India airlifts military hospital to Tajikistan

[anant_s]

India airlifts military hospital to Tajikistan to strengthen geo-strategic footprint in Central Asia

NEW DELHI: India has quietly airlifted a military hospital, with doctors, paramedics and equipment, to Tajikistan as part of the deepening "strategic partnership" with the energy-rich central Asian country that shares borders with Afghanistan, China, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

India already has over 100 Indian military personnel stationed at the Ayni airbase in Tajikistan, a country that also shares close proximity to ******************-Kashmir (***), as a kind of a "military outpost". The new hospital will serve to further strengthen India's geo-strategic footprint in the crucial Central Asian region.

Defence ministry sources say two of the newly-acquired C-130J "Super Hercules" aircraft of the IAF airlifted medical stores, equipment and 55 personnel over the last month to establish the "India-Tajik Friendship Hospital" in southern Tajikistan.

"The 50-bed hospital will treat both military as well as civilian people," said a source. The setting up of the hospital comes at a time when vice-president Hamid Ansari is on a visit to the landlocked country to further cement the bilateral strategic partnership and well as expand its "Connect Central Asia Policy" to build stronger linkages with the five Central Asian countries.

This is not the first time that India has established a hospital in Tajikistan, which shares a 1,400-km with Afghanistan. In the 1990s, India had run a famous field hospital at Farkor on the Tajik-Afghan border to treat wounded fighters from the then Northern Alliance that was battling the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

It was at the very same hospital that the Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masood was pronounced dead after being assassinated just two days before the 9/11 terror strikes in 2001. But around a decade ago, India had inexplicably shut down the hospital.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon's visit to India last August, during which the long-standing bilateral partnership was elevated to a strategic partnership, had then laid the groundwork for the new hospital.

With a broad convergence of views on security matters and cross-border terrorism, the close equation with Tajikistan becomes even more important for India now in the backdrop of the drawdown of US-led international forces from Afghanistan by 2014.

The Indian "military outpost" at the Ayni airbase, around 15 km from Tajik capital Dushanbe, also helps New Delhi keep tabs on its economic and strategic interests in Central Asia as well as "any anti-Indian activity" in the terrorism-infested Af-Pak region.

Indian Army, IAF and Border Roads Organisation personnel had worked hard to upgrade the airbase, which includes extension of the runway and construction of three aircraft hangars, an air-control tower and perimeter fencing around the base, at a cost of over Rs 100 crore.

India airlifts military hospital to Tajikistan to strengthen geo-strategic footprint in Central Asia - The Times of India

 

[A1Kaid]

It's not going to serve much of a "geo-strategic" advantage or benefit, it's really just a waste of money a show-off move more than anything else. Having a small military "hospital" isn't really going to "strengthen geo-strategic footprint".

The Indian "military outpost" at the Ayni airbase, around 15 km from Tajik capital Dushanbe, also helps New Delhi keep tabs on its economic and strategic interests in Central Asia as well as "any anti-Indian activity" in the terrorism-infested Af-Pak region.

Yes, this small "military outpost" is going to prevent "any anti-Indian activity", it sure helped with the bombing of the Indian embassy in 2008. This is how you know the idiotic Indian media wrote this stuff, and fortunately for us this is what population of that country consumes as brain food.

Though on the bright side, at least Tajikistan is earning good profits off the lease, these days growing number of countries have their hands in the Indian pockets, the Russians, Tajiks, Israelis, and French.

 

[Roybot]

It's not going to serve much of a "geo-strategic" advantage or benefit, it's really just a waste of money a show-off move more than anything else. Having a small military "hospital" isn't really going to "strengthen geo-strategic footprint".


Yes, this small "military outpost" is going to prevent "any anti-Indian activity", it sure helped with the bombing of the Indian embassy in 2008. This is how you know the idiotic Indian media wrote this stuff, and fortunately for us this is what population of that country consumes as brain food.

Though on the bright side, at least Tajikistan is earning good profits off the lease, these days growing number of countries have their hands in the Indian pockets, the Russians, Tajiks, Israelis, and French.

Thank you for your concern and incredibly stupid logic.

Using your amazing logic, Pakistan Military is there to to protect Pakistan, yet we see bombings and what not in your country, does this mean Pakistani Military is pointless?

 

[Ashoka The Great]

It's not going to serve much of a "geo-strategic" advantage or benefit, it's really just a waste of money a show-off move more than anything else. Having a small military "hospital" isn't really going to "strengthen geo-strategic footprint".




Yes, this small "military outpost" is going to prevent "any anti-Indian activity", it sure helped with the bombing of the Indian embassy in 2008. This is how you know the idiotic Indian media wrote this stuff, and fortunately for us this is what population of that country consumes as brain food.

Though on the bright side, at least Tajikistan is earning good profits off the lease, these days growing number of countries have their hands in the Indian pockets, the Russians, Tajiks, Israelis, and French.

Follow the links and educate yourself:

India Reportedly Basing Helicopters, Fighter Jets In Tajikistan | EurasiaNet.org
http://rupeenews.com/2012/12/terror-bases-in-tajikistan-need-to-be-shut-down/
http://indrus.in/articles/2012/10/26/indias_ayni_military_base_in_tajikistan_is_russia-locked_18661.html


Multiple links are given so that you in extreme denial don't question the authenticity of the links.

 

[A1Kaid]

Thank you for your concern and incredibly stupid logic.

Using your amazing logic, Pakistan Military is there to to protect Pakistan, yet we see bombings and what not in your country, does this mean Pakistani Military is pointless?

It's not stupid logic at all, it's the Indian article which is stupid it states "any anti-Indian activity". What "anti-Indian activity" has this "military outpost" actually prevented? None, that's the point. India has had an an outpost and air field there for years. Although we know the real intentions of this AF base.

 

[Roybot]

It's not stupid logic at all, it's the Indian article which is stupid it states "any anti-Indian activity". What "anti-Indian activity" has this "military outpost" actually prevented? None, that's the point. Indian has an an outpost and air field there for years. Although we know the real intentions of this AF base.

And you are supposed to be privy to such information because?

The Indian "military outpost" at the Ayni airbase, around 15 km from Tajik capital Dushanbe, also helps New Delhi keep tabs on its economic and strategic interests in Central Asia as well as "any anti-Indian activity" in the terrorism-infested Af-Pak region.

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/indian...litary-hospital-tajikistan.html#ixzz2Qmc8ztXJ

There is no mention of prevention.

0/10 for Comprehension skills.

 

[A1Kaid]

Follow the links and educate yourself:

India Reportedly Basing Helicopters, Fighter Jets In Tajikistan | EurasiaNet.org
Terror bases in Tajikistan need to be shut-down | Rupee News
India


Multiple links are given so that you in extreme denial don't question the authenticity of the links.

The only credible link you have there is Eurasia.net and that article is from 2011.


Now this article is from Eurasia.net from 2010 and it states the Ayni AF Base leased by the Indians has been dormant and idle for years.

Ayni air base in Tajikistan was supposed to become a showpiece for India. In the mid-2000s, India's military began renovating the facility, and New Delhi appeared poised in 2006 to announced that Ayni had become operational. But four years later, the base sits largely dormant - an airfield without any fighter jets.

The reason that Ayni is still idle, many in Dushanbe believe, is Russia: Moscow does not want any other country to have use of the base. "They [Tajik officials] don't know what to do with this airbase. We don't need it for ourselves, but to give it to someone else would create problems with other countries," said Faridoon Khodizoda, a political analyst in Dushanbe.

Why is Tajikistan's Ayni Air Base Idle? | EurasiaNet.org

And you are supposed to be privy to such information because?



There is no mention of prevention.

0/10 for Comprehension skills.

It implies prevention, doesn't explicitly state prevention. Since you bring up comprehension skills you've clearly demonstrated you have none. Not wasting my time on you any further, you can't even keep up with the basics.

 

[Ashoka The Great]

The only credible link you have there is Eurasia.net and that article is from 2011.


Now this article is from Eurasia.net from 2010 and it states the Ayni AF Base leased by the Indians has been dormant and idle for years.



Why is Tajikistan's Ayni Air Base Idle? | EurasiaNet.org




It implies prevention, doesn't explicitly state prevention. Since you bring up comprehension skills you've clearly demonstrated you have none. Not wasting my time on you any further, you can't even keep up with the basics.

How about Ferkhor airbase? huh?
And what makes you think that everything that is happening behind the gates of the airbase will be shared with rest of the world? Afterall INDIA has invested too much in their airbases and now this hospital, what do you think these investments are for ? Only for goodwill?

 

[Roybot]

It implies prevention, doesn't explicitly state prevention. Since you bring up comprehension skills you've clearly demonstrated you have none. Not wasting my time on you any further, you can't even keep up with the basics.

It "implies" prevention. Excellent.

Its your inference, the article has no where implied prevention. Don't blame us for your illogical inference.

 

[Cherokee]

Faorkor Air Base Stations our Mig 29 . For Ayni Air Base Negotiations between India , Russia and Tajikistan is going on .

 

[shiv]

Anyways, those are there to be activated in case of extreme situations like surprise SEAD attacks in case of war ( extremely extremely unlikely situation ) and other emergency situations like airplane hijack and so many other things. This hospital is like a clean chit to indian military officials to be present there without a fuss and do as much counter intelligence as possible !

 

[danish_vij]

It's not going to serve much of a "geo-strategic" advantage or benefit, it's really just a waste of money a show-off move more than anything else. Having a small military "hospital" isn't really going to "strengthen geo-strategic footprint".




Yes, this small "military outpost" is going to prevent "any anti-Indian activity", it sure helped with the bombing of the Indian embassy in 2008. This is how you know the idiotic Indian media wrote this stuff, and fortunately for us this is what population of that country consumes as brain food.

Though on the bright side, at least Tajikistan is earning good profits off the lease, these days growing number of countries have their hands in the Indian pockets, the Russians, Tajiks, Israelis, and French.

sorry....but y do u think that u r super dooper genius?.....u are questioning the move of a govt. which is running better than urs?
do u think those taking decisions are mad and running our country since 1947??what will india get after showing of!!?? please get a lyf man dude please.....if u r so smart and intelligent then please go and serve ur country!!! till then

 

[Alfa-Fighter]

It's not stupid logic at all, it's the Indian article which is stupid it states "any anti-Indian activity". What "anti-Indian activity" has this "military outpost" actually prevented? None, that's the point. India has had an an outpost and air field there for years. Although we know the real intentions of this AF base.

The why your ISI, Army, Govt , saying India Proving Arms to balochs

This things is used to provide Air Cover if and when Required.

 

[IND151]

India has quietly airlifted a military hospital, with doctors, paramedics and equipment, to Tajikistan as part of the deepening “strategic partnership” with the energy-rich central Asian country that shares borders with Afghanistan, China, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

India already has over 100 Indian military personnel stationed at the Ayni airbase in Tajikistan, a country that also shares close proximity to ******************-Kashmir (***), as a kind of a “military outpost”. The new hospital will serve to further strengthen India’s geo-strategic footprint in the crucial Central Asian region.

Defence ministry sources say two of the newly-acquired C-130J “Super Hercules” aircraft of the IAF airlifted medical stores, equipment and 55 personnel over the last month to establish the “India-Tajik Friendship Hospital” in southern Tajikistan.

“The 50-bed hospital will treat both military as well as civilian people,” said a source. The setting up of the hospital comes at a time when vice-president Hamid Ansari is on a visit to the landlocked country to further cement the bilateral strategic partnership and well as expand its “Connect Central Asia Policy” to build stronger linkages with the five Central Asian countries.

This is not the first time that India has established a hospital in Tajikistan, which shares a 1,400-km with Afghanistan. In the 1990s, India had run a famous field hospital at Farkor on the Tajik-Afghan border to treat wounded fighters from the then Northern Alliance that was battling the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

It was at the very same hospital that the Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masood was pronounced dead after being assassinated just two days before the 9/11 terror strikes in 2001. But around a decade ago, India had inexplicably shut down the hospital.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon’s visit to India last August, during which the long-standing bilateral partnership was elevated to a strategic partnership, had then laid the groundwork for the new hospital.

With a broad convergence of views on security matters and cross-border terrorism, the close equation with Tajikistan becomes even more important for India now in the backdrop of the drawdown of US-led international forces from Afghanistan by 2014.

The Indian “military outpost” at the Ayni airbase, around 15 km from Tajik capital Dushanbe, also helps New Delhi keep tabs on its economic and strategic interests in Central Asia as well as “any anti-Indian activity” in the terrorism-infested Af-Pak region.

Indian Army, IAF and Border Roads Organisation personnel had worked hard to upgrade the airbase, which includes extension of the runway and construction of three aircraft hangars, an air-control tower and perimeter fencing around the base, at a cost of over Rs 100 crore.




India airlifts military hospital to Tajikistan to strengthen geo-strategic footprint in Central Asia | idrw.org

 

[neehar]

It's not going to serve much of a "geo-strategic" advantage or benefit, it's really just a waste of money a show-off move more than anything else. Having a small military "hospital" isn't really going to "strengthen geo-strategic footprint".




Yes, this small "military outpost" is going to prevent "any anti-Indian activity", it sure helped with the bombing of the Indian embassy in 2008. This is how you know the idiotic Indian media wrote this stuff, and fortunately for us this is what population of that country consumes as brain food.

Though on the bright side, at least Tajikistan is earning good profits off the lease, these days growing number of countries have their hands in the Indian pockets, the Russians, Tajiks, Israelis, and French.

yes its just a show off..investments in afghanistan is also a show off and its just conincidental that majority of afghans love indians to u.s..its also a show off that we trade with iran inspite of sactions on it.its also a show off that we constructed chahbahaar port and a road to afghanistan..its also a show off regarding the farkor base..so u dont need to worry now..except u cant do anything in the future when we become fully operational i those region...