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My darling Dhoti!
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 22, 2005 10:43 pm
Re: # 11

HAHAHAHAAAA!!!! omer sharif rocks!!
Gen. Musharraf Visits Delhi
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 22, 2005 10:36 pm
Re: # 1

kaurasach on April 22, 2005 10:28am PT

i think its exactly this mistrust that has to change. musharraf too could have said a lot of things about the indian leadership, as it was essentially elements within the fascist BJP that sabotaged the agra summit. dont consider it pakistans weakness to show magnanimity. musharrafs heart is in the right place right now. it would be in the interest of south asia for the indians to leave their complexes aside and sit down and talk like humans.
Mystery Ball called “Doosra”
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 14, 2005 08:31 pm
Re: # 6
sadly, the only solution worthy of the indian crowds is what has been done in calcutta (i believe its calcutta), where the crowds have been caged into the stands like animals. hahahaa....
F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 14, 2005 08:26 pm

good one shri arjun...did you think of that all by yourself, or were you being pleasured by shri hashish and he helped you out with that? must have really wracked your pea for that!! man, you are a genius!
From Photo Sessions to Reality
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 12, 2005 09:06 pm

i should add that the government of pakistan is aware of this and is trying its best. they`re not just sitting around. as they say, `rome was not built in a day.` this might take years to change. the local governments, national reconstruction bureau (NRB) and the law and justice ministry are working together to formulate a draft and a law to bring into effect fundamental changes in the legal system. mukhtar mai is not, as someone foolishly remarked, a victim of her faith or her sex. if that were true, there would be no rapes in india. and we all know what happened in gujrat (by the way, narendra modi is out and about strutting his dhoti, scot free after having murdered 1000 innocent civilians. so much for justice in india) she`s a victim of pakistans unfortunate feudal society, where man is on top no matter what. had there been a more islamic system or setup in place, the animal(s) who commited this would be in jail facing life sentences. it will take time for this system to unravel.
F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 12, 2005 08:54 pm
Re: # 173
not at all. i can assure you i am not the fanatic that shri arjun and shri harish are. quite the opposite. a hundred people on this board will testify to who the fanatic among me and shri arjun and shri harish. just read shri arjun`s iLog, and you`ll see who hates who for the sake of hating. i just feel it necessary to place my boot in strategic positions of arjun`s hairy ass so that he knows what he`s actually worth. the same goes for his boyfriend. but then again, i always enjoy it, and always come out on top. so its a win win for me. :) regards,
F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 9, 2005 09:34 pm
Re: # 141
here you go crack smoker. i even did the math for you at the end there, since i know your protein deficient mind wouldnt be able to handle such large numbers.....

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/816/

The UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (known as UNMOGIP) issued a press release on Tuesday Sep 16, 2003 calling on “the parties involved in the Kashmir issue to observe the “International Day of Peace” on September 21 and appeals to them to initiate a ceasefire and to do their best to prolong the duration of any cessation of hostilities for as long as possible. The conflict over Jammu and Kashmir has cost many lives, caused much tragedy and could, sadly, continue to affect the stability of the region for years to come. It is the UNMOGIP’s hope that the parties to the conflict will embrace this opportunity to lay down their arms and observe the International Day of Peace”, unquote. Coincidentally a senior US diplomat was visiting Srinagar when UNMOGIP issued this call, this combined to infuriate the Indians. On the other hand it gave heart to the freedom fighters within Kashmir that there was renewed western interest. Even though there has been far greater violence in Kashmir than in any other area in the world in the recent past, till Kargil came around in 1999 Kashmir was generally ignored by the western media, a benign neglect that glossed over decades of brutal Indian atrocities on the Kashmiri people. Kargil was a watershed that force-fed Kashmir back into international consciousness as well as media focus, the dispute is now seen by western powers as a major potential nuclear flashpoint.

The Indians have protested that UNMOGIP abused its authority by issuing their call and said they would take up the matter with the UN HQ in New York. For the record, UNMOGIP was set up in 1947-48 to monitor the Cease-Fire Line (CFL) that divided the opposing forces after the war that ensued when India occupied Kashmir by use of subterfuge and brute force. Elements of Kashmiri State and civil forces had combined with Pakistani irregulars to resist the blatant Indian occupation. India maintains that when the Line of Control (LOC) was delineated after the 1971 Indo-Pak War, the CFL ceased to exist and UNMOGIP became redundant. This is neither the understanding of either the UN HQ or of Pakistan, otherwise the Observer’s Group would have been wound up a long time ago. In addition the very name UNMOGIP suggests that it includes intervention on India – Pakistan issues. If India does not accept this, why was UNMOGIP created, as a coffee club? On the one hand India keeps claiming that infiltrators are crossing over to indulge in “cross-border terrorism”, on the other hand they refuse Pakistan requests to increase UNMOGIP surveillance by increasing the number of ground observers to stop the alleged infiltration, there has also been international suggestions for heliborne surveillance teams along the LOC.

It is no surprise that with its usual arrogance and obstinacy, India flatly rejected the UNMOGIP proposal. Though there were some reservations on the Pakistani side, in the greater interest of peace and tranquility in the region Pakistan’s reaction has been different. While maintaining that symbolic observance of the cease-fire has no virtually effect on the ground because of the obdurate Indian intransigence, Pakistan welcomed UNMOGIP proposal and said we would observe “International Peace Day” on Sep 21 in all sincerity. Look at the statistics for the period of one year since Sep 21, 2002, the last time the “International Peace Day” was observed. During this period of one year India has lobbed as many as 80000 artillery shells and 120000 mortar rounds into Azad Kashmir. The casualties on our side of the LOC have been heavy, other than uniformed personnel, 127 civilians have been killed and 499 wounded, a overwhelming number of these are children, the primary target of Indian attacks. There have been more than 200 violations by aerial Remote Powered Vehicles (RPVA). If we were to add up all the casualties due to the terrorist attacks within India during the period since Sep 21, 2002, that India blames on “Pakistan-based terrorists” the casualty figures are far less than those the Indians have inflicted in their ruthless artillery and mortar attacks in the past year. {And it is nothing compared to the average of about 7500 Kashmiris killed and about 25000 injured every year, year after year, by Indian occupation forces within Kashmir since 1989}.

7500*15 years=112500 casualties
F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 9, 2005 07:24 pm
Re: # 142
calling me names will not get you anywhere. perhaps you should look around and see why i had to say what i did. control your fellow countrymen and it will not come to this. i was not the aggressor. i was just defending what i saw right. so stay out of this, otherwise my boot will be up your skinny ass as it already has been up your fellow baboons shri arjun and shri hashish`s. hahahaaa...
F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 9, 2005 07:08 pm
Re: # 136

funny coming from a bony veggie samosa eater as yourself. the problem with all you guys is that you`ve always underestimated pakistan. and quite frankly, once you do that, you`ve not only lost the battle, you`ve lost the war. you and your boyfriends vivek and shri arjun cannot stand the concept of a pakistan. it ruins your crazy hindutva policies of an `akhand bharat.` to pursue this dream, india will go to any lengths, even thinking itself a superpower capable of producing jet engines, all of which eventually fall out of the air like birdshit into the shit hole we all call india! so go ahead, make your lame attempts at urdu poetry.

#140
as i`ve already said, i am not sure who you think is deluded. its not pakistan that dreams itself a superpower when it has 300 million poor people lying naked on the streets of calcutta and bihar. its not pakistan that thinks it can produce tanks and then waste hundreds of millions of rupees in state taxes, and then stupidly try to make a jet engine for its pathetic LCA and nearly kill the pilot inside of it because the engine blew up!! perhaps you should buy a dictionary shri arjun and look up `deluded.` your george bush complex of using words you clearly do not know is not the best of ideas.
F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 8, 2005 10:05 pm

yummmmmyyyy..........400 indian soldiers put of their shame for serving the indian army! they must be thanking pakistan now!! hahahaa.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1703495.stm


Coffin scandal rages in India
Protesters in Delhi demand resignation of Fernandes
Kashmir is a hugely sensitive issue in India
The Indian parliament was adjourned on Wednesday for the second day running as the opposition demanded the resignation of Defence Minister George Fernandes over an army coffin scandal.

Both houses of parliament were adjourned over the affair which centres on a report that the government paid vastly inflated sums for coffins for soldiers killed in Kashmir in 1999.


Nobody will forgive those involved for having purchased coffins that had to be subsequently rejected (HAHAHAHAHAAAA)

Indian state radio

Not only were the 500 aluminium coffins overpriced, but the US-based supplier failed to meet Indian specifications. (THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR TRUSTING YOUR `STRATEGIC PARTNER`)

Soldiers killed fighting separatists in Indian-administered Kashmir are regarded as martyrs by many Indians and opposition deputies shouted down the government with cries of ``coffin thieves``.

``Nobody will forgive those involved for having purchased coffins that had to be subsequently rejected,`` Indian state radio commented on Wednesday.

Mr Fernandes only returned as defence minister in October after being forced out of office over a scandal over weapons purchases.

He has refused to resign, saying he has asked the US company for a refund

Public anger

More than 400 Indian soldiers were killed in the 1999 conflict which began when Islamic militants infiltrated the Kargil sector of Kashmir from Pakistan.

A report in The Times of India newspaper says the Comptroller and Auditor General found that the government had paid an American company $2,500 for each of the 500 coffins.

Indian troops
The fighting in Kashmir continues with one militant reported killed on Wednesday
But five years earlier, it had only paid $172 per coffin.

Moreover, many of the coffins were never used, being rejected as too heavy.

``What is really shocking is that the coffins of the martyrs were bought at an exorbitant price,`` said the chief whip of the opposition Congress Party, Pryaranjan Dasmunshi.

``They have no right to stay in office, until the prime minister explains to the house.``

For Indian radio, the anger of opposition deputies was a genuine reflection of public feeling:

``The mood of the parliamentarians amply reflected the shock and anger faced by each and every Indian on these sordid revelations.``

Ministry`s reply

The Defence Ministry says it had to buy aluminium coffins so that the bodies of Indian soldiers could be sent home in a dignified manner.

It said that an order for 500 coffins was made with the company Buitron and Baize to be delivered in consignments.

When the first batch of coffins was delivered, it was discovered to be sub-standard and that led to the cancellation of the order for the remaining 350.

The Ministry of Defence says the company was in breach of contract and is asking for some of its money back.

F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 8, 2005 09:56 pm
Re: # 123

keep deluding yourself. such a common indian inferiority complex shield. why dont you go research the scandal that erupted over coffins in the indian army. you army couldnt even keep up! SSG commandos were so deep in your territory and were causing such heavy damage, the bhindians had to buy coffins from other places! haha. but of course since you`re an indian like shri arjun, you have an inferiority complex when it comes to pakistan!
F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 8, 2005 09:29 pm
Re: # 131
yeah keep dreaming veggie samosa. man, a lack of protein really can screw up someones brain. i can believe you buffoons still believe the US wants to be your `strategic partner.` pakistan can match whatever india can throw at it. its only going to get worse from here on out. advanced F-16s, JF-17s armed with swedish data links, an italian radar and BVR missiles, not to mention the deadly chinese J-10, which the US navy has admitted is more potent than its own super hornet. go ahead, tell your bhangee government to buy F-16s and F-18s. you`ll be falling right into place.....
F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 7, 2005 10:55 pm

and finally, despite the below mentioned incident, the magnamity of the pakistani players and the pakistani nation....



Pak players visit cancer hospital, donate money

From our correspondent

JAMSHEDPUR: Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq and his teammates visited the Tata Cancer Hospital in Jamshedpur on Thursday and ended up feeling that there were so many more important things in life to deal with than the game of cricket.

``You go and meet these cancer stricken children and you wonder why all this fuss about a cricket series when there are so many other more important issues facing humanity, like finding a permanent cure for something tragic like cancer,`` Inzamam said in a pensive mood after the hour-long visit.

But for the young boys and girls in the children’s ward, just meeting the Pakistani cricketers was a dream come true for them and cheered them up for the day.

Inzamam was visibly moved when he was introduced to a five-year-old child who has been given 20 more days to live after suffering from blood cancer.

But the 14-year old Ismail also suffering from the same disease would not let go of Inzamam’s arm during a round of the hospital. ``Uncle, aap ko ghussa nahin karna chahiye,`` was the advice he gave to his hero whom he watched in quite a rage after geting run out in the second one-dayer in Visakhapatnam.

As the doctors and nurses taking the Pakistani cricketers around explained the various diseases and terminal illnesses afflicting the young children and older people, a number of the Pakistani players were clearly emotional and felt depressed.

``So innocent and vulnerable. It just makes you pray again and again and thank God for his blessings,`` wondered Danish Kaneria said after meeting with a 21-year-old girl who is in the early stages of throat cancer.

Shahid Afridi proved a favourite with most of the patients and he cheered things up when he recalled some funny incidents from his career for the benefit of the avid listeners.

Shahid, whose father himself is very ill and bed ridden, said visiting the hospital was the nicest thing the team could have done in India.

Inzamam, before leaving, had a quick impromptu meeting with some of his players and then announced a donation of Rs 100,000 for the hospital.
F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 7, 2005 10:40 pm
Re: # 113
when an army gets as whooped as it did, its quite expected that it would conduct an investigation over what happened. no one in pakistan is brainwashed as to what happened in kargil. yes pakistan made some mistakes in 1971, but so did india. was there a report there? why did india intrude in a personal matter? but theres no mistakes about kargil and that pakistan army commandos were butt raping skinny indian soldiers. no one denies this. :P

and yes, here`s a piece that exemplifies impeccable indian character and hospitality. the indian mind at work. i would guess some shiv sena fundo/RSS gaywad did this....



Fan held for hurling stone at Pakistan team bus


JAMSHEDPUR, April 7: An Indian cricket fan has been arrested for throwing a stone at the Pakistani cricket team bus, shattering a window and narrowly missing captain Inzamamul Haq, an official said on Thursday.

The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon after the Indian and Pakistani teams arrived at Ranchi airport on their way to Jamshedpur, where the third One-day International will be played on Saturday.

As the Pakistan team bus left the airport, a stone was hurled from the roadside where thousands had gathered to catch a glimpse of the cricketers, according to Pakistan team manager Salim Altaf.

``The stone broke the window pane and just missed Inzamam who was sitting nearby,`` Altaf said. ``I believe the man responsible has been arrested.`` Pakistan cancelled a scheduled practice session in Jamshedpur on Wednesday evening because of the incident, Altaf said.

``The boys were a bit shaken so Inzamam asked the team to take the rest of the day off,`` he said. ``I would like to believe it was a stray incident and we have not asked for any extra security. We would prefer to forget it and get on with the game.``

Pakistan trail 0-2 in the six-match one-day series after India won the opening two games in Cochin and Visakhapatnam. Pakistan`s first tour of India since 1999, which began on Feb 28, had gone off peacefully till Wednesday`s stone-throwing incident. -AFP
F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 7, 2005 10:17 pm
Re: # 112
heres a kick in your ass. i hope pimples dont form like they have in your fellow countrymens shri harish and shri arjuns. the second story appeared on MSNBC. i`ve added the first one just for good measure. shows what a chronic inferiority complex there is in bhindu land. veggie samosa? :P





Pakistani balloon causes panic in Himachal

Chamba: A Pakistani balloon found near village Chask Bhatori in Pangi tribal valley of Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh, adjoining Jammu and Kashmir`s Doda district, has caused surprise and panic.

The balloon, inscribed with slogans such as `Pak fauj ko slaam`, `Pak Zindabad` and `Dil Pakistan`, was discovered by villagers on Monday, who immediately informed police officials at Killar police station, the valley headquarters.

The balloon, measuring about two-and-a-half feet in diameter, was later kept in police custody.

Police sources said it appeared to be one of the balloons flown in the air by the Pakistan government on the occasion of their Independence Day on August 14.


As far as the microsatellites are concerned, I have something else to spank you with:


http://home.datawest.net/dawog/Space/e20010430secret_empire%20(space%20threat).htm

MSNBC.com
April 28, 2001

The Secret Empire: The U.S. Military In The 21st Century

The Threat Over The Horizon
Military cites 1998 failure of satellite as an omen

By Jonathan Broder, Special to MSNBC.com

WASHINGTON — How damaging would a concerted attack on American satellite systems be? Pentagon officials cite the 1998 malfunction of the Galaxy IV satellite, which shut down 80 percent of pagers in the United States, as an example of the disruptions that could follow an attack. The episode was deemed an accident. China, however, made it known that future malfunctions might not be accidental.

``FOR COUNTRIES that could never win a war by using the methods of tanks and planes, attacking the U.S. space system may be an irresistible and most tempting choice,`` said a report in the state-run Xinhua News Agency days after the malfunction.

Along with pager systems, the Galaxy IV failure also disrupted cable and broadcast video feeds, credit card authorization networks and corporate communications systems for weeks.

As things currently stand, satellites the military relies on are no less vulnerable than Galaxy IV.

In January, a two-year study by a panel of generals and civilian defense experts, including Donald Rumsfeld, the man who would become secretary of defense, laid out a host of emerging threats to U.S. satellites:

*Attacks on satellite ground stations: Such assaults could range from a physical attack on stations to computer hackers breaking into the networks that direct the satellites and receive their transmissions.

*Denial and deception: With the means to counter military space systems increasingly available on the international market, countries can foil reconnaissance satellites by learning their orbital and sensor characteristics and then hiding or disguising targets when the satellites fly over.

*Jamming: Many countries, including Russia, China, Iraq, North Korea, Iran and Cuba, possess electronic jamming capabilities to disrupt satellite operations. Pentagon officials say the chances of such capability falling into the hands of terrorist groups or individuals has increased with the miniaturization of jamming devices. Russia now markets a hand-held system the size of a cigarette packet that can jam Global Positioning Satellite transmissions for 50 miles. A slightly larger version can block transmissions for 160 miles. Both could be used not only against U.S. ground forces but also against aircraft.

*Ground lasers: Directed at an orbiting satellite, these high-energy beams can be projected into space to dazzle or blind a satellite’s sensors and cameras. Some U.S. military satellites are equipped with shutters to guard against laser attack, but many are defenseless, the report said.

*Microsatellites and nanosatellites: With the miniaturization of space system technologies, these small satellites range between 200 and 20 pounds and even come in sizes as small as a compact disc player. Highly maneuverable and packed with super-sophisticated electronics, they can zoom up beside other satellites, inspect them with cameras and transmit images back to Earth.

Weaponized microsatellites loaded with rockets or lasers are expected to emerge in the coming years, capable of disrupting, disabling or destroying enemy satellites. Among the countries that possess microsatellite technology are the United States, Russia, China, Israel and Pakistan.

*Nuclear detonation: The explosion of even a small nuclear device in space would destroy or damage nearby satellites and leave lingering radiation that would halt new satellite operations for months. Pentagon officials say all that is needed for an attack like this is a rocket and simple nuclear device. Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Israel and Pakistan, along with the five declared nuclear states, already have missiles that can reach the necessary altitudes, and either possess or are believed to be developing nuclear weapons.

New Technologies

Some technologies to protect U.S. satellites from attack already exist, as a result of SDI research. The most basic is a two-stage missile that is launched from a high-flying F-15 fighter jet and homes in on enemy satellites that are threatening American spacecraft.

Many U.S. military satellites also have been ``hardened`` to protect components against radiation damage from nuclear explosions in space and outfitted with ``stealth`` technology to reduce their radar profiles. Others carry anti-jamming electronics and shutters to deflect enemy lasers. Sensitive surveillance equipment also has been placed on a number of non-military satellites in an effort to diversify and hide intelligence-gathering capability.

New technological efforts involve the development of advanced sensors and methods of propulsion that would enable American satellites to detect and evade pursuing killer satellites. In a strange hybrid of 19th and 21st century technologies, one space firm is experimenting with a satellite propulsion system that runs on steam.

But research is not only confined to purely defensive countermeasures. Next month, in what could be a major advance for space-based offensive weapons, NASA engineers at Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., will test a revolutionary unmanned aerial vehicle that someday may orbit the Earth and, upon command, strike targets elsewhere in space or anywhere on the globe.

Called the Hyper-X, the aerial vehicle has been described by Army sources as a cross between a ballistic missile and cruise missile. Equipped with stealth technology, the Hyper-X uses a new kind of air-breathing jet engine that produces speeds of up to Mach 10, or 7,200 mph at sea level, NASA says. At such hypersonic speeds, the Hyper-X could not be intercepted.

Loaded with a conventional warhead, the Hyper-X also would fall outside the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which bans the deployment of nuclear weapons in space. In its first round of tests, the Hyper-X will be dropped from the wing of a high-flying B-52 bomber. But NASA officials say the new engine technology, known as scramjet — or supersonic combustion ramjets — eventually could open the way for a new generation of reusable space planes that can take off and land like conventional aircraft. In space, such spacecraft also could be used for anti-satellite operation.
F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?
Posted by taqat-e-parvaaz Apr 7, 2005 10:01 pm
eat your words.....
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/SSC/CSER/UOSAT/press/Surrey.html
Located in new purpose-built premises, the Surrey Space Centre, with 130 staff and postgraduate research students, houses state-of-the-art satellite research and construction facilities. The facility’s Mission Operations Centre contains a fully automated satellite tracking and data collection system, currently responsible for nine microsatellites in low-Earth orbit.

Training foreign engineers through its Technology Transfer Programme, the Centre will continue to build on its successes with Korea, Portugal, Pakistan, Chile, South Africa, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia. Through a unique combination of academic and commercial activity, Surrey provide intensive and in depth programmes at relatively low cost and risk, enabling emerging countries to take their first steps into space.

more to feast your eyes....hahahaaaaaa

Indian army confesses to over-estimating N-prowess

By Jawed Naqvi


NEW DELHI, Feb 22: The Indian army had falsely believed that its new found nuclear prowess would guarantee perpetual peace with Pakistan, the army`s newly released secret assessment of the Kargil fiasco says, according to excerpts published in the Outlook magazine on Monday.

In its cover story headlined ``War Against Error,`` the magazine says that the Indian army ``was shocked and awed by the Kargil war.`` Five years later, the army`s internal report lists the blunders it made, and steps to avert them in the future.

``The battle fought on the icy heights of Kargil between May and July 1999 is one that will not be easily forgotten by India,`` the magazine says. ``Five years after a war in which 474 officers and men lost their lives, there has been much introspection in the country`s security establishment on what went right, and what went wrong, in Operation Vijay.``

The peace process, kicked off by the Lahore bus ride of Prime Minister Vajpayee, and the fact that both India and Pakistan had gone ``overtly nuclear`` led the army top brass to believe that war was a distant possibility,`` the army assessment admits.

The assessment also recognises another factor ``that caused much heartburn within the army`s higher echelons`` - the fact that there were no inputs from the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) spy agency.

The decision to take a dispassionate look at the war and to record its history and disseminate it among top generals of the army was taken two years ago when General N.C. Vij took over as the army chief. He had witnessed the conduct of the war at close quarters as the Director-General of Military Operations (DGMO).

Gen Vij decided to put together an internal assessment documenting crucial lessons from that war, culled mostly from top-secret operational notes with the military operations directorate. Such an assessment, it was felt, would help the army`s senior commanders to learn ``valuable lessons of the art of war`` --a war that was fought in recent times and won, albeit after paying a heavy price.

The self-assessment made the army take a hard look at the many blunders that were committed during the Kargil operations - the critical failures, which happened at various levels.

wait, wait.....my favorite part...........hahahahaa


``Senior commanders failed to deliver, the intelligence setup proved ineffective, battalions were led by people too old to climb razor-edge peaks in sub-zero climes (HAHAHAHAHAA), rifles that were introduced midway through the war created problems and the delay in deploying air power during the conflict prolonged the war,`` the report says.

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