No, just a calculated move that seems to have tightened the scruff around the neck of Pakistani diplomacy.
As for Russia and Pakistan's diplomacy, u can chill coz no matter what Pakistan offers we know India has earned the trust of Russia enough to know that
YES they will be siding with us at "difficult" times, no matter what ties Pak has with Russia. After all the cancelling and visiting we can guess this much by now.
correction: "we-will-do-this-and-that-here-and-there" does not look plausible only on pdf but of course there must be more than just a simple plan that we don't know about lest the continuous investment in Afghanistan would not have been possible.
As for the " situation on ground " you like me are privy to information produced only by the mass media, so the situation on ground whatever it may be only the Indian government knows.
As for Iran, there are already 2 ports in play apart from the rapid infrastructure development, so why can't we not bank on them to support our resupplying needs?
As for logistics, supply or trade to Tajikistan is not limited to just Farkhor.
The rapidly advancing INSTC or the International North-South Transport Corridor will eventually pan out helping in both trade and resupply during an exigency. New sectors like IT and medicine which are coming up with the help of India is again another brick in the INSTC fort.
The newly built Astara port in Iran supporting the International North-South Transport Corridor is an example.
Tajikistan-India trade will be facilitated through the trans-Afghan corridor.
India, Tajikistan working on an easy route for trade: Hamid Ansari - Economic Times
India is extending its diplomacy which is why
in case of hostilities we won't face the backlash and will more or less encircle the threat. INSTC is a result of such a diplomacy.
A Russia-Kazakhstan-Kyrgyztan-Tajikistan route doesn't mean that India has to pay everything for the trade route, its multilateral trade that benefits all the central Asian countries basically the CIS and when trade advances routes will EVENTUALLY BECOME MORE ACCESSIBLE AND CHEAPER. So they themselves are taking the initiative.Trade happens between those countries as well.
Again the INSTC here too comes into play with consistent trade all of these "logistics" as you say will vanish. True it will not be easy but neither will it be extremely difficult.
CIS states include Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Turkmenistan and Ukraine are unofficial member states.
PressTV - Iran opens new gateway between North-South Transportation Corridor
"it has to bypass all countries which consider India as hostile"???????????????????
And where did you come up with such a notion?
And if u really don't know, India has good relations with all the CIS.
But we are getting ahead of our selves, and u r banking too much on Afghanistan's failure.
Let everything pan out coz till then everything is good for us and threatening for you.
And I really doubt everything will change in a day.
This basically means Farkhor Air Base will eventually become more accessible and won't just be a
lonely outpost.
In any case a supply route via Kazakhstan from Russia or Afghanistan from India is not impossible either as u so often suggest.
Surely the IAF would have thought of a reason better than us pdf members.
I think you are confused & u have got it the other way round.
Why would Islamabad, if they even know about the lethality of Farkhor, pronounce its existence to the world further showing their weakening grip in the region???Have u ever thought of that???
So...........NO, no headlines in media would have been in order and if we can gather from the notorious media wing of the ISI which has been known to screen news and "eliminate" media people(Pakistan on the Brink by Ahmed Rashid).
I think u are either misinformed or just full of premature evaluation coz the Oman listening station is 400km away from Pak not 400miles.
Unless Oman is on the Antarctic and beyond it u r incorrect.
Joint Cipher Bureau responsible for sigint and cryptanalysis are known to work alongside RAW and IB and are also known to use high tech equipment including radomes.
Up and coming companies like Vedant telemetry are known to make both ground based and airborne radomes.
And SIGINT is a process that includes voice interception, direction finding, traffic analysis, et cetra and not just 1 process.
Only recently did IAF float a tender for 9 CONJAM and SIGINT planes.
And Physics has literally nothing to do with it, the ECHELON and the Onyx are such examples of long ranged signal intelligence network.
"reluctancy to allow Indians a stronger footprint"??????????
I guess u can still read the heading of this thread, coz it
IS happening as we speak.
And if the Russians were so reluctantly they would have done so openly.
Your assumptions are literally based on bias and prejudice.
And so it is.
India eager to join Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline: Iran official - Tehran Times
You actually think Pak will deny something for the the sake of denying India?
And no, China has nothing to do with an Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline for which accountability of loss if ever in Pakistan will be accountable by Iran themselves, is being negotiated.
And of course if everything fails there is the underwater pipeline which are still in talks.
True the base is right now not mature enough but yes the time will come when it will be, looking at the rate of progress it doesn't look impossible either.
Reluctant Russians????
Regardless, the base is there and so is the increasing Indian influence.
And unfortunately for you warm ain't enough warm enough for Pakistan, so forget about Russians ever helping Pak in an exigency.
We know we still hold that luxury.
And the only threat perception now is terrorism, and we can be sure they won't side with Pakistan.