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Good point. I don't think the Air India planes comes equipped with such safety features as the Boeing VVIP jets, as the Air India plane will be doing commercial duties when it is not flying the PM, but i cant be too sure.

The 3 Boeing VVIP jets purchased to transport VVIP's have a limited range and seating capacity, so they are largely confined to domestic operations. They are not capable of transporting the PM to distant foreign capitals like Washington DC, with large business delegations that usually travel...

Interesting Note: Meanwhile, Moscow daily, Kommersant, reported that future production of JF-17 would be in jepody. The Sukhoi and MiG-RSK director general, Mikhail Pogosian has written to the Russian export agency, Rosoboronexport, opposing the sale of the next tranche of 100 RD-93 engines...

Sad. May they rest in peace.

Love for China or hatred of India!!? Somehow the friendship blossomed only after 1962. Nevertheless this comparison does take the shine away from Pakistan's economic failure and its reliance on foreign aid to keep its economy afloat.

Unquestionably China is an Economic powerhouse and i compliment them on becoming the worlds 2nd largest economy. But what i find amusing is the glee at which some of my Pakistani friends like to post China-India comparisons, they seem to virtually admitting to Pakistan's economic failure & its...

Just laughter!! You disappoint me. I was keeps my fingers crossed for another prediction. Btw: Can you give reasons for your statements in the earlier post?

Heard of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. No one thought that was possible 5 years ago. The Americans extended this exceptional favor to India. ToT for Javelin is nothing compared to the Nuclear Deal. Who knows it might happen again!? Lets wait and watch before jumping to such hasty conclusions.

There seems to be a lot of Hi Tech equipment coming our way. At this rate our conventional capability will register a quantum jump in a very short span of time. This is great news.

Didn't know we had a Nostradamus on the forum!!

How will that help? unless you want to take Pakistan the Iran way & make it an international pariah state. or you could dismantle the terror infrastructure!!

Eager bevaer or not, you have shied away from answering a direct question about Hu. Let me see you answer that. You simply didnt get the drift did you? The Presidents electricity bill was an example to illustrate the openness that surrounds public finances in India and is reflective of the...

Very true but your point here is more to do with corruption than diversion of money and lack of budgetary accountability. As you might have noticed that these issues came out after investigation by American agencies themslves and free reporting by the American press. By this very logic the...

Fair point. Yes they are interlinked. But the connection here is little more complicated than that. I spoke of lack of transperency and accountability in the context of fudging up figures in realtion to the defence budget, where is any relation to corruption in this context. Your friend...

As a matter of fact you cant. Under this so called new rule the only the Communist Part is told about the assests & not the average Chineese citizen. You cant ask your government anything, not will they tell you anything. I suggest you do a little better reading of this new rule, having...

What ticked you off. My staright question about Hu or the lack of accountability of your government?? Wake up this is not 1990, licence raj & red tape are long gone, hate to shatter you illusions though. dude the allegations you level have been brought to light by the free Indian press...

Again ignorence about the budgetary system in a democracy has prompted you to make an statement like that. The office of the CAG in India not only watches the spent by the Govt of India but also pointes out errors by the government, if any. Based on which the officials incharge can be taken to...

When it comes to China i dont think that the Chineese leaders need to bother with even statistics. Statistics comes into play to manipulate a result in a more open environment, where people have access to the numbers but are too lazy to bother to analyzise as to how an inference based on these...

You speak withought knowledge or understanding of the budgetary process in democratic countries. Though they are conceived and implemented in different ways, one underlying principle always remains the same i.e they are TRANSPERENT. which is simply not the case with China. The Chineese people...

Given China's opaque nature of governance and non-transperent nautre of finances it is very difficult to confirm the actual figures. But the figure of 1.4% is clearly an understatement, that too coming from the official media.