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2007-09-09 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-09-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I am coming, says Nawaz

Don't get any on ya.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-09 03:06|| 2007-09-09 03:06|| Front Page Top

#2 And according to the BBC's Ahmed Rashid, Mullah Diesel is guaranteed a place in Government...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6978240.stm

In the meantime, the army is insisting that Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who leads the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI), be part of any future government, whether it is led by Benazir Bhutto or the ruling Pakistan Muslim League.

The JUI has been the mainstay for the revival of the Taleban in both Pakistan and Afghanistan.

With supervision from Pakistan's intelligence services, thousands of JUI-run madrassas in Balochistan and North West Frontier Province have provided shelter to tens of thousands of extremists from both sides of the border.

Posted by john frum 2007-09-09 10:49|| 2007-09-09 10:49|| Front Page Top

#3 the army is insisting that Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who leads the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI), be part of any future government

john, doesn't this pretty well damn all chances of any significant reform within Pakistan? No matter who takes power? Isn't this a flagrant declaration of "~~business~~ terrorism as usual"?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-09 11:32|| 2007-09-09 11:32|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the Islamist rot has set in too deep in the Pak military...

The Nobel Laureate VS Naipaul called the partition of India "the amputation of a gangrenous limb". He said that all Indian cities would be Karachi had not Karachi ceased being Indian.

Posted by john frum 2007-09-09 12:48|| 2007-09-09 12:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Given this development, Old Patriot's suggestion that Pakistan be divided between Afghanistan and India becomes the only alternative to simply bombing it out of existence. Pakistan is the epitome of a failed state.

This is little other than a formal declaration of terrorist war upon the entire world.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-09 14:39|| 2007-09-09 14:39|| Front Page Top

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