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2003-11-22 India-Pakistan

Jamaat slams Musharrafâs comment on Tribal Areas future

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-11-22 00:25|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Afghanistan conceded the tribal areas to the British empire for a limited duration, I think it was 100 years. This treaty is now expired so in theory the tribal areas should be returned to Aghanistan (I suspect that most non-Pashtuns and the reasonable Pahtuns wouldn't want of them in Aghanistan until they are desnutified).

In order to prevent this, Pakitan's politics have had three constants: 1) make Afghanistan a hell hole through provoking civil wars and supporting the most nutso Pashtun and Sunni supremacists
2) Litterally buy the inhabitants of the tribal areas who are free to establish in all of Pakistan, are exempt of taxes, have self-government and are de-facto allowed to engage into all kinds of smuggling and other illegal activity. Not that it benefits the tribal areas so much: I heard of a village where they had made a lot of money in puppy trading but still had no well: all the money had been used in polygamous marriages and pilgrimages to Mecca
3) Fan fundamentalism in those regions in order to
keep nationalism down. Fund the Deobandi school and the hundreds of madrassas who produce thousands and thousands of fanatics dreaming of Islamic unity (meaning no rivalry with the Punjabis who rule Pakistan), willing to keep the NWFP in 11th century and to go kill kaffirs in Cashmere and Afghanistan (including Shias and Sunnis opposing the Taliban)

Posted by JFM 2003-11-22 2:35:29 AM|| 2003-11-22 2:35:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 made a lot of money in puppy trading ?

Afghans?

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-22 8:22:40 AM|| 2003-11-22 8:22:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 all the money had been used in polygamous marriages and pilgrimages to Mecca

But that's not a problem. Nope. Nope. That's what money's for...

Posted by Fred 2003-11-22 8:44:57 AM|| 2003-11-22 8:44:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 > > all the money had been used in polygamous marriages and pilgrimages to Mecca

> But that's not a problem. Nope. Nope. That's what money's for...

Well I can understand people spending money on women (except that they get a BIG surprise, when they lift the burkha) but not people who spend it on making the Saudis fatter

Posted by JFM 2003-11-22 10:46:03 AM|| 2003-11-22 10:46:03 AM|| Front Page Top

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