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2006-05-16 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Steve White 2006-05-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Pakistan has sacrificed more in terms of the human lives than the combined loss of Afghanistan and ISAF (the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan), Aslam said.

That may well be true: Pakistani troops aren't nearly as good at not getting killed as our guys, and I'll venture to bet that the Afghani troops are already better trained in the critical arts of soldiering. But pointlessly sacrificing your troops is not a virtue in a real war such as this. Sorry.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-16 08:19|| 2006-05-16 08:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Most of the troops killed are paramilitary and from army units recruited from the region. Poorly trained, they are considered expendible by the Punjabi dominated Pak Army brass.

The overall jihad terror operation run by the ISI remains intact...

Posted by john 2006-05-16 17:36|| 2006-05-16 17:36|| Front Page Top

#3 There was stuff recently about paki troops trying to raid balochistan for (alleged)terrorist hideouts.

Their colonel was sincere, partly western educated, well intentioned, encouraging his troops saying they were the true soldiers of Allah, not the tribesmen.

He also had sufficient resources to do his job.

Every village he raided, every compound he visited every hideout he turned up at was empty, sometimes by minutes.

His superiors were deliberatly frustrating his efforts, members of the ISI continously leaked his orders to the tribesmen to the state where they were leaving notes naming his soldiers.

If you were a professional soldier in wackypakiland you would probably welcome a stand up fight with India, you would get slaughtered but at least you would know who your friends were.

Posted by pihkalbadger 2006-05-16 20:35|| 2006-05-16 20:35|| Front Page Top

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