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BLK-52 is the same plain vanilla aluminum airframe. Block-60 is a needlessly expensive "fuel truck" with conformal tanks and AESA. The downside with Blk-52 is that they cannot be used against India, or the US will pull the carpet under our feet.

In the context of JF-17 it does not matter where the individual parts are fabricated, as long as the following conditions are met: 1. These are assured resources, means we are not embargoed when we need the parts. 2. The supplier industrial base is large enough to justify production runs...

The Army-TTP conflict is not about territory, its about ideology, hearts and minds. Taleban had virtually met their end by 2002. Since 2004 their support base has grown from a hardcore of about 1500 to more than 20,000 (lets not buy the TTP Bull of 500,000 members). Their kinda sad...

In the imagination of most of the friends at this forum FATA might as well be in Mars (who really cares!). The daily sights and sounds of Army howtzers and PAF jets pounding the "bad guys" provide kinda pervert entertainment. We are treated to the sight of our valiant soldiers advancing on...

rangerssg: We all express our heartiest sympathies and condolences. One way to highlight the callousness and insensitivity of our rules and brass is to call a press conference in Islamabad. Out all the facts and more in front of the Nation. That should move the decision makers. You may put...

Dear SSGPA1 your post was truly amusing, specially the part "" This was test which our allies failed. According to sources ....."" Our ALLIES? which Allies? How can we claim to be "Allies" at all? We are just hired camp followers working for paltry wages fighting somebody's war. We have...

May Allah rest his soul in peace, and give strength and forebearance to the family to bear this grevious loss. General Amir death is obviously a revenge killing. A great loss to the Pakistani nation. It would have been a matter of great pride if he had embraced shahaadat while fighting at...

If you really want to dwell on history in distant past; the whole of subcontinent was about 600 princely states that were fused together in a notional entity called the British India through an accident of history.

Dear Vinod2070: India is entitled to draw any maps in its dreams, but in reality the inclusion of Jammu & Kashmir is illegal as per any International norms. Facts on ground are that the Northern Areas are part of Pakistan, and Eastern Laddakh is part of China.

India does not have even a one kilometer border with Afghanistan, but through deft diplomacy and allaince with Israel / USA it has installed its allied government in Kabul. We Pakistanis have sacrificed our credibility and support base, besides getting involved in nan expensive insurgency on...

The ISI chief was summoned to India, and our government agreed in less than 5 minutes. Our Foreign minister was on Indian soil, and was grilled by the media for 3 days. India considers Pakistan as another Bhutan. What next? do they expect our Army chief to report to GHQ in Delhi?

Pakistan has no involvement in the terrorist attack in India. Even if the terrorists happened to be Pakistani citizens, that does not prove Pakistan Government or ISI involvement. Extremists and fanatics live on both sides of the border. Pakistani extremists are being chased and killed in...

Pakistan is really not that helpless and vulnerable. Pakistan Government and Army should cease operations on its soil and focus on the real threats that are knocking on our borders. We have done enough service for others, now India too wants us to work for paltry wages. LETS UNITE! NO ONE CAN...

Why should we be on the defensive? The Government of Pakistan did not sponsor the terror attack on Bombay. Pakistan has done more than any other nation on earth to fight the American war on terror. Now we are expected to fight for India too. Then India too must contribute to the effort through...

Poor Karzai is not a real player in the game. He is a small timer with no real power base of his own, a compartively harmless puppet. The real power base is USA, India and Israel; and their Northern Allaince surrogates like Younis Qanooni, Abdallah Abdallah and Dostum. Karzai was made president...

CIA, RAW and Mossad have successfully got Pakistan Army and ISI involved into an unneccessary conflict on Pakistani soil against Pakistani citizens (however primitive or misguided). FATA and Swat operations have sapped our strength and virtually demiloshed the capability of ISI to rely on...

I beg to disagree with the statement “The Taliban movement is built upon force, violence and coercion”. If it were so, they would have petered out way back in 2001. Taleban have found a creation degree of acceptability in Eastern Afghanistan and our FATA for the following...

Our friend S-2 has a great sense of humor!. He expects the “bad guys” to mount a white steed on a hill top, and charge an F-15E flying at 30,000 ft with his shining saber, and get his ticket punched to the Heavens!. The US forces in Afghanistan are virtual prisoners, cannot even address the...

The US UAV strikes happen with the full knowledge and consent of Pakistan’s political and military leadership. Perhaps after the US election the true extent of the formal and informal agreements will be known. To most Pakistanis the strikes on Waziristan might as well be happening on...

It is disconcerting to see that some friends at this Forum genuinely think that Pakistan Army is engaged in combat against a real “Enemy” and establishing writ over “Enemy Territory”. Swat, Bajaur, Waziristan are all parts of Pakistan. The so-called extremists are all...