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2011-06-08 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2011-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 "What I can say is there is a 98 per cent chance he is dead"

Given that it's Pakistan, I'd say it's more like a 2% chance.

We are but invisible victims, such are our woes.

And that sums up the Pakistani mindset.

Posted by Pappy 2011-06-08 00:46|| 2011-06-08 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 "Illusory sovereignty" > Maybe its just me, but every time I see or read this phase on the Net IMO it sounds like Pakistan's Govt. is trying hard NOT to admit that THEY HAVE NO SOVEREIGNTY, HAVE SUBJECTIVE OR SURREAL SOVEREIGNTY, OR HAVE DUBIOUS SOVEREIGNTY???

Not "clear" sovereignty, not "indisputable" or "absolute" or "concise",not even "allusory"???

[KELLY'S HEROES ODDBALL = "DON'T HIT ME WID DEM NEGATIVE WAVES [Vibes] SO EARLY IN THE MORNING" here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-06-08 01:14|| 2011-06-08 01:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Now that the P3s are down and out the Iranians are floating submarines?

Posted by Skidmark 2011-06-08 03:27|| 2011-06-08 03:27|| Front Page Top

#4 ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PAKISTAN ALLEGEDLY HELPED BIN LADEN TO GET US AID.

ARTIC = Islamabad felt alone + abandoned by the US-NATO/West after the defeat + withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan, + the follow-on fall in 1992 of the post-Soviet secular Kabul Govt [Najibullah] by the Hekmatyr Network - PAK WAS LEFT TO DEAL WID VARIOUS DOMESTIC, REGIONAL ANTI-GOVT,ANTI-PAK MILITANT FACTIONS + "INDIA" THREAT, ETC. BY ITSELF, + MISSED US = US-NATO LEADERSHIP + $$$. Hence Islamabad decided to get the best of all worlds + chose to covertly foster Internat Terror while simul protecting the major MilTerr Personages, Groups [e.g. OBL]+ while post-911 also using the US-NATO to get rid of lessor or troublesome MilTerrs + also contain India.

HMMMMM, HMMMMM,about the only thing missing in this Artic is how PAK truly sees + positions itself in the emerging SHIA-IRAN-VS-SUNNI-SAUDI-ARABIA struggle for the control of Islam + by extens the Islamic/Muslim World. PAK MAY BE AN ALLY OF THE KSA, BUT LIKE IRAN IT WANTS TO BE A "GREAT STATE/POWER" [Regional, Global] EVEN IFF IT ULTIMAT MEANS CHALLENGING THE KSA'S AUTHORITY, OR IRAN'S, ETC. FOR THAT MATTER.
Muslim PAK's national desire to dominate South Asia vee Hindu India [ + Afghanistan = India, Central Asia] has always been part of the Indo-Pak equation.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-06-09 00:21|| 2011-06-09 00:21|| Front Page Top

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