Have you got arms for sale? India needs them!

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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India’s official hunger for terror goods is simply amazing! Perhaps India is incomparable in this respect with world nations. But India is  proud of its  weapons status at the cost of common people who are suffering  due to mal nutrition and  laughable  and pathetic poverty levels.

Rather India, calming to be democracy,  is not at all ashamed of its false pretensions as a weapon state.

Post-Cold war India has amassed huge resources by selling all state properties to their favorite multinationals and it does not want to spend on the poor whom the resources really belong.  Indian leaders and bureaucracy and military do not want to think it wise to spend the extra money made out of state property sales because they consider the poor as  a  beggar class  not requiring any sympathy in the emerging crony capitalist scenario worldwide, led by  super power and unilateral America.

The five largest arms suppliers worldwide between 2009 and 2013 were the United States (29 percent of global exports), Russia (27 percent), Germany (7 percent), China (6 percent) and France (5 percent).

They collectively accounted for 74 percent of total arms exports.

Britain was the largest importer of major weapons in Europe (receiving

12 percent of deliveries), followed by Azerbaijan (12 percent) and Greece (11 percent).

World’s top five arms importers were now India, China, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Indian leaders, living as parasites by depending on corporates, think their duty to promote the interests of the rich and corporates.  Some of them are also involved in arms sale and military deals.

Sale of arms has been increasing globally on large scale. World weapon sales are now up 14 per cent with USA, Russia, and China taking the lead in terrorizing the humanity already trembling with NATO-Israel fascist wars.

An innocent looking India remains the top ranked buyer of terror goods form all possible regional arms markets.

India thus remains the biggest buyer of arms in the world, importing nearly three times as many weapons as its nearest competitors China and Pakistan over the last five years.

However, New Delhi is not fully satisfied w the arms arsenals it possesses now, it wants to further increase them and waste nation’s resources instead of spending on the needy people. . .

India replaced China as the world’s biggest arms buyer in 2010. With its domestic defence industry struggling to manufacture high-tech arms, India is in the midst of a defence spending binge as it struggles to keep up with better-equipped Chinese forces and a range of military challenges in its volatile neighborhood.  Indian imports of major weapons rose by 111 percent in the last five years compared to 2004-08. Its share of total global arms imports increased from 7 to

14 percent.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the total volume of arms sales was up 14 percent in 2009-13 compared to the previous five years .The main supplier of arms to India in 2009-13 was Russia, accounting for 75 percent of all imports — reflecting India’s need to upgrade and modernize weapons systems dating back to their close relationship during the Cold War.

In order to keep the big powers in good humors to retain Kashmir, India has lately sought to diversify its sources, looking particularly to the USA.  India became the biggest buyer of US weapons last year — with total imports worth $1.9 billion, and a string of large-scale purchases including Boeing’s C-17A transport aircraft and P-8I Maritime Patrol Aircraft.  In 2009-13, however, the US still accounted for only 7 percent of India’s purchases.. Pakistan increased its weapons acquisitions, growing from 2 percent of the global total to 5 percent during that period.

Chinese, Russian and US arms supplies to South Asia are driven by both economic and political considerations. In particular, China and the USA appear to be using arms deliveries to Asia to strengthen their influence in the region. Arms exports to Africa between 2004-08 and

2009-13 jumped 53 percent. The three largest importers in the region were Algeria, Morocco and Sudan. It is noteworthy that the imports by European nations decreased by 25 percent between 2004-2008 and 2009-13.

In order to allow the regimes to buy more and more arms, the rulers terrorize the people by secret joint operations with neighboring nations for generating fear and tensions. India does this tragic operation by colluding with Pakistan of course secretly and in a discreet manner.  The new cross border trade and transport enables both India and Pakistan to undertake  terror projects in Kashmir.

Weapons are necessary for the pure defence of the nations but India simply cheats the people in buying huge piles of terror arsenals, both conventional and nuclear by making a self-destabilizing Pakistan as its prime target. Pakistan depends on USA for arms and destabilization process of Islamabad.

India is deadly sure USA would not invade India in the near future thank mainly to India money flowing restlessly into America, among other important powers. All that India wants is the US-EU-China support for its illegal occupation of neighboring Kashmir, brutally.

West and China also shield Indian crimes against humanity. .

The nations that have just bare minimum terror goods and military

equipment exist   healthier than others that keep buying arms in

sustained manners, thereby only helping the ruling parties to make huge money in commissions from weapon mafias. .

The new ruling party or coalition should consider seriously about making the poor and under privileged sections of the nation in better living conditions.

Needless to state here that only the Aam Aadmi party has the capacity and we ill  to implement that policy  the best possible ways.