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India-Pakistan
Taliban to back Pak army in case of hostilities with India
2008-12-23
ISLAMABAD: Hunted by the US and NATO forces for committing acts of terror in Afghanistan, the Taliban said they would back the Pakistan Army by deploying hundreds of suicide bombers in case of any military action with India.

Claiming that "thousands of our well-armed militants are ready to fight alongside the army if any war is imposed on Pakistan," chief of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, told The News daily by phone from an undisclosed location.

Hundreds of would-be bombers had been "given suicide jackets and explosive-laden vehicles for protection of the border in case of any aggression by the Indian forces", he said.
He's too valuable to the cause to wear a suicide jacket himself, of course ...
"The time had come, to wage a real jihad that the Taliban had been waiting for," Mehsud, for whom the Pakistani and US forces are on the look out claimed. "We know very well that the visible and invisible enemies of the country have been planning to weaken this lone Islamic nuclear power. But the mujahideen will foil all such nefarious designs of our enemies," he said.

This is for the first time Mehsud has admitted that Taliban has marshalled thousands of fighters close to the Afghan-Pak border and where Pakistani army has launched a major operation to flush them out. Mehsud said people might question how the Taliban would fight alongside the Pakistan Army when the militants had been fighting the force for a long time.
Posted by:john frum

#9  This map was created by Choudary Rahmat Ali, M.A., L.L.B., Barrister-at-Law.

It was Mr. Rahmat Ali, esq, who coined the name Pakistan.



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Rehmat Ali's concept of Pakistan was nebulous, impractical and fantasy-ridden. It was to include the entire northwest of India, Kashmir, the Kathiawar peninsula, Kutch, and several enclaves deep within UP, including Delhi and Lucknow. There were to be two independent Muslim states besides Pakistan: Bangistan comprising Bengal and Assam in the east and Osmanistan in the south. These two were to form a federation with Pakistan. The 243 principalities or Rajwaras were to be divided among caste Hindus and "others" and then herded together in a ghetto called Hanoodia. As for the Sikhs, they were to be pushed into an enclave called Sikhia. Other races and religions were to inhabit an encampment by the name of Hanadika. Every non-Muslim was to remain subservient to the master race he called "The Paks". And yes, the subcontinent was to be renamed Dinia. He did not say how he was going to bring all that about.
Posted by: john frum   2008-12-23 13:35  

#8  India's the main enemy. The Paks (Qazi and Hafiz Saeed are exemplars) intend to break it up into its component parts and rule it, pretending to be conquerors like the Mughals were.
Posted by: Fred   12/23/2008 13:15  

#7  The time had come, to wage a real jihad...

So all the fighting you have done against NATO has been just practice?
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-12-23 10:55  

#6  I hope India wasn't counting too much on their support.
Posted by: Grunter   2008-12-23 10:14  

#5  not just direct neighbors
Posted by: rabid whitetail   2008-12-23 10:11  

#4  Hated by all their neighbours!!!

I wonder why???
Posted by: Paul2   2008-12-23 09:25  

#3  Really good at fighting stand up battles.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2008-12-23 09:03  

#2  The expeditionary force of the Paki army.
Posted by: ed   2008-12-23 08:24  

#1  Big surprise here.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2008-12-23 08:15  

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