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Indian salute to Bangla army
New Delhi, Nov. 22: The Bangladesh Army chief will review the passing-out parade of the National Defence Academy next week, in a rare honour to Dhaka on the 40th anniversary of its liberation and symbolic of New Delhis reach-out to its neighbour.
General Muhammed Abdul Mubeen has been invited to be the reviewing officer at the NDA, Khadakvasla. He will be only the third foreigner to take the salute after the late Chinese Premier Chou En Lai and the former chief of the (former) Royal Nepal Army, General Pyar Jung Thapa.
In a similar gesture, the Sri Lanka Army commander, Lt General Jagath Jayasuriya, will review the parade of cadets passing out of the Indian Military Academy who will be commissioned as officers in the Indian Army.
The visits by the chiefs of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka over the next two weeks signal a sudden upswing in neighbourhood military-diplomatic exchanges.
The army chief, General V.K. Singh, returned from a five-day visit to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan last night. General Singhs visit to the Central Asian countries is part of an effort to prepare for the drawdown of US forces from Afghanistan in 2014.
The last time foreign (Soviet) forces left Afghanistan after occupying it, the Taliban took over and Indias relations with Central Asian countries bordered on the tenuous. This time India is preparing in advance for the imponderables in Afghanistan. This includes reviving a military hospital and helipad at Farkhor in Tajikistan, on the northern border of Afghanistan.
Bangladeshs General Mubeen will review the NDA parade on November 29 in the course of a six-day visit. He is also slated to visit the Para Training School in Agra and the Eastern Command headquarters in Fort William, Calcutta. In between, in New Delhi, he will meet the service chiefs. Bangladesh and India are planning a series of joint military drills in 2012.
Sri Lankas Lt General Jayasuriya was the force commander of the military in the last Eelam war in Vanni in the north-east of the island. Forces under him vanquished the LTTE and neutralised its leadership, including Prabhakaran.
Lt General Jayasuriya is scheduled to visit, apart from the IMA in Dehra Dun, Bodh Gaya, Delhi and Agra.
This week, the chief operations officer of the Bhutanese army, Major General Batoo Tshering, returned to Thimphu after a three-day tour that included a visit to the Central Command headquarters in Lucknow.
Later this month, the Indian Army is also expecting to a host a military team from Myanmar in Bangalore that will visit an army engineers centre and participate in sports and cultural events.
New Delhi, Nov. 22: The Bangladesh Army chief will review the passing-out parade of the National Defence Academy next week, in a rare honour to Dhaka on the 40th anniversary of its liberation and symbolic of New Delhis reach-out to its neighbour.
General Muhammed Abdul Mubeen has been invited to be the reviewing officer at the NDA, Khadakvasla. He will be only the third foreigner to take the salute after the late Chinese Premier Chou En Lai and the former chief of the (former) Royal Nepal Army, General Pyar Jung Thapa.
In a similar gesture, the Sri Lanka Army commander, Lt General Jagath Jayasuriya, will review the parade of cadets passing out of the Indian Military Academy who will be commissioned as officers in the Indian Army.
The visits by the chiefs of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka over the next two weeks signal a sudden upswing in neighbourhood military-diplomatic exchanges.
The army chief, General V.K. Singh, returned from a five-day visit to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan last night. General Singhs visit to the Central Asian countries is part of an effort to prepare for the drawdown of US forces from Afghanistan in 2014.
The last time foreign (Soviet) forces left Afghanistan after occupying it, the Taliban took over and Indias relations with Central Asian countries bordered on the tenuous. This time India is preparing in advance for the imponderables in Afghanistan. This includes reviving a military hospital and helipad at Farkhor in Tajikistan, on the northern border of Afghanistan.
Bangladeshs General Mubeen will review the NDA parade on November 29 in the course of a six-day visit. He is also slated to visit the Para Training School in Agra and the Eastern Command headquarters in Fort William, Calcutta. In between, in New Delhi, he will meet the service chiefs. Bangladesh and India are planning a series of joint military drills in 2012.
Sri Lankas Lt General Jayasuriya was the force commander of the military in the last Eelam war in Vanni in the north-east of the island. Forces under him vanquished the LTTE and neutralised its leadership, including Prabhakaran.
Lt General Jayasuriya is scheduled to visit, apart from the IMA in Dehra Dun, Bodh Gaya, Delhi and Agra.
This week, the chief operations officer of the Bhutanese army, Major General Batoo Tshering, returned to Thimphu after a three-day tour that included a visit to the Central Command headquarters in Lucknow.
Later this month, the Indian Army is also expecting to a host a military team from Myanmar in Bangalore that will visit an army engineers centre and participate in sports and cultural events.
