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India-Pakistan
No talks with terrorists
2008-04-08
The new coalition government will not negotiate with “terrorists”, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Monday.
In Muslim parlance, I think that means Israel and the U.S. Everybody else is freedumb fighters.
“We will not negotiate with terrorists, but we will engage [them in dialogue] and we believe in political engagement,” Qureshi told Dawn News television in an interview. He said the new government would adopt a multi-pronged strategy to combat terrorism, as military force alone was not the only solution. He said the PPP-led coalition government would engage the local population “politically”.

The Foreign minister said that it was a mistaken perception that Pakistan was fighting the USÂ’ war on terror, adding that terrorism was affecting PakistanÂ’s people and economy. He said the new government would convince the people that the war on terror was in PakistanÂ’s best interest.
Posted by:Fred

#5  Pappy - the most coherent evaluation I've seen show 14 "sides", each against at least three of the others, and no more than two able to work with each other. I don't see any way peace can continue in southern Africa - not just South Africa - more than a couple of more years. Zimbabwe is set to implode, the mess called the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) can't stop fighting, the Tutsis and Hutus still hate each other in Rwanda, a lot of the problems in Zimbabwe are spilling over into Zambia and South Africa, the Mozambique is a powderkeg waiting for a match, and the tensions in Angola are just under the surface. That crazy king in Lesotho hates the king of Swaziland, and both hate South Africa. There isn't any stability in the whole damned continent other than the stability of dead bodies.

To the Paks, everyone but a pakistani is a terrorist, especially the Indians. To the Indians, everyone west of the demarkation line is three bricks shy of a load. The US is beginning to understand how the Indians came to their current conclusion.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2008-04-08 23:37  

#4  Possibly tribal in origin, tho it would more likely be a coalition of ANC hard-leftists, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP), versus the current ANC establishment.
Posted by: Pappy   2008-04-08 17:13  

#3  What civil war in South Africa, JosephM? The Zulus against another tribe? The Whites no longer have a monopoly on weaponry as they did in the days of apartheid.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-04-08 09:54  

#2  RENSE.com > AFRICAN CRISIS.org - RUSSIAN GENERAL WARNS OF PENDING SERIOUS, MURDEROUS FUTURE CIVIL WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. ASSESSES SA MIL READINESS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-04-08 01:40  

#1  LUCIANNE > SECRET US PLAN FOR MILITARY FUTURE IN IRAQ. Iraq = Germany-Japan in 1945 and US taint leaving.

ALso from LUCIANNE > WAPO > IRREGULAR WARFARE - BOTH FUTURE AND PRESENT. New USDOD-Army Doctrine of "3 D's" -Defense, Diplomacy, and Development.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-04-08 01:37  

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