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2019-08-26 India-Pakistan
War not our choice, but will fight till the end if it is imposed: Fawad Chaudhry
[DAWN] Minister of Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday said that while war was not a choice Islamabad would willingly make, Pakistain was ready to retaliate if it is imposed.

Speaking to news hounds in Lahore, Chaudhry said that Pakistain had made all efforts to take relations with India towards normalisation but they had not been reciprocated.

Recalling that Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
had once promised that Pakistain will take two steps towards peace if India takes one, Chaudhry warned: "We have stated that if you [India] work towards peace, we will reciprocate. But if you want to wage war, we will fight back till the end."

At the Kartarpur Corridor groundbreaking ceremony, the premier had said that one is supposed to learn from history, not live in it, Chaudhry recalled.

When asked about the role of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Moslem bloc in the Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
dispute, Chaudhry said: "There is no Moslem bloc now. [...] All Moslem countries are embroiled in conflict. [Of the] countries that are stable, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
is standing by us; the rest will take decisions according to their own interests.

"No doubt, there is disappointment in Pakistain over the award recently conferred upon [Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi] by the UAE. We consider UAE as a friend to Pakistain and it must not be forgotten that Pakistain had a huge role in making Dubai what it is today."

Posted by Fred 2019-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Pakistan 

#1 Pakistain had a huge role in making Dubai what it is today.

What ? In the same sense that 'African Americans have immensely contributed to the rise of the USA' ?
Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-26 02:43||   2019-08-26 02:43|| Front Page Top

#2 All Moslem countries are embroiled in conflict

"Islam has bloody borders"
-S. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations, ca 1995
Posted by Lex 2019-08-26 06:35||   2019-08-26 06:35|| Front Page Top

#3 So he's volunteering?
Posted by charger 2019-08-26 08:48||   2019-08-26 08:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Are they still going on about Kashmir or is this some new bit if whinging? My eyes glazed over reading the article.
Posted by SteveS 2019-08-26 18:52||   2019-08-26 18:52|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by 3dc 2019-08-26 19:57||   2019-08-26 19:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Steve, they're still going on about Kashmir. It's a very bitter loss to them. All the Jamaats and alliances with militant factions that support their own fragile democracy depended on the promise of delivering Kashmir as a new haven and opening into the sub-continent. And to China they promised dominance of the entire Karakorum range.

A cash cow and a bugbear at the same time, they know it's gone forever now. But they've got to play to their own galleries. Their inflow of cash to their non-state actors solicited from Qatar, UAE, Iran, by top ISI brass - islamist donations for the liberation of Kashmir. All gone.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-26 19:57||   2019-08-26 19:57|| Front Page Top

#7  All the Jamaats and alliances with militant factions ...

Interesting, Dron. I suspect that pent-up energy will have to be channeled somewhere.
Posted by SteveS 2019-08-26 22:29||   2019-08-26 22:29|| Front Page Top

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