirement of each nation. As India is making a deal of 126 Medium Role Combat Aircrafts which will be mostly single seater, India is thus choosing a twin seater FGFA fighter fleet in its airforce for now. The first test flight of the aircraft has already been done on Friday, 29th Jan, 2010, over the sky of Komsomolsk-on-Amur for a time-frame of 47 minutes. It is believed the plane will be introduced in the year of 2013.

As the aircraft is still in making, it is hard to say which one will be better, F-35/F-22 or Sukhoi/HAL FGFA/PAK FA. With a range of upto 5,500KM compared to 3219 KM of F-22. 9 g limit and speed of Mach 2+,  this aircraft is expected to bring revolution in the aerospace industry. The world is still surprised over the Russian Technology, how they make it so cheap? The estimated unit cost of FGFA is around F-22's, including much more features than F-22

Read More: American Stealth Fighter F-22 Vs Russian-Indian Fifth Gen PAK FA

Incorporating features from MIG's Su-47 and Su-30MKI, India and Russia are heading forward to neutralize the current U.S supremacy.

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Many reports are coming in about the deep incursion into the Indian Territory by the Chinese Army, painting the rocks red and writing China in Cantonese (China's Yin Yang Behavior)

China has been adopting an ominously aggressive anti-India posture for quite some time now. India and China had hold many meetings for a solution but the talks, which have gone on for years, have not taken India and China a millimeter nearer to the solution.

A news coming out of China, showed the evil plans of Balkanising India into 20 to 30 separate nations. The news came out of an article which was first published on the website of China Institute of International Strategic Studies in April 2009. The article says disintegration of India is necessary for China's security and greater position in Asia. China is thus trying to play cards of getting cozier with Indian neighbours and then  play them against India.

China believes Bangladesh might claim West Bengal and help China in spreading Chinese influence in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. Tamil separatists may demand for a separate state of Tamils in Tamil Nadu and North Sri Lanka. China and Pakistan are together supporting insurgencies in India and are pushing terrorists, fake currency and exporting duplicate Indian products in the international markets.

The threat is even more visible with recent hardening of Chinese attitude towards India, as shown by its minatory postures and repeated intrusion along Indian northern borders and repeated claims of Arunachal Pradesh in north east India.

China considers Arunachal Pradesh as its territory, though never in the history China has ever ruled that region. China doesn't ask for passport from the people of Arunachal Pradesh who want to visit China, instead they issue a stapled visa. China tried to block India's application for an ADB loan of $2.9 billion for a flood control project. Though later China had lost this case.

China has been upgrading infrastructure, military and surveillance systems on its borders. The Indian side  responded by deploying Su-30MKI in the region and around 55000 soldiers alone in Arunachal pradesh.

The State of Tamil Nadu is already showing signs of separation. A recent statement by Jayalalitha proposing a new Tamil state for Tamilans in Sri Lanka raised many eyebrows, as it was a bit worrying, thinking about what to follow next (Source: Call to create a Tamil state). Also, the Anti hindi Agitation protests coming in the years of 1938, 1948, 1952, and 1965 is a bit worrying for the Indian Union.(Source : Anti Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu)

China hopes to replace U.S and emerge as the sole superpower dominating the world by 2050. It will never like its neighbor to be a competitor, strong in economy, technology and political structure.

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