Posted on 07/19/2018 6:58:04 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Militaries of India and Pakistan will be part of a mega anti-terror drill in Russia next month which is being organised by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) with an aim to expand cooperation among the member countries to deal with terrorism and extremism.
It will be for the first time since Independence that India and Pakistan will both be part of a military exercise, though the armies of the two nations have worked together in UN peacekeeping missions.
Around 200 Army and Air Force personnel from India will be participating in the exercise scheduled from August 20-29 at Chelyabinsk city in west-central Russia.
The exercise will be joined by all SCO member countries including Russia, China, Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The drill, “Peace Mission”, will take place nearly three months after the SCO, in its annual summit in Chinese city of Qingdao.
“The broad objective of the exercise is to boost cooperation among the SCO countries to deal with challenge of terrorism and extremism,” said a military official.
India and Pakistan were admitted as observers of the grouping in 2005 and they were admitted as full members of the bloc last year.
The SCO, seen as a counterweight to NATO, has emerged as one of the largest transregional international organisations which accounts for almost 44 per cent of the world population stretching from the Arctic Ocean to the Indian Ocean and from the Pacific Ocean to the Baltic Sea. The aim of the SCO is to maintain peace, stability and security of the region.
India’s membership was strongly pushed by Russia while Pakistan’s entry into the grouping was backed by China.
India is keen on deepening its security-related cooperation with the SCO and its Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure (RATS).
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Come on!
Ping! Notice we (USA) weren’t invited...
Pakistan? Antiterrorist?
It is to laugh...
The left wants Russia and China to buddy up for WWIII against the US. Been saying this for a while. It’s going to happen and then we’ll be nothing but a mushroom cloud.
I don’t think there will be World War III. Not only is Trump not interested but neither is France, Italy, and much of NATO most notably Germany etc...
I mean as Dick Morris says, Germany is practically a satellite state for Russia at this point with energy/pipeline links and such. But still, it’s worth noting Russia’s activities and use of military, submarine installments, outer space warfare capabilities building, etc...
If there is WWIII...it is already being fought in cyberspace and such. It won’t be mushroom clouds.
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