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2024-01-19 India-Pakistan

Who Had Iran-Pakistan Nuclear War on Their 2024 Bingo Card?

[PJ] "It's a pity both sides can't lose," Henry Kissinger (in)famously quipped in 1988 about the Iran-Iraq War but he might be saying the same thing from the afterlife about the fight now brewing between Iran and Pakistan.

Early Thursday, the Pakistani Air Force hit "militant hideouts" in Iran with multiple airstrikes, reportedly killing nine. A statement from Islamabad's foreign ministry described the attack as "a series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes." That's Pakistani-speak for "we lobbed bombs in the general direction of the enemy." Really, Thursday's airstrikes were in retaliation for Iranian missile attacks on similar "militant hideouts" in Pakistan on Tuesday — but stick a pin in that detail because I'll get back to it in a moment.

The local advocacy group HalVash "shared videos showing a mud-walled building destroyed and smoke rising over the strike immediately after," according to the AP, which in that neighborhood could have been anything from just a mud-walled building to a mud-walled building sheltering terrorists.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-19 02:36|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Hope, is not a 20 year plan coming to fruition.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-19 09:07|| 2024-01-19 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Do it.

Posted by Angstrom 2024-01-19 09:23|| 2024-01-19 09:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmmm...Pakland isn't doing something similar against India. Wonder why?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-19 10:24|| 2024-01-19 10:24|| Front Page Top

#4 "Pssst, Paks? Iran just said sumpthin' about yer Mom"

Posted by Frank G 2024-01-19 11:24|| 2024-01-19 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Dammmit; had Italy vs. Thailand.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-01-19 11:26|| 2024-01-19 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Pakistan is used to hedge in India, not Iran. I see zero chance. My fingers remain crossed tho.

Posted by mossomo 2024-01-19 13:16|| 2024-01-19 13:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Pakistan cabinet has decided to end standoff with Iran - report

But they struck the last blow. If Iran concurs, it'll lose face.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-19 13:22|| 2024-01-19 13:22|| Front Page Top

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