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| Attack on Iran to be considered strike on Ummah, says Pak FM Kasuri |
| 2006-04-29 |
| ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has said that Afghan and US forces stationed in Afghanistan could do more in the war against terrorism. In an interview with BBC TV, the foreign minister said that Iran’s issue should be settled through diplomatic channels instead of force. He observed that attack on the Islamic republic by Israel or the US would be considered aggression against the entire Ummah. The foreign minister said like India Pakistan also needed nuclear energy to meet its increasing power needs for the fast expanding economy. He asked the United States to help Pakistan meet its growing needs. To a question, he said that as Iran’s nuclear programme was purely peaceful, nobody should be concerned about it. He claimed that Pakistan would become the fourth largest democracy in the world in 2021. On Pakistan’s unwavering commitment to combating terrorism and the robust measures taken by it, Kasuri said that Pakistan had deployed more forces along its border with Afghanistan than the number of troops the Afghan National Army, US and ISAF had collectively deployed on the Afghanistan side of the border. “We have suffered more casualties than the US, ANA and ISAF,” he said. He maintained that 600 Pakistani soldiers had been martyred in anti-terror operations while, in comparison, only 200 coalition troops had lost their lives in Afghanistan, adding Pakistan had done more than any other country in war on terrorism. The foreign minister termed Kabul’s charges of Pakistan’s involvement in violence in Afghanistan as baseless and concocted. |
| Posted by:john |
| #10 1) We ain't falling. 2) The world would not want us to fall because we would never go quietly into the dark. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-04-29 23:22 |
| #9 These people better hope when the US falls it goes with a wimper, because if not the rest of the world is F*cked. |
| Posted by: djohn66 2006-04-29 23:11 |
| #8 “We have suffered more casualties than the US, ANA and ISAF,” he said. Well, yeah, because Pakistan has so many people on the other side. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-04-29 22:53 |
| #7 Why oh why do more and more of these countries ask us to help them commit sucide? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-04-29 22:35 |
| #6 ??? Moose - I agree??? WTF? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-04-29 22:22 |
| #5 N, the Mullhas want Radical-controlled Iran to be the SOLE CENTER OF MUSLIM POWER IN THE WORLD, THE HYPERPOWER, NUCLEARIZED, MODERN AMERICA OF THE MUSLIM UNIVERSE. Pakistan and any other Islamic or non-Islamic nation(s) are all future provinces of Tehran, at best a PC Radical Iranian version of North Korea or Cuba, de facto controlled by others but technically or legally un-annexed. THE DESIRED DEFEAT, SUBORNMENT, ANDOR DESTRUCTION OF THE HYPERPOWER USA IN NO WAY GUARANTEES THE STATE-SPECIFIC AMBITIONS OF "MANIFEST DESTINY" OF NON-IRANIAN MUSLIM NATIONS, ETAL. WILL BE ACHIEVED. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-04-29 22:10 |
| #4 Everyone assumes that either the US or Israel will attack first, that Iran would never dream of lashing out, even if it did so in a stupid an ineffective manner. No doubt the Ummah would jump to Iran's defense if it started a war and got its butt kicked for its trouble. Flimsy rationalizations are a dime a dozen. However, unlike with Iraq, this time I doubt the US would be so gentle. Our top priorities would be to neutralize their missiles, and then to "reduce" their armed forces and Revolutionary Guard. Lovely US Civil War term, that. Without missiles and without a military, Iran is our biatch. Once we eliminate those two, then the Ummah can piss and moan all night for what we care. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-04-29 21:40 |
| #3 Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has said that Afghan and US forces stationed in Afghanistan could do more in the war against terrorism. "Bomb us!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-04-29 21:20 |
| #2 He observed that attack on the Islamic republic by Israel or the US would be considered aggression against the entire Ummah. And the world fears this Ummah? |
| Posted by: john 2006-04-29 21:05 |
| #1 He claimed that Pakistan would become the fourth largest democracy in the world in 2021 Pakistan will exist in 2021 ? |
| Posted by: john 2006-04-29 21:03 |