Pakistan blames India for exclusion from ‘SAARC Satellite’ project

[faithfulguy]

Look I know it is a sensitive subject and I'm only asking. If you are a regional power as you claim, why then have 7 out 8 players in the region not gone with you? Why do you own one set of reputations vs those tiny countries under the S Asia banner? What area of influence does your power project in terms of economic, diplomatic or military influence in the region?

BTW since you insist on bringing Kashmir into every argument even when it has no bearing on the discussion. What do you think of this article and position from your ally? https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/never-considered-pakistan-claim-on-kashmir-final-china.494190/

Why are you so ashamed of your Indian heritage? You talk just like any bragging Indian here. I can smell it here. Don't be a false flaggers.

 

[American Pakistani]

Look I know it is a sensitive subject and I'm only asking. If you are a regional power as you claim, why then have 7 out 8 players in the region not gone with you? Why do you own one set of reputations vs those tiny countries under the S Asia banner? What area of influence does your power project in terms of economic, diplomatic or military influence in the region?

BTW since you insist on bringing Kashmir into every argument even when it has no bearing on the discussion. What do you think of this article and position from your ally? https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/never-considered-pakistan-claim-on-kashmir-final-china.494190/

Wherever money takes them. That's what it is in today's world. If your friend owns a company and give you 50K salary job whereas in another company you are getting 250K salary job, where are you going to go?

For second part of your post, I don't read or believe nonsense news from your indian sites.

Uplink and downlink is managed by the ground stations of the respective countries how can we spy with that?What other spying system are you talking about.
Why do we need this sattelite to spy when
We have many dedicated satellites now in orbit,doing that purpose alone which have the capability to provide live feed on troop movements. all thanks to isro.

Please go and learn about what I'm talking then post. I don't have time for spoonfeeding.

 

[WarFariX]

we will keep fighting forever.india is way ahead in space engineering.we should accept good things of our enemy.they already made ICBM and it was easy for them to develop satellites.pakistan must follow the foot steps of india.despite hostilities,we must encourage our enemy to do positive things.similarly they can encourage us.

Another "Happy happy" kid here .

 

[hussain0216]

How can we be excluded from something we refused to be part of?

 

[T-72M1]

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.

There's enough military sats already doing that

Pak could have come aboard this one and used the functionality/redundancy of another comm system for civvie use such as disaster relief and enhanced connectivity for remote regions and mountainous terrain etc

 

[hussain0216]

There's enough military sats already doing that

Pak could have come aboard this one and used the functionality/redundancy of another comm system for civvie use such as disaster relief and enhanced connectivity for remote regions and mountainous terrain etc

Yes but we hate you and dont wish to work with you

 

[My-Analogous]

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/

Will India join if Pakistan do the same thing?. Stop fooling peoples and we all know that in this world of IT age how important Telecommunication is and how your enemy can use this against you. I am IT pro and i know how things work.

 

[Nilgiri]

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

I am saying Pakistan would not be sending any sensitive information or data on an international satellite to begin with.

It gets to discriminate on its end what it is used for. It is simply a certain free assured capacity to broadcast/receive to the rest of south asia (mostly development related information etc).

Yet here you are still blabbering about "spying"....when one simply would not send anything worth spying on for such a project in the first place.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

I am saying Pakistan would not be sending any sensitive information or data on an international satellite to begin with.

It gets to discriminate on its end what it is used for. It is simply a certain free assured capacity to broadcast/receive to the rest of south asia (mostly development related information etc).

Yet here you are still blabbering about "spying"....when one simply would not send anything worth spying on for such a project in the first place.

Perhaps they just did not manage the budget? Or a genuine lack of interest to align with a South Asian block anyway? Both should be considered and respected.

 

[Nilgiri]

Will India join if Pakistan do the same thing?.

Sure why not. Put the capacity up there and offer it.

Yes but we hate you and dont wish to work with you

Good at least you are upfront about the real reason here. Instead of bringing up "but but spying!" nonsense on pure civilian transponder capacity.

 

[My-Analogous]

Sure why not. Put the capacity up there and offer it.



Good at least you are upfront about the real reason here. Instead of bringing up "but but spying!" nonsense on pure civilian transponder capacity.

You Indian. Post my whole comments and We offer Indians to join our Paksat-1R. Still interested?

 

[American Pakistani]

I am saying Pakistan would not be sending any sensitive information or data on an international satellite to begin with.

It gets to discriminate on its end what it is used for. It is simply a certain free assured capacity to broadcast/receive to the rest of south asia (mostly development related information etc).

Yet here you are still blabbering about "spying"....when one simply would not send anything worth spying on for such a project in the first place.

It maybe a very clean project but until there is trust deficit and mammoth issues like Kashmir, forget about satellite, even a pigeon will look like spy.

 

[assassin123]

Please go and learn about what I'm talking then post. I don't have time for spoonfeeding.

lol
You still did not get it
Why would India with many operational military spy satellite invite Pakistan to join a satellite mission and use the same satellite to spy on them.

 

[Śakra]

What is there to spy on anyways, what shows pakistanis watch? What their favourite movie is? It's quite a lame excuse. We now know why pakistan backed out after Zakaria's revealing statement. They wanted Indian tech and tried to get it by refusing to participate unless India allowed them to "help" manufacture the satellite. India saw right through that charade and here we are.

 

[Hulk]

Pakistan is a nusense in SAARC. It will be better if we have something without Paksitan.