Pakistan blames India for exclusion from ‘SAARC Satellite’ project

[JohnyD]

animosity may be good but not jealousy!

 

[hussain0216]

Actually no, you did not let the plebiscite take place and legally it acceded to India. At least check facts before telling us you ate. lots of beans.

its a muslim state,

it wanted Partition like all other Pakistanis

it bordered Pakistan and was a straight forward accession

allowing a hindu king to determine the future of a muslim majority state is why we have 70 years of turmoil and your soldiers being humiliated and stoned

 

[MilSpec]

Pakistan on day blamed India for its exclusion from the ‘SAARC Satellite’ project, saying New Delhi was not willing to develop the venture on a collaborative basis. Pakistan’s claim came on a day when India successfully launched the ‘South Asia Satellite’ to provide communications and disaster support to neighbouring countries.

“During the 18th SAARC Summit, India offered to ‘gift’ a satellite to SAARC member states, to be named as the so-called ‘SAARC Satellite’. Subsequently, however, India made it clear that it would build, launch and operate the satellite solely,” Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said.

However, its registration with International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was to be done as a ‘SAARC Satellite’, he said

Zakaria claimed that Pakistan, which has its own space programme at an advanced level, was ready to share its expertise and technological know-how and was keen to participate in the project.

“However, as India was not willing to develop the project on a collaborative basis, it was not possible for Pakistan to support it as a regional project under the umbrella of SAARC. The Satellite was then renamed as ‘South Asia Satellite’ as the project was taken out of the SAARC ambit,” he said.

Seven of the eight SAARC countries — India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives — are part of the ambitious project.

Giving a fillip to India’s new age space diplomacy and “neighbourhood first” policy, the Rs 235 crore satellite GSAT-9 built as part of a Rs 450 crore project and touted as an ‘invaluable gift’ to India’s neighbours is seen as a significant move in countering Chinese interests in the region. The project is funded entirely by India.

The cuboid-shaped 2,230 kg satellite named SAS will enable a full range of services to the neighbours, including in telecommunication, television, direct-to-home, VSATs, tele-education and telemedicine. The South Asian Satellite (SAS) mission life is 12 years.

http://indianexpress.com/article/wo...clusion-from-saarc-satellite-project-4642546/

Zakaria claimed that Pakistan, which has its own space programme at an advanced level, was ready to share its expertise and technological know-how and was keen to participate in the project.

 

[Viny]

It's like saying Russia build, launch and operate satellite solely and call it "gift" for UN security council nations. Will US and other security council nations accept it?

How absurd does this sound...why would Pakistan let india build and operate a satellite?, who knows what devices are installed in it that could be gathering Intel on Pakistan.

Whether Pakistan is part of the project or not, if its a spy satellite, then once its up there it would be doing its job isnt it.

What can Pakistan contribute in a satellite project anyway?

Green Color :p

Uplink/downlinks is one thing, what if India had installed some spying devices? Better safe than sorry.

Yes no one cares, care to tell this to indian news who were trying to present pakistan as a bad guy which did not wanted to participate. FO has now clear the nonsense india was trying to portray.

It was build and operated by india, who knows what secret spying devices are installed.

Once its up in the Orbit it will what its intend to do. As far as your concerns are listed, you should have first read about what this satellite is all about and what services is it offering to SARCC member.

A satellite that offers you take educations to remote school via beaming educations tv shows, a satellite that helps you connect your hospitals in remote regions and the people from that region to get medical help from the finest doctors from your medical hub. A satellite that helps you improve your regional connectivity, ability for you postal and banking system to connect and improve the financial inclusion of remotest regions. All this and many more features totally free of cost.

As far as spying is concern there is something called data encryption, for which every country is free to implement its methods.

Why didn't India didnt include pakistan in the project, well its gift from India, its not a joint project development.
Pakistan could not accept this gift as this would hurt ego deep inside. For a country thats claiming so much about there technology advancement has to take free gift from India. They are very well aware that there space program is very nacesent at this point of time they would not be able to do much other than just showing face. India knew it very well and didnt want to humiliate there team, hence called it just a gift from India.


And Just for your information Pakistan paid $40M annually as lease charges for Paksat-1 form 2001, that to for a satellite that was launched for Indonesia in 1996 and which got rejected by Indonesia for technical faults. Its expected that Pakistan pays arround $80M annually for Paksat-1R. But what to do pride comes before logic and money....

 

[jetray]

Whether Pakistan is part of the project or not, if its a spy satellite, then once its up there it would be doing its job isnt it.



Green Color :p



Once its up in the Orbit it will what its intend to do. As far as your concerns are listed, you should have first read about what this satellite is all about and what services is it offering to SARCC member.

A satellite that offers you take educations to remote school via beaming educations tv shows, a satellite that helps you connect your hospitals in remote regions and the people from that region to get medical help from the finest doctors from your medical hub. A satellite that helps you improve your regional connectivity, ability for you postal and banking system to connect and improve the financial inclusion of remotest regions. All this and many more features totally free of cost.

As far as spying is concern there is something called data encryption, for which every country is free to implement its methods.

Why didn't India didnt include pakistan in the project, well its gift from India, its not a joint project development.
Pakistan could not accept this gift as this would hurt ego deep inside. For a country thats claiming so much about there technology advancement has to take free gift from India. They are very well aware that there space program is very nacesent at this point of time they would not be able to do much other than just showing face. India knew it very well and didnt want to humiliate there team, hence called it just a gift from India.


And Just for your information Pakistan paid $40M annually as lease charges for Paksat-1 form 2001, that to for a satellite that was launched for Indonesia in 1996 and which got rejected by Indonesia for technical faults. Its expected that Pakistan pays arround $80M annually for Paksat-1R. But what to do pride comes before logic and money....

pakistan wanted to sabotage the project and failed. Now it is a double whammy seeing not only the benefit other countries are getting but also the failure to sabotage it. Seems India learned its lesson when pakistan killed the saarc transportation agreement.
From now onward's we should let pakistan out of all saarc projects , anyway they have CPEC and dont need be in small regional association.

 

[Śakra]

pakistan wanted to sabotage the project and failed. Now it is a double whammy seeing not only the benefit other countries are getting but also the failure to sabotage it. Seems India learned its lesson when pakistan killed the saarc transportation agreement.
From now onward's we should let pakistan out of all saarc projects , anyway they have CPEC and dont need be in small regional association.

Is there a mechanism for kicking a country out of SAARC?

 

[Viny]

Is there a mechanism for kicking a country out of SAARC?

Why to kick them out of SAARC, when it gives you an opportunity to kick them every now and then publicly

 

[jetray]

Is there a mechanism for kicking a country out of SAARC?

revenge is best served cold !

 

[hussain0216]

pakistan wanted to sabotage the project and failed. Now it is a double whammy seeing not only the benefit other countries are getting but also the failure to sabotage it. Seems India learned its lesson when pakistan killed the saarc transportation agreement.
From now onward's we should let pakistan out of all saarc projects , anyway they have CPEC and dont need be in small regional association.

how would we sabotage it?????

it makes no sense


we simply dont like or trust hindus!

so working with them hand in hand on vital projects is intolerable for us

it us against our national interest to work with india in any way unless essential or unavoidable

this project was neither so our policy continued

 

[ashok321]

India’s South Asia Satellite is fine, but China is way ahead in wooing neighbours in space:

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[StraightShooter]

7 lakh indian occupier terrorists are committing genocide

Here comes the broken record propaganda.

 

[American Pakistani]

Here comes the broken record propaganda.

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Then don't repeat a thousand times that IOKis an indian state of J&K.

 

[StraightShooter]

Then don't repeat a thousand times that IOKis an indian state of J&K.

Entire state of J&K is considered part of India as per the constitution of India.

This is based on the instrument of accession that princely state of J&K signed with the republic of India.

 

[American Pakistani]

Entire state of J&K is considered part of India as per the constitution of India.

This is based on the instrument of accession that princely state of J&K signed with the republic of India.

If instrument of Accession is the case then why india occupied the states that signed instrument of Accession with Pakistan such as Junagadh Manvadar or Hyderabad Deccan?

Indian leaders promised Kashmiris that a refrendum will take place shortly but 70 years have passed without fulfilling that promise. Indians are occupiers whether you like it or not.

 

[StraightShooter]

If instrument of Accession is the case then why india occupied the states that signed instrument of Accession with Pakistan such as Junagadh Manvadar or Hyderabad Deccan?

Indian leaders promised Kashmiris that a refrendum will take place shortly but 70 years have passed without fulfilling that promise. Indians are occupiers whether you like it or not.

If you think you have a legal claim for the others that you mentioned then you should be fighting for them rather than on J&K. Pakistan has no legal claim in case of J&K.

I look forward to Pakistan to bring a legal claim for Junagarh or Hyderabad.