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| India expedites border fencing |
| 2007-02-06 |
| NEW DELHI: India is fencing and installing floodlights on the Indo-Pak border at a fast pace, and Home Minister Shivraj Patil is leaving for a two-day visit to Gujarat and Rajasthan to inspect the pace of work, according to a Home Ministry spokesman. The spokesman said here on Friday that of the 310 kilometres of the international border in Gujarat to be fenced and floodlit, 207 kilometres had been fenced and flood lights had been set up along 178 kilometres. He said the union home minister was inspecting border outposts in the two states, and Patil would also inspect work on border fencing in the Bhuj district of Gujarat. The fencing is part of IndiaÂ’s ambitious project to seal its entire 1,800-mile border with Pakistan. Even as India embarks on a peace process with Pakistan, expedited work on fencing the border with Pakistan is in progress. The spokesman said that at most places, fencing along the Line of Control had been repaired. The construction of fences began in the late 1980s in the state of Punjab. |
| Posted by:john |
| #6 Actually, there is a third option, OP : going Roman on your neighbors. A few example villages and things might just settle down along the borders. And since the Indians are dark-skinned Third Worlders, they won't get the bad press that any Western state would. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2007-02-06 15:00 |
| #5 India has two choices - be constantly vigilent, fence its borders, and control the flow of militants; or conquer their surrounding neighbors and put a stop to the threat permanently. They will attempt the first alternative until that collapses, then will reluctantly go with the second. This will require they keep their foot on the necks of all muslims and communists, which will be tiring but will work. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-02-06 13:50 |
| #4 A Hindu ex-pat MD once explained to me that India in ancient times was like the "United States" of the world, unified, politically stable and wealthy. All those unsavory neighbors brought it down over the centuries. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-06 11:20 |
| #3 Walls and fences... it's a Chinese thing that goes back several years. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-02-06 07:46 |
| #2 It seems that security fences are all the rage nowadays. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-02-06 06:43 |
| #1 And it is fencing the Indo-Bangla border as well. With the Maoists taking over in Nepal, that border will also need fencing. India really got the pick of the litter when it came to neighbors.. Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka. I'm betting they get so fed up that they'll mine their borders |
| Posted by: john 2007-02-06 06:29 |