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Sounds like a replacement for the 60 mirage 2000's that will be retired in 10 years. For those concerned on the differing platforms and their maintainence, in 10 yrs we will be rid of mig21/25/27/Jag/M2k so a lot of consolidation taking place. So we will be left with...

Frankly this would be a welcome move for India and Pak would be doing us a favor. About time we banned indian nationals from working in the Arab states. On the question of business! What business?? It's mostly a one way street in us buying oil and if Saudi won't sell it am sure we can get it...

So did Pakistan. They did not reject this. In return Pak gets $300m from India, Let's face it. You sold out for peanuts...(in the scheme of things)

US and Europe (mainly) were dominant much before WW2 (for 300 yrs). Post WW2 Europe accepted and welcomed US dominance so as to retain the west's status. Asia has no interest in seeing China as its poster-child. Call it divide and rule or whatever but Asians have not reached the metal maturity...

The RMB is not a deliverable currency yet. First step is to make it deliverable and then let it freely trade for a few years.. If any international entity wants to buy RMB offshore they cannot.

Let's take the example of the Mirage 2000. Both India and Taiwan bought 60 planes. While the attrition in Taiwan was 5 planes, we have lost 10 in India. Btw, Taiwan has had their planes 5 yrs longer than India. We cannot just stick our heads in the sand and pretend that our training and...

This article and views of its author are an extreme minority and an exception. Most Indians and Pakistanis care less about each other. So let's not get carried away. Pakistanis are culturally more Arab than South Asian.

China will also buy bonds issued by AIIB to leverage up the registered capital so the overall contribution would be higher. Anyways, am sure the details will be out soon.

Developing countries to need access to Chinese capital and if this bank can provide debt financing at rates competitive to those from the World Bank then good for everyone. Since China has $3tn in reserves, even 5% of that would amount to $150bn and if that's leveraged up then more likely...

Great move in my opinion. The Il 76 plane is outdated and in any case new planes are no longer available. India needs 12-15 additional planes in the next 10 years so it makes sense to use this A330 as a platform rather than have to switch midway.

Arab countries don't face much of an external threat (Yemen is hardly a threat to Saudi). US will not allow the House of Saud to channel this alliance against Israel. So that pretty much leaves Iran !! & self preservation for the respective regimes.

As long as Pak does not add to their debt I guess this is a win win situation for both. But this was not the case with the Sri Lanka port project. I understand that there SL borrowed at 6% from China which was quite heavy for a marginal project. Every country to their own but it's interesting...

I guess these projects are debt financed by the Chinese. Does anyone know what is Pakistan's outstanding debt to China??

About time the govt switched to LED. Most households in the cities already use CFL which is quite close to LED in terms of efficiency.

Big talk as usual. Pakistani's are made to believe (by your incompetent army) that you guys came up with the insurgency concept (aka Kashmir) Bangladesh was executed while you were sleeping and it took you 20 years to replicate (unsuccessfully).

Got to give the upper middle class population something to feel good about ! Indian media puts nothing in context when publishing stuff. Reprinting a ADB paper to fill pages is cheap and easy. More importantly, 98% of Indians don't read English newspapers and local language news rarely covers...

Thank god they didn't crash it !

I guess you are all still living in the 20th century. In time of war, or even a serious threat by India, or in the event of even a single commercial liner being sunk, no commercial shipper will dock in Pak. A de facto blockade. Pak may get some military supplies through (from China) but in 45...

Why blame the politicians. The invitation was from your COAS during his visit to China. Not sure your politicians were even aware of it. Pretty dysfunctional country..

What a load of junk ! Pak should be sued for not maintaining these during captivity.