Air Force Base of India in Tajikistan. Pakistan is interested: why? ..

Indian Foreign Minister M.J. Akbar met with his counterpart from the Republic of Tajikistan, and both foreign ministers discussed bilateral cooperation, including cooperation in the military sphere. One of the issues is the deepening of cooperation related to the operation of the Indian Air Force of the Parhar airbase (Farkhor) in Tajikistan. This is a military object, which since 2005 has been used by the Indian Air Force as a base in Central Asia.

Farkhor is the only full-fledged air base of India beyond its borders. At the same time, it was initially used as an object of support for the antiterrorist operation in Afghanistan. In particular, it was about the exploitation of military Indian air force transport workers. Also on the base were placed 12 MiG-29. What is happening on Farkhor now? - The press service of the Indian Air Force does not provide any information about this.

The silence of the Indian authorities regarding the activities on Farkhor causes, to put it mildly, nervousness in one of India’s main geopolitical rivals - Pakistan. The Pakistani military command believes that the Indian airbase in Tajikistan has long ceased to be relevant to the antiterrorist operation in Afghanistan and should be closed. Islamabad is convinced that India is creating an additional “bridgehead”, which at some point could be used for “anti-Pakistani aggression”. Also in Pakistan they claim that they are ready for "retaliatory measures" if the base is not disbanded.

What else is known about the talks between the foreign ministers of Tajikistan and India? It is known that we were talking about a previously closed hospital, in which soldiers and policemen of the government forces of Afghanistan who were wounded in the battles with terrorists were treated in Tajik territory. Some time ago, the official Dushanbe announced that it was ceasing to provide services to Kabul for the treatment of military personnel on its territory "due to lack of funding." It should also be noted that earlier in Tajikistan there were concerns about the possible penetration of militants from Afghanistan under the guise of wounded Afghan soldiers. It can be assumed that India is preparing to finance the restoration of the hospital to extend the program of rendering medical aid to the Afghan security officials.

India also intends to continue to provide support to Dushanbe by providing training for pilots of the republic’s air force.

Comments

[Andrey K]

... Indian Air Force Base in Tajikistan ...

Probably for the democratic projection of power.
Hindus learn from partners in international affairs - democracy must be with wings and bombs suspended under them.
And without aviation, this is not democracy - so, a whistle in the desert.

[210ox]

India and Pakistan should be demonstrating leg raises when changing guards at the border ... This is the most worthwhile thing that they get exclusively ..

Quote: Andrey K

... Indian Air Force Base in Tajikistan ...

Probably for the democratic projection of power.
Hindus learn from partners in international affairs - democracy must be with wings and bombs suspended under them.
And without aviation, this is not democracy - so, a whistle in the desert.

[Andrey K]

Quote: 210ox

... India and Pakistan should engage in a demonstration of raising their legs when changing guards at the border ... This is the most worthwhile thing that they get exclusively ...

Greetings Dmitry
I'm about the same, pure neighing
As we say - with a bare backside, but with exorbitant show-offs

[hrych]

Quote: Andrey K

pure neighing

If you see the root (look at the map). It can be seen that although there is no direct border between Tajiks and Indians, everything is on the heap there, the borders on the mountains are arbitrary, there are constant graters between India, Pakistan and China. Also, the Afghan band may like the Indians. Like the land corridor from China to Pakistan. It is also convenient to strike the enemy from the rear (both Pakistanis and Chinese).

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: hrych

Quote: Andrey K

pure neighing

If you see the root (look at the map). It can be seen that although there is no direct border between Tajiks and Indians, everything is on the heap there, the borders on the mountains are arbitrary, there are constant graters between India, Pakistan and China. Also, the Afghan band may like the Indians. Like the land corridor from China to Pakistan. It is also convenient to strike the enemy from the rear (both Pakistanis and Chinese).

From the border of Tajikistan to India, 70 kilometers. On the pass Shar-Shar stands
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2000 km to 40000 km, including geostationary orbits. Distinguishes meter objects.

The complex is located (38.280923, 69.225309) at an altitude of 2216 m above sea level in the Sangloh Mountains (Pamir), near the city of Nurek (Tajikistan) in the Khodzharki village. It is the property of Russia and is part of the space forces.

[Humpty]

Quote: Vkd dvk

From the border of Tajikistan to India, 70 kilometers.

The map is not relevant. Although between the nearest points of Tajikistan and the demarcation line in Kashmir is not 70, but 50 km.

[Vkd dvk]

Quote: Humpty

Quote: Vkd dvk

From the border of Tajikistan to India, 70 kilometers.

The map is not relevant. Although between the nearest points of Tajikistan and the demarcation line in Kashmir is not 70, but 50 km.

Especially.

[Humpty]

Quote: hrych

mountain borders are arbitrary,

Erroneous representation.

Quote: hrych

Also, the Afghan band may like the Indians. Like the land corridor from China to Pakistan.

Map is not relevant! You may not be aware, but from China to Pakistan there has long been a good highway, one of the most famous roads in the world. Through the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir. Amazing place . Near the sides of the glaciers are apricot orchards and rice checks.

[hrych]

Quote: Humpty

Pakistan has long had a good highway

So you answered the question The highway is required in case of war to be cut unambiguously. Then this map is more relevant, where Indo-Pakistan-Chinese contradictions will certainly lead to war.

[Humpty]

Quote: hrych

Then this card is more relevant

This one, yes.

Quote: hrych

The highway is required in case of war to be cut unambiguously.

The Chinese are constantly improving it. If before 10-15 years ago, it happened because of erosion and collapses, the traffic was blocked for several days, but now I have not heard that it was blocked for more than 6 hours.

[NordOst16]

Naked ass and exorbitant ambitions - something reminds me of something

[URAL72]

MIG-29, this is a fighter of pure water. Even modernized, for work on the land by the Indians is not considered. The radius is not enough to threaten Pakistan. On land, they used a jaguar and a mirage-2000. MiG-21 is enough for Afghan and drug trafficking. Only China remains. Great India surrounds a small and defenseless China!

[NordOst16]

While defenseless only our Far East and just that - China will certainly pull their hands to it

[Hire]

Quote: Andrey K

Probably also for the democratic projection of force

India, after all, is our BRICS partner. So this is unlikely to threaten us. And why Pakistan is so excited is also not clear. In general, everything is not clear. For example, what did India forget in Afghanistan?

[Andrey K]

Quote: Hire

... India, after all, is our BRICS partner. So this is unlikely to threaten us. And why Pakistan is so excited is also not clear. In general, everything is not clear. For example, what did India forget in Afghanistan? ...

I’ll tell you more - since June last year, these two of the casket are the same in person, our SCO partners

[Phil77]

Well, it’s clear with the Tajiks, they decided to cut the dough.

[Anatole Klim]

Quote: Hire

And why Pakistan is so excited is also not clear. In general, everything is not clear.

Yes, everything is clear, China and Pakistan are the closest allies that have territorial claims to India and have repeatedly had military conflicts with India. If India consolidates its position in Tajikistan, it could well threaten, for example, the strategic highway from China to Pakistan to the port of Gwadar, which the Chinese began to build back in the 60s (oh, how far the Chinese looked), and the highway is wonderful, destroy it and break the link China- Pakistan in case of conflict an important task of the Indian Air Force

[Hire]

Quote: Anatol Klim

destroy it and break the ligament China-Pakistan in case of conflict an important task of the Indian Air Force

For this, an airfield in Tajikistan is not needed.

[Anatole Klim]

Quote: Hire

For this, an airfield in Tajikistan is not needed.

Are you an analyst at the General Staff? Are you considering all sorts of scenarios for the development of the conflict? Well, of course, some Pakistanis and Indians are no match for the sofa expert, the main thing is to categorically give a comment

[Hire]

Quote: Anatol Klim

Yes, everything is clear, China and Pakistan ...

And this man tells me about peremptory ... Scream!

[voyaka uh]

The highway is fantastic! No one but China is able to carry out such grandiose projects.

[Humpty]

Quote: Anatol Klim

which the Chinese began to build back in the 60s (oh how far the Chinese looked), and the highway is wonderful,

Did you drive along this highway? How many times ? Vidio class! Only this is some other road.

[Anatole Klim]

Quote: Humpty

Did you drive along this highway? How many times ?

No, I have never traveled!

Vidio class!

I was also impressed!

Only this is some other road.

I will gladly raise my legs up if you prove that this road is not China-Pakistan.

[Retired2012]

There is something to say, but everything is obscene ....... But beautiful, after all .....

[hrych]

Here, even a nuclear charge is not required; a good bombing raid and the highway will be cut. Moreover, it is seasonal, it closes for the winter. And yes, of course, it is very preferable to fly from Tajikistan, flight time is minimal through Afghanistan (a base on the border), although you can almost fly all the way in the Tajik sky and strike from the rear of the Kashmir group.

[himRa]

Quote: Hire

For example, what did India forget in Afghanistan?

In short, Britain has united them, and there are so many Afghans living in India! And long-standing and strong ties — drugs and arms trafficking as an example ...

[Thunderbolt]

Quote: Andrey K

Probably for the democratic projection of power.

Probably, for the sake of pluses, it may not go into the topic at all, but ... ah ... ah ...?) ... commander of shooters and tankers))) what do you know more importantly than my brother breathed in these years, Internet seed, where is your sprinkler, he plus you, but I don’t .. because you suck and everything

[Thunderbolt]

Why are you even fooling around here, that you put yourself higher. What kind of army did you finish that you order me ...

[Thunderbolt]

There is no such army, and only a brigade commander can order me and he flint, hammer such as (la-la). 41 teeth were beaten before us such objects as you, generals did not give up, they didn’t give a damn about your Stalin, duties and defenses against the plague

[vorobey]

The East is a delicate matter ... I am interested in how the Indian Air Force and ours interact with 201. I .. if there are common goals and objectives .. then let Pakistan go .. well, you are in the know.

[stalkerwalker]

How how.....
According to Baghdasarov, the Tajiks were offensive in the attack and limited the independent movement of the 201, the current with the permission of local buys, i.e. authorities.
This is how Tajiks fight drug trafficking.
It is high time in Kyrgyzstan to open its full-fledged base.

[taiga2018]

Russia would also do well to ask ...

[impostor]

Valley, wonderful valley
Valley of Eternal Dreams, Plants and Flowers

[nikoliski]

When China goes to take away Central Asian countries one by one, crushing them under its new yellow mega empire, the base of the Indians will probably save the Tajiks from invasion (the Chinese are unlikely to want to get India into the enemy’s enemies) In general, if it weren’t for Russia, China would have long joined Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, these countries with armies of several tens of thousands of people are simply unable to stop the Chinese. Despite the fact that Kazakhs are superior to China in oil and uranium reserves, and Turkmenistan (after Russia and Iran) ranks third in the world in gas reserves

[Igor V]

China in the Eastern Pamirs has long cut its territory. And about Mongolia, I strongly doubt it. The gut is thin in the Chinese. By the way, after the Vietnam War, they no longer go.

[Phil77]

Since the days of Vietnam, the Chinese Armed Forces have changed very much, and for the better. They will crush Mongolia at a time.

[nikoliski]

Mongolia is a huge country (like 2 of France) with a population of only 3 million (with half living in the capital), the army numbers 10 people and old Soviet tanks that are not even equipped with modern dynamic protection - China will sell Mongolia as the Germans at one time Denmark for just one day (one nuclear strike and there is no Ulaanbaatar and voila-la) a territory of one and a half million square kilometers is “fastened” to China (do you seriously believe that the shepherds grazing in the steppes of their sheep will be able to oppose the Chinese? They don’t even find out that they now live in another country.)

[Igor V]

This is not arithmetic. The Germans also thought ... The Mongols are psychologically superior to the Chinese. Yes, and we will not stand aside because of the danger of the capture of Transbaikalia. BAM, of course, was built, but this does not mean that we do not need the Trans-Siberian Railway. And I repeat that China is not going to go the military route until there is no military experience and while peaceful means of expansion are working.

[nikoliski]

That's right - when they become more than Russians in the Primorye, they will separate it according to the Kosovo scenario (our authorities do everything they can to do this, considering China a friend and allowing millions of Chinese illegal immigrants to work in the Far East)

[CYM]

It is strange that another Indian "friend" China does not ask such a question.

[Paranoid50]

Quote: CYM

It is strange that another Indian "friend" China does not ask such a question.

Apparently, while thinking about the wording.

[Simon]

Quote: taiga2018

Russia would also do well to ask ...

And that Russia is interested in, our people probably know about it. At the moment, we have good relations with India, so that there is no reason to be afraid.

[faterdom]

Here it is! In '93 we caught silver carp and carp in ponds in Ponds, and local residents tried not to let cars with the damper of the Kulyab regiment pass, fearing that Russian troops would leave Afghanistan like 4 years ago, leaving them to be torn apart by Wahhabis. And now, units of the 201st base are withdrawn from Kulyab, their border guards, it is not known what and from whom they are guarding, parts of the 201st base are also withdrawn from Dushanbe (sort of in Liur). But here someone else's someone’s base there as mushrooms.
But if ISIS or al-Qaeda strikes (the Taliban does not need this in principle), then how the CSTO rulers of Tajikistan expect military assistance from Russia, from whom else.
I understand more and more the Americans, who from time to time change the rulers and the elite in their "union" republics. In order not to greet and forget.

[alexmach]

As far as I remember there, the stumbling block was also the possibility of forming an air force base to support the group.

[Scipio African]

Tajik all on his scum ass, vigorous adventure seeks

[Thunderbolt]

Dangerous triangles and mysterious in every sense rhombuses loom in our former Central Asian SSR.
You see for yourself: China subjugates their markets and finds the way to their resources, and seeks the path to Europe with a strategic goal. As their allies, with their help, the Chinese are tying America to Afghanistan and quietly expanding our former republics in this spectrum. profitable as a counterbalance to the hegemonic policy of China. But ... India is rapidly drifting towards the so-called The "Western bloc" led by America. Therefore, its presence there in an alliance with America is not entirely desirable for us in the long term. Unfortunately, the authoritarianism of local regimes and unprincipled love of money does not allow us to build a long-term plan for projecting our military strength and economic power ( if you will allow ...) to this region. It is difficult to make clear forecasts even for a year or two (despite the apparent stability and general "grandeur" of indestructible agreements).
In this light, the only reliable tool that will never fail is to strengthen our garrisons in Turkestan, to strengthen the districts' ability to deploy large-scale deployments, to develop non-strategic aviation and missile strike components in this direction. All other issues urgently require that they be addressed, but On the defense, there is at least some certainty, all other issues are extremely blurred, and success can turn out to be a mirage in the desert. East, the thing is.

[Igor V]

"Strengthening our garrisons in Turkestan"
Where is it?

[Thunderbolt]

The Kyrgyz air base, as a means of supporting the 2O1st. But in connection with the allied status of these powers, there is also a very secret plan to strengthen our group and disperse the Oysk into districts .... yes .... they’ll fly to Dushanbe Pskov, and after them all the rest, this is our garrison garrison in Turkestan

[Thunderbolt]

Quote: Igor V

Where is it?

And if it’s not clear already, judging by the slow reaction, EVERYWHERE, where only air is possible and everything is divided into two halves, uchkuduk, Russians and bayonets, ... they waited for this and were afraid Yes, this is Central Asia, the silence of the mountains and echo passes? Horseradish vm. we will punish, meaningless rue

[Igor V]

So you used Turkestan in the old meaning.

[APASUS]

I would never have thought that India has an air force military base abroad, and even in Tajikistan.

[Kasym]

The conversation went back to ... 2002. behind the Aini airfield near Dushanbe.

[Berkut24]

Islamabad is confident that India is creating an additional "bridgehead", which at some point could be used for "anti-Pakistan aggression"

But nothing that:
On January 1, 2018, The Daily Caller published information on a plan to establish a Chinese military base on the Jivani Peninsula in Pakistan.