Indian-Tajikistan Air Base

[Contrarian]

If India has opened a base in Tajikistan, Pakistan should open a base in South eastern China to counter this.

Small countries dont open bases in larger, more prosperous countries

 

[Neo]

Small countries dont open bases in larger, more prosperous countries

Thats correct, we should be looking into Nepal, Srilanka, Maldives or Bangladesh instead.

 

[solid snake]

There is a reason why we have an air force, and we are procuring and maintaining equipment to the sheer level of giving a pretty good darn competition to the Indian Air Force. India during the time of conflict WILL not use the Tajikistan Air Base to attack Pakistan. It simply doesn't have the resources to execute any sort of plan on that level.

Opening a base in China will only increase our ability to challange the IAF. And I don't understand what the difficulty will be in attacking from Tajikistan if the IAF is already stationed there. All they have to do is load the weapons, pick a target and take off. Although because it is far from India, the airfield will be pretty vulnerable to PAF attacks. 4 JF-17s can eliminate that base on the first day of the war.

Small countries dont open bases in larger, more prosperous countries

Pakistan is not a small county. It is larger in both population and area than the UK, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Turkey etc. Countries open bases in other countries allied with them, and China is our main ally.

 

[solid snake]

Thats correct, we should be looking into Nepal, Srilanka, Maldives or Bangladesh instead.

China is the only place where it is worth opening a PAF base. Why? Because Nepal, Sri Lanka or Bangladesh or Maldives present no threat to India. A base in China on the other hand will be pretty secure because India will not dare to violate Chinese air space, as that will drag China into a conflict.

 

[blitz]

What are you guys talking about ? Its a Russian base. India is only there to train some Tajiks in how to operate call centers. Surely you do not intend to attack a Russian airbase during a conflict with India. Thats sheer folly.

Anyways, its just a little outpost, meant to insert special forces in Afghanistan incase the need arises. Why would IAF even need to attack Pakistan from all the way across there ? You are right across the border. Such small bases with no direct land, sea or air link are not used for overt military actions.

Also Pakistan has nothing to worry about. You have the all mighty China to watch your back.

 

[IceCold]

What are you guys talking about ? Its a Russian base. India is only there to train some Tajiks in how to operate call centers. Surely you do not intend to attack a Russian airbase during a conflict with India. Thats sheer folly.

Anyways, its just a little outpost, meant to insert special forces in Afghanistan incase the need arises. Why would IAF even need to attack Pakistan from all the way across there ? You are right across the border. Such small bases with no direct land, sea or air link are not used for overt military actions.

Also Pakistan has nothing to worry about. You have the all mighty China to watch your back.

China will not include in a direct conflict between india and pakistan, all it would give is its moral and economic support to pakistan. Besides Pakistan isnt relying on any paticular country to counter india, we are capable to do it ourselves.

 

[Contrarian]

China is the only place where it is worth opening a PAF base. Why? Because Nepal, Sri Lanka or Bangladesh or Maldives present no threat to India. A base in China on the other hand will be pretty secure because India will not dare to violate Chinese air space, as that will drag China into a conflict.

Neo is right, the countries he mentioned are the only ones possible in which to open bases for Pakistan. China will not allow any foreign military base on its mainland you fool. No modern prosperous country allows that to happen, it implies that the country is almost like a protectorate or inferior in military capabilities or economic to the country owning the base. Japan etc also gave bases to the US after their defeat in WW2.

And secondarily you cannot use the military base for direct/overt strikes, and then count on the host country's umbrella to protect you. Tajik base will not be used for direct attacks, but inserting special forces in CARS, extractions and putting pressure on Pakistan from the opposite end.

The one thing you said right was that Sri Lnka and Maldives will never present any danger to India, neither go against India's wishes. Maldives is almost our protectorate ! SriLanka cannot go against India's interests at all, they have too much at stake.

BD presents the only viable option.

 

[IceCold]

Its useless for a country like pakistan with limited resources to open bases in another country. It will help us no good and instead it will divert our assests and will be a burden on the economy. All we need to make sure that we have an airforce that is capable to defend the skies of the country in a conflict and then counter it with offensive puch to the enemy and PAF is quite capable of that

 

[Neo]

Its useless for a country like pakistan with limited resources to open bases in another country. It will help us no good and instead it will divert our assests and will be a burden on the economy. All we need to make sure that we have an airforce that is capable to defend the skies of the country in a conflict and then counter it with offensive puch to the enemy and PAF is quite capable of that

I second that.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Pakistan should also have a base in Burma.

Malaysia can also be on the cards since they are an Islamic country and more so since Singapore is participating in Exercise Malabar with the Indian, US, Australian and Japanese Navies!

Effective check.

But then US aid to Pakistan and spares may dry up!

 

[BATMAN]

Associated Press of Pakistan - India to be evicted from its Tajikistan’s base under Russian pressure

India to be evicted from its Tajikistan’s base under Russian pressure
New Delhi, September 20 (APP): India will lose its sole overseas military facility at Ayni air base, near Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe, under pressure from Russia.

The Indian daily “The Asian Age” reported on Thursday “Russia is concerned over Delhi’s burgeoning ties with Washington, particularly with regard to likely weapon purchases.”

The daily quoting senior military officials said India’s looking to Washington and other Western suppliers for military hardware was the cause for “Russia leveraging its considerable influence with Tajikistan to try and terminate Delhi’s “loose arrangement” regarding Ayni if it declined to be “cooperative.”

India’s repairing and upgrading of the Ayni military base for around $1.77 million was completed earlier this year, nearly 24 months behind schedule under the 2002 bilateral defence agreement with Tajikistan.

The ministry of defence (MoD) has been awaiting signal from the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, to officially start operating from the base.

The daily further said the Ministry of Defence had reportedly sought from the Cabinet Committee for a “formal mandate” to transfer some of the IAF’s assets to the base enabling India to increase its “strategic reach” in a troubled area and to secure its increasing energy needs from the Central Asian Region (CAR).

Military planners also consider this base as a “limited, yet significant” platform to press Special Forces into a hostile region in response to any threat from the “volatile Afghanistan-Pakistan arc.”

The Tajikistan base will also serve as a conduit for India to provide aid to war-torn Afghanistan.

India enjoys annually defence business over $1,500 million with Russia and since the 1960s, it has acquired Soviet and Russian military equipment worth over $30 billion, the daily said.