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2009-10-21 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Steve White 2009-10-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 Pakistan suggested closing the border years ago, but Karzai adamantly opposed it, for the reasons that most goods used in Afghanistan come from Pakistan, and there are many tribes whose territories overlap both countries and would go on the warpath if efforts were made to divide them.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-10-21 00:09|| 2009-10-21 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Is sealing that border remotely possible?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-10-21 00:10|| 2009-10-21 00:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Is sealing that border remotely possible?

It would make sealing the US/Mexico border look like a job for a slow week when not much else was happening.

Posted by phil_b 2009-10-21 03:59|| 2009-10-21 03:59|| Front Page Top

#4 While you can't seal it, you can reduce its permeability a couple of orders of magnitude. As long as you don't get too concerned about collateral damage. But of course minimizing collateral damage and managing public perception is essential to the strategic plan.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-10-21 07:57|| 2009-10-21 07:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Some people, though not everyone, are awfully fond of landmines in that part of the world...

Posted by M. Murcek 2009-10-21 10:42|| 2009-10-21 10:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Some people, though not everyone, are awfully fond of landmines in that part of the world...

That what Muslims have women & children for, MM.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-10-21 10:44|| 2009-10-21 10:44|| Front Page Top

#7 I read the Afgan way to clear mines is to run a herd of goats through the area, kinda hard on the goats, and sometimes the herd-boy, but no loss of anything important(Muslims).

Land mines won't work as a pass stopper.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-10-21 13:00|| 2009-10-21 13:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Not the goats - they are too valuable. Use wives & children.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-10-21 14:37|| 2009-10-21 14:37|| Front Page Top

#9 I seem to remember seeing huge signs announcing "mine fields" when I drove through both the Ecuador-Peru and Peru-Chile borders.

Posted by Bugs Slath3086 2009-10-21 15:52|| 2009-10-21 15:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Ummm, a bit of propaganda there, signs are cheape than actual mines, I'm NOT going to check.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-10-21 18:32|| 2009-10-21 18:32|| Front Page Top

#11 ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > PAKISTAN READY TO NUKE NEW DELHI IN JOINT CONSPIRACY [PAK-CHina, + despite MilTerr threats]?

As per internal PAK sources, Author claims that PAKIS may covertly have up to 250 NUCBOMBS, as compared to 60-rising-to-100 nukes described in a US Congressional Research Service [USCRS] Report.

[ANTONIO BANDERAS "AH YES...SHOW" here].

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