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| India finances trouble in Pakistan: Hagel |
| 2013-02-28 |
[Dawn] India has over the years financed problems for Pakistain from across the border in Afghanistan, says Senator Chuck Hagel, US President Barack ObamaBecause I won... 's nominee for secretary of defence. Mr Hagel, who faces a confirmation vote in the US Senate on Tuesday night or Wednesday, made these remarks in a talk at the Cameron University in Oklahoma in 2011. The video of his speech reappeared on a website of the Washington Free Beacon, an American news portal that publishes associated content from a US conservative perspective. The video gave more fuel to his opponents who were already trying to block his nomination because of the alleged anti-Israeli statements he had made in the past. Mr Hagel's "comments on India's role in Afghanistan during a speech in 2011 provide yet another indication that he is poorly qualified to lead the US Department of Defence", said Lisa Curtis, a South Asia expert at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think-tank. In his talk on Afghanistan, Mr Hagel reportedly said that India had been using Afghanistan as a second front against Pakistain. "India has over the years financed problems for Pakistain on that side of the border, and you can carry that into many dimensions." He noted that India took advantage of tensions between Kabul and Islamabad for fomenting troubles in the areas that border Afghanistan. "The point being [that] the tense, fragmented relationship between Pakistain and Afghanistan has been there for many, many years," he said. Mr Hagel is not the only American to suggest that India has been using Afghanistan for stirring troubles in Pakistain. C. Christine Fair, an assistant professor at Georgetown University, made similar suggestion during a congressional hearing on Afghanistan in 2011 but was later forced to clarify her position following protests from Indian lobbies. Our Correspondent in New Delhi adds: US defence secretary nominee Chuck Hagel has riled Indians after his comments from a 2011 speech in which he accused New Delhi of financing problems for Pakistain through Afghanistan. The remarks sparked a strong reaction from India which said such comments were "contrary to the reality" of its unbounded dedication to the welfare of Afghans. A Times of India report quoted the Indian Embassy in Washington as seeking to play down its importance. "Such comments attributed to Senator Hagel, who has been a longstanding friend of India and a prominent votary of close India-US relations, are contrary to the reality of India's unbounded dedication to the welfare of Afghan people," the embassy said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Thanks for the Dip link Willy: This Dip commenter just bloody NAILS it! D BarnumFebruary 23, 2013 at 9:59 PM Hub and I are still working in our 70s...trying to hang on to our very small business of 2. We tried to warn folks that O wasn't the nice young man the media portrayed the first time around. We thought surely he could be beaten second time around. Were the people that blind and stupid? Thanks to the MSM, yes. And, thanks to the Rs with their collective heads in a gopher hole or some other dark place. They still prefer to be wussies save a few. Read about 'pathological narcissists.' He sure does fit the profile. Carter was inept. But, O knows exactly what he is doing and he told us what he would do! How can intelligent people not understand what he is doing. He and his minions. Hub and I are just average people and we can see it. And, he will turn on the press given the chance. He might have a D after his name but he's not an ordinary liberal Dem. He's not even far left. Progressive doesn't describe him either. I prefer pathological narcissist. God help us but I will continue to email and call our senators and congressmen, as well as, friends and family. I won't go into the good night quietly. We can't give up people. Our country is at stake. Our Constitution. My dad fought in WWII flying planes off carriers for our freedom. My hub fought in Nam for same. We have young friends putting their lives on the line today in foreign lands. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-02-28 16:14 |
| #5 The Hammering Yammering of The Buffoon Elites It is getting harder and harder to write anything worthwhile about the domestic and international political scenes. Everywhere one looks, one sees mountebanks, liars, fools, evil doers, and just plain dopes at work--and all aided by a grotesquely incompetent, lazy, and leftist mass media. The Diplomad |
| Posted by: Willy 2013-02-28 15:14 |
| #4 These next few years will make 1980 look like a dinner party. Hell, they'll probably make the first half of 1942 look like a diner party. |
| Posted by: charger 2013-02-28 11:32 |
| #3 this should be an epic era of stupid at the DOD. Great job, Oblahblah. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-02-28 09:47 |
| #2 Uninformed bovine bloviating. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-02-28 03:20 |
| #1 Is this supposed to bother me? Because it doesn't. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2013-02-28 00:47 |