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India : Singapore ‘leases’ IAF base for 5 yrs
 
BY : DNAINDIA

Singapore ‘leases’ IAF base for 5 yrs



India on Tuesday signed an agreement with Singapore which will allow the island nation’s air force personnel to train at the Indian Air Force base in Kalaikunda, West Bengal, for the next five years.

Singapore is one of the world’s smallest countries, with its 704 square km territory scattered across 60 islands. The country’s location affords it a great geo-strategic significance. But to take advantage of that, Singapore needs a well-trained military. And India is expected to play a crucial part in fulfilling that demand.According to Tuesday’s agreement, Singapore Air Force fighters will train at the IAF base at notified times.

Although Singapore has already carried out such training missions in India, New Delhi has never ‘leased’ out its military installations to foreign countries on a long-term basis.

A brief government statement announcing the agreement did not mention the terms of payment.

Defence officials said a deal to train the Singapore Army in select Indian Army bases is being considered.

The agreement to lease Kalaikunda was signed by India’s defence secretary, Vijay Singh, and Singapore’s permanent secretary of defence Chiang Chie Foo. Chiang is leading a delegation to India for the fourth ‘India-Singapore Defence Policy Dialogue’.

“During the dialogue, both sides expressed the need to intensify cooperation,” the statement said. “The regional security aspect, from Indian and Singaporean perspectives, were discussed.”
 
 
 
   
 
 
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    #1 Author: avatar_singh (10 October 2007 18:46)
     
    how pakistan was destroyed just like india is being destroyed now by traitor manmohan singh an coolie working for angloamerican races.
    should be eye openr for those idito indians who thought america would punish pakistan after 9/11/

    http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/2587/81/

    http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/2587/81/

    Pakistan’s Mercenary Elites Print E-mail
    Click Name for Bio of Shahid Alam
    Tuesday, 09 October 2007
    by M. Shahid Alam

    In Pakistan today we encounter a paradox crying for an explanation; it is a paradox, moreover, whose exploration can bring some clarity to the predicament of the Islamicate today.

    In January 2002, when President George Bush defined his near-term agenda for waging wars, he fixed his sights on Iraq, Iran and North Korea: the ‘axis of evil,’ marked for regime change. These countries were targeted – we were told – because they were developing ‘weapons of mass destruction.’ In the case of Iraq and Iran, this was only a cover. More likely, the two countries were targeted because they opposed Israeli hegemony. Perhaps, too, the US wanted their oil.

    Oddly, Pakistan was not targeted for regime change. Yes, Pakistan has no oil. But the US-Israel axis could find her culpable on several other counts, each quite damnable. Pakistan is the only Islamicate country to possess nuclear weapons; she was guilty of nuclear proliferation; she was the chief patron of the Taliban regime; she has been accused by India of supporting cross-border terrorism in Kashmir; and, on the first two counts, Israel could tag Pakistan as the most serious threat to her security.

    Why was Pakistan not being targeted?

    This question has gathered even greater force over the past two years; and for two reasons. After being stalled for a while by the ferocity of the Iraqi resistance, US plans for war against Iran are once again gathering steam. In the past few weeks, Israelis, Neocons, Christian Zionists and assorted hawks have again been baying for Iranian blood. Now, the US Senate too has joined the chorus. On September 26, with an overwhelming vote, it virtually handed President Bush the license to wage war against Iran.

    At the same time, there is little doubt now that Pakistan is ‘hosting’ both al-Qaida and the Taliban. Now rejuvenated, both organizations are operating from ‘liberated’ territories in Pakistan’s Waziristan. More ominously, last July, Pakistani allies of the Taliban dared to challenge the authority of the state in Pakistan’s capital. And since their rout there, they have continued to mount deadly attacks on the Pakistan army.
     
     
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