Pakdef E-Reporter Vol I No. 1 October-November 2006 Editorial: Syed Ahmed [email protected] Submit Contributions: [email protected] Usman Shabbir [email protected] H Khan [email protected] Feedback: [email protected] Copyright ©1998-2006, PakDef.info. All rights reserved. The reproduction of the contents of this website & its newsletter (Pakdef E- Reporter) in whole or in part, in any form or medium without the express written permission of PakDef is prohibited. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ____________________________________________________________ 3 Bunker News ________________________________________________________________ 6 The First Cyber War – Part 1 __________________________________________________ 10 Gwadar: Competition From All Sides____________________________________________ 12 Multan Conference Jan. 1972__________________________________________________ 14 The Birth of Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program.________________________________ 14 End of the line for the once proud Hangor class ___________________________________ 19 India’s Claim on Kashmir Has No Justification ___________________________________ 25 Rise of the Falcon: Future of PAF ______________________________________________ 35 INTRODUCTION elcome to PakDef E-Reporter, an illuminating new publication put out by Pakistan Military Consortium (PMC) and www.pakdef.info. PMC is devoted towards W disseminating accurate information on Pakistan’s army, air force, navy and strategic command. We hope you will find here facts concerning Pakistan not commonly available elsewhere. However, first a disclaimer: despite the focus on Pakistani military and geo-strategic issues, neither this publication, nor PMC, nor www.pakdef.info have anything to do with The Government of Pakistan, its military establishment or any civil agency. PakDef E-Reporter is purely a private initiative by individuals from diverse backgrounds, who have an interest in military and geo-strategic issues relating to Pakistan. Our contributors hail from various disciplines, such as engineering, medicine, information technology, accountancy, jurisprudence and economics, to name a few. Thus readers of PakDef E-Reporter will be exposed to the perspective of private Pakistani citizens and expatriates, without any governmental spin. Contributors to PakDef E-Reporter have been discussing issues of interest at the www.pakdef.info forum since 1998, and have developed a wealth of information that we would like to share. Although all of this information is available at www.pakdef.info, which carries perhaps the most detailed information about Pakistan’s military available at any public website, we felt that publishing PakDef E-Reporter was necessary in order to facilitate a more informed debate about strategic issues relating to Pakistan. Disseminating precise information on Pakistan became a natural outgrowth of forum discussions as forum members discovered that there was little information available on Pakistan, and what little was available was generally inaccurate and without context. Our contributors realized that the mainstream American media, as well as publications from respected policy analysts tended to mischaracterize Pakistan by exaggerating its deficiencies, while downplaying its endeavors and achievements in pursuit of a peaceful world. For example, concerning nuclear proliferation, everyone knows and is reminded ad nauseam by the media, about Dr. A. Q. Khan’s nuclear sales network, however very few ever hear about Pakistan’s efforts to prevent nuclearization of South Asia and what exact role Dr. A. Q. Khan played in Pakistan’s nuclear program. These efforts have unambiguously sought to prevent nuclear proliferation, and have included the following proposals: • In 1974 Pakistan offered to India proposals for declaring South Asia a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone. • In 1978 Pakistan proposed a joint India-Pakistan declaration renouncing the acquisition and manufacture of nuclear weapons. • In 1979 Pakistan proposed mutual inspection of each other’s nuclear facilities to India. Pakistan also offered simultaneous adherence with India to the NPT, as well as - 3 - simultaneous acceptance of full-scope IAEA safeguards on both countries’ nuclear facilities. • In 1987 Pakistan offered to sign a bilateral or regional nuclear test ban treaty with India. • In 1991 Pakistan proposed the commencement of multilateral conference on nuclear proliferation in South Asia. • In 1993 Pakistan proposed creating a missile free zone in South Asia • In 1998 after India provoked Pakistan by conducting five additional nuclear tests close to its borders, Pakistan offered to refrain from conducting retaliatory tests if the United States would guarantee Pakistan’s security vis-à-vis India, but the U.S. declined. • Pakistan is prepared to give up its nuclear weapons capability anytime India is prepared to do the same. India of course did not respond to these non-proliferation initiatives, as it had no intention of contributing towards nuclear non-proliferation in South Asia. However the international community that was supposedly against nuclear proliferation also did nothing to support these overtures. Instead Pakistan, which had authored these initiatives, was sanctioned over and over for developing a defensive capability, without a care for its predicament. Nothing demonstrates better than these proposals Pakistan’s reluctance to assume the role of a nuclear state, yet these facts and context are never revealed in any media report, research papers or policy analyses. Therefore, PakDef E-Reporter hopes to fill the gaps necessary for an honest evaluation of Pakistan, by bringing you factually and contextually accurate material focused on Pakistan’s military and military history, as well as our perspective on current geo-strategic issues and an assessment of future developments. For example, let’s briefly consider Pakistan’s geo-strategic situation. The reality of Pakistan’s geo-strategic environment is that Pakistan is snared in an existential struggle. Pakistan’s two immediate neighbors, Afghanistan and India, have never really accepted the emergence of a sovereign Pakistan. For Afghanistan the formalization of the Durand Line as the border between itself and Pakistan was unacceptable, and up until the Soviet invasion Afghanistan provided sanctuary to anyone who displayed a willingness to destabilize or attack Pakistan – a role it appears to be reverting to since the U.S. invasion. Pakistan’s critical assistance to the Afghans in liberating themselves from Soviet occupation, and paying a back-breaking price for it in terms of hosting millions of Afghan refugees for quarter of a century has done nothing to pacify unwarranted Afghan hostility towards Pakistan. Even today Pakistan has to endure attacks from Baluchi tribesmen, armed and trained by India in sanctuaries provided by Afghanistan. - 4 - As far as India is concerned, the very idea of Pakistan was unacceptable to them. The Indians fought tooth and nail to prevent the independence of Pakistan, and having failed in that endeavor they have nibbled away at Pakistan at every opportunity. For example, immediately after independence from Britain, India annexed Kashmir on the basis of a fraudulently engineered accession. Since then India has continued to defy United Nations Security Council resolutions requiring the exercise of self-determination by the people of Kashmir. India also fueled a civil war in Pakistan, while arming and training a group called Mukti Bahni who by today’s definition can be called a terrorist group, and attacked East Pakistan to break the country apart. Furthermore, while Pakistan was struggling with the rest of the free world to reverse the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, India - a Soviet client state, occupied Siachin Glacier and parts of Neelum Valley in Kashmir. At present India is training and arming rebellious Baluchi tribesmen in Afghanistan in the hope of tearing Baluchistan from Pakistan. Even now, after almost 60 years of Pakistan’s existence, senior Indian leadership talks of a confederation between India and Pakistan, which effectively means the end of Pakistani sovereignty, meanwhile the Indian military develops doctrines and holds regular exercises to practice cutting the remainder of Pakistan in two. Thus Pakistan’s geo-strategic environment is one of constant and fatal threats from neighbors who have demonstrated the desire, acquired the capability and taken affirmative action towards the destruction of the Pakistani state. The above environment is routinely left out of any examination of Pakistani conduct or policies, with the result that there is a bank of erroneous analyses with inaccurate conclusions relating to Pakistan out there, ready to misguide anyone who happens to access such disinformation. PakDef E-Reporter’s mission is to counter disinformation about Pakistan by providing unadulterated truth. We invite you to sample what you can expect in PakDef E-Reporter by visiting www.pakdef.info, where you will find detailed articles, thought provoking reports and pictorial libraries relating to Pakistan’s military and geo-strategic issues. We hope to be your library of facts, in an ocean of rumor mills. - 5 - Bunker News Corps Commander witnesses Pak-Turkey joint exercises ESHAWAR (September 14 2006): exercise. Special Forces of both the armies Corps Commander, Lieutenant demonstrated a raid on terrorists' camp by P General Mohammed Hamid Khan using special service techniques and witnessed ongoing Pak-Turkey