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  • India’s former envoy to China appointed Deputy NSA

    India’s former envoy to China appointed Deputy NSA

    The last Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) meeting took place in November this year…reports Asian Lite News.

    Vikram Misri, a 1989 batch Indian Foreign Service officer, who served as envoy in China amid the border dispute, has been appointed as Deputy National Security Advisor in the National Security Council secretariat.

    Misri was succeeded as Ambassador to China by Pradeep Kumar Rawat, a 1990 batch IFS officer, earlier this month.

    The appointment of Rawat, who was serving as the Indian envoy to the Netherlands before being given this sensitive post, comes in the midst of the lingering eastern Ladakh border standoff.

    For Rawat, who speaks fluent Mandarin and had earlier served in Hong Kong and Beijing, resolving the dispute that India and China have been engaged in for the last 20 months, will be the top priority.

    The last Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) meeting took place in November this year.

    After the meeting, both the countries agreed on the need to find an early resolution to the remaining disputes along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, while fully abiding by bilateral agreements and protocols so as to restore peace and tranquility.

    “The two sides also agreed that both sides should, in the interim, also continue to ensure a stable ground situation and avoid any untoward incident,” the External Affairs Ministry had said.

    In the meantime, both the countries have made enhanced deployment even during winters to thwart any threat.

    Indian troops are deployed at a height of around 17,000 feet along the borders and all logistics are in place. The force is ready to sustain the enhanced troop deployment in the harsh winter at friction points where temperatures will soon start dipping beyond minus 20 degrees.

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  • Doval highlights the relevance of rule of law

    Doval highlights the relevance of rule of law

    He said they were sources of inspiration as they led central and state forces and played a vital role in national building in the post-Independence period…reports Asian Lite News.

    National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Friday said that no nation can be built where rule of law has failed, where people cannot feel safe and secure and where law enforcers are weak, corrupt and partisan.

    Addressing the trainee officers of Indian Police Service (IPS) at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA) here, he said they have a vital role to play in nation building through enforcement of laws.

    “Quintessence of democracy does not lie in the ballot box. It lies in the laws made by people who are elected through those ballot boxes. You are the enforcers of laws. Laws are not as good as they are made. Laws are as good as they are executed and implemented and the service that people are able to get out of it,” he said after reviewing the colourful Dikshant Parade.


    He told the IPS probationers that if they fail to enforce laws in letter and spirit in which they were made they are as good or as bad as they were made.

    A total of 132 officer trainees of 73rd batch of IPS and 17 officers of Bhutan, Maldives and Nepal passed out of the academy after 46 weeks of phase-1 training.

    Darpan Ahluwalia, a Punjab cadre woman IPS probationer led the passing out parade. Hailing from Mohali and an MBBS degree holder from the Government Medical College, Patiala, she is the sixth woman to lead the parade at the academy in more than seven decades.

    Academy Director Atul Karwal said Darpan Ahluwalia is also the overall topper of the basic course phase-1 training that include indoor and outdoor courses.

    Doval advised the trainee officers to develop a national perspective to really contribute their mite. “Do not forget that you are for India and India is for you. Interest of India should be supreme,” he said.

    The NSA said that service of people was the greatest service not only from the point of view of nation building but also from the point of view of national security. “Wars ceased to have become effective instruments for achieving their political and military objectives.

    They are too expensive and unaffordable and at the same time there is uncertainty about their outcome. It is civil society that can be subverted, can be divided and manipulated to hurt the interests of a nation.”

    He also emphasised the need to maintain internal security. “If internal security fails, no country can be great and if people are not safe and secure and can’t rise to their potential, no country can grow,” he said.

    The NSA told the police officers that they not only have to enforce the laws but they are also supposed to protect and maintain peace and order in 32 lakh square km. He said the policing also extends to border management in 15,000 km border areas with Pakistan, China and other neighbouring countries and with different types of security related issues.

    Doval pointed out that SVPNPA has trained 5,700 officers since 1948 and many among them excelled and brought honours and laurels. He said they were sources of inspiration as they led central and state forces and played a vital role in national building in the post-Independence period.

    “They led brave men and women of about 21 lakh persons in states and at Centre. 35,480 of the bravehearts sacrificed their lives. They were the great leaders who were able to inspire and make people give the highest sacrifice. These are the qualities of leadership that we expect from each one of you,” said Doval, who also passed out from the same academy.

    Mentioning that 40 of the IPS officers who passed out from the Academy were martyred, he said they all played a similar role in nation building. “You too have a great role ahead. You will all see the 100th year of India’s independence and beyond. It will be a different India at that time. India is on the march and you will be leading these police forces at a time when India will have a new place in the international arena,” he added.

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  • Afghanistan on table: Russian NSA in Delhi for high-level talks

    Afghanistan on table: Russian NSA in Delhi for high-level talks

    General Nikolay Patrushev is also expected to call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, reports Asian Lite News

    India and Russia are set to discuss the Afghan crisis following the takeover of the war-torn nation by Taliban forces.

    India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, General Nikolay Patrushev, has arrived here on Tuesday on a two-day visit for a high-level India-Russia inter-governmental consultation on the invitation of India’s National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval.

    The two top security officials are likely to discuss the Afghan situation.

    This consultation is a follow-up to the telephonic conversation between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 24, when the two leaders said the two strategic partners will work together and directed the senior officials of their respective countries to remain in touch on the developments in Afghanistan.

    Patrushev is also expected to call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, the MEA further said.

    After the Modi-Putin conversation, Russia had said that the two leaders expressed the intention to enhance cooperation to counter the spread of terrorist ideology and drug threat emerging from Afghanistan.

    Both leaders also agreed to set up a permanent bilateral channel for consultations on the issue.

    On Monday, Russian envoy Nikolay Kudashev also reiterated that there is ample scope for cooperation between India and Russia on Afghanistan and both sides have been in regular touch with each other on the latest developments in the war-torn country.

    He also said that Russia is equally concerned like India that the Afghan soil should not be a source of spreading terrorism to other countries and there is an apprehension that the terror threat may reach the Russian territory as well as Kashmir.

    Earlier on August 26, the Afghan situation was discussed in detail when Deputy NSA Pankaj Saran visited Moscow to meet Russian NSA Nikolay Patrushev and Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov.

    Following this, the two countries had agreed to step up coordination amid the unfolding situation in Afghanistan following troops pullout by the US and NATO.

    Russia was a key player in pushing for the Afghan peace process before the Taliban captured power in Kabul on Augusta 15 this year.

    On Friday, Putin had expressed hope that the Taliban will behave in a “civilised” manner in Afghanistan so that the global community can maintain diplomatic ties with Kabul. “Russia is not interested in the disintegration of Afghanistan. If this happens, then there will be no one to talk to,” Putin said.

    In Kabul, the Russian Ambassador had met with the Taliban several days after the takeover and said Moscow would maintain its embassy in the country.

    In the fast-changing geo-politics of the region, Russia has emerged as a key player on Afghanistan largely due to its engagements with the Taliban over the past few years. New Delhi’s engagement with Moscow is aimed at advancing its national interest since both sides share concerns on terrorism emanating from Afghan soil.

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    Meanwhile, Doval met with US spymaster William Burns in Delhi on Tuesday. The meeting took place on a day when the Taliban announced the names of people who would run Afghanistan, including the leader of a US-designated terror group being named as Prime Minister.

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