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| Afghanistan moot: Pak offers to train Afghan military, police |
| 2010-01-29 |
| [Geo News] Pakistan has offered to train the Afghan military and police, said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in his address during the International Conference on Afghanistan here Thursday. That should work... Not well, but it should work... The Pakistan Foreign Minister said Afhgnistan needs to train 300,000 Afghan troops by 2011 and it is in this context that Pakistan has made the training offer. Right. If I had an army to train I'd pick a country that had never won a war to do it... He said Afghanistan has sought help from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for holding negotiations with the Taliban. British foreign secretary, David Miliband on the occasion termed the deployment of NATO's special representative for Afghanistan as a positive step. He said that Afghan president Hamid Karzai had asked the Taliban to sever its connections with Al-Qaeda. David Miliband announced 1.4 billion dollars financial help for Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Taliban have rejected the International Conference on Afghanistan, according to a website. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 "Pakistan - a nation too big to fail" has become "Pakistan - a failure too big to be a nation" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-01-29 17:54 |
| #3 Trailing wife If Pahstuns break away then it will be Balochs and then Sindh and so on until the Pakistani elite, not exclusively but mostly, Punjabi has to work for a living Anyway nationalist Pashtuns complain about how Pakistan has done everything in order to fill Pashtun territories with madrassas instead of regular schools. It is logic: Pakistan wants Pashtuns think of themselves as Muslims first so they don't resent domination by Punjabis. I have several times posted about how the plurinational state of Pakistan whose only cement is Islam will naturally tend to radicalization as the only way to keep people of thinking "Why, we ... should we accept the Punjabi domination and Punjabis getting rich with our natural resources" and thus why we should aim to Pakistan's implosion. With the "little" problem of defanging it from its nukes, those nukes acquired during Clinton's watch. Anyway you don't handle the training of your military to a country who is not your friend |
| Posted by: JFM 2010-01-29 10:03 |
| #2 JFM, given the problems the Pashtuns are causing within Pakistan recently, the Punjabs and Sindhs might be better off setting the Pashtuns free to fight among themselves. Not that the mighty panjandrums in Islamabad are likely to see it that way. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-01-29 08:58 |
| #1 Fox offers to guard hens. Since its independence Pakistan has ever tried to make Afghanistan a satellite state and for at least three decades to make it a militant islamist state (It patronized Hykmatyar first, the Taliban later) because such would be likelier to help it against India and less likely to make fuss about the, now expired, Durand treaty. Also Pakistan has an interest in Afghanistan being failed state otherwise its Pashtuns could want to join it and break from Pakistan. |
| Posted by: JFM 2010-01-29 04:25 |