[Reader-list] Kashmir-Tanks on busy market squares - Harsh Mander

[S. Jabbar]

!! Do you really think the ability to distinguish between weaponry should
become a criterion in the administrative services?



From: Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 06:52:05 -0700 (PDT)
To: Sarai <reader-list at sarai.net>, "S. Jabbar" <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Kashmir-Tanks on busy market squares - Harsh
Mander

Well! Well! Well!
 
Mander is Ex IAS. Doesn't speak well of IAS.
 
Tanks have 'Tracks' and APCs (at least in India) are wheeled. The girth and
general size are distinctly different.
 
I thought highly of Mander after his resigning from Govt service as a
protest against the 'Gujarat Riots". But now .....
 

--- On Wed, 9/3/08, S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Kashmir-Tanks on busy market squares - Harsh Mander
> To: kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com, "Sarai" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 6:58 PM
> 
> A common mistake that people make when they come across armoured vehicles
> with LMGs mounted on top.
> 
> 
>> > From: Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
>> > Reply-To: <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
>> > Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 06:14:17 -0700 (PDT)
>> > To: sarai list <reader-list at sarai.net>
>> > Subject: [Reader-list] Kashmir-Tanks on busy market squares - Harsh Mander
>> > 
>> > The well known personality Harsh Mander is quoted as saying:
>  
> """"""" Even in
>> > small towns, you encounter even today bullet-proof tanks stationed on busy
>> > market squares ...... """""
>  
> Would someone please let me know if this is
>> > true. Are there 'tanks' stationed on busy market squares even in
> the small
>> > towns of Kashmir? This is the first time I have heard of this.
>  
> Ex IAS cadre
>> > and current Director Action Aid India, Harsh Mander is not expected to
> speak
>> > untruths. He is unlikely to mistake some other vehicle for being a
>> > "tank".
>  
> If it is true then it is shameful.
>  
> If it is not true, then Harsh
>> > Mander was being deliberately and deviously deceitful. "Tanks"
> being stationed
>> > at busy market squares 'even in small towns' presents quite a
> damning
>> > picture.
>  
> The quote is from a Press Release (02/09/08) by 'Kashmiri American
>> > Council'  about a seminar in Columbus, Ohio, USA . It was at
> a convention of
>> > ISNA (Islamic Society of North America).
>  
> Kshmendra
> 
> 
> 
>> >
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