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India-Pakistan
Nepal Maoists seek new order with India
2008-09-16
As in, who's going to give the orders ...
Nepalese Prime Minister Prachanda visits India apparently determined to change the terms of engagement with his country's giant neighbour. The visit is being watched with great interest as India prepares to work with a Nepal that looks like being governed very differently from the past.

For years Nepalese leaders have expressed a desire to review a peace treaty which has defined relations between the two countries since 1950. Prachanda, under pressure from Maoist comrades not to be pro-India, has gone further. He is being urged to stand up to India and has said he will bring the draft of a new agreement to Delhi.

It was an abortive attempt by the Communist Party of Nepal to seize power with China's backing in 1952, that led India to step up military and intelligence co-operation. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru stressed Nepal's importance for a newly independent India in 1959 when he said "we cannot allow anything to go wrong in Nepal or permit that barrier to be crossed or weakened because that would be a risk to our [India's] security".
Posted by:Steve White

#7  Re: # 6

DING! DING! DING! DING! DING!

WE HAVE A WINNER!
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-09-16 20:29  

#6  ION IRAN-DAILY > ANWAR: ENOUGH SUPPORT TO TOPPLE GOVT. [Malaysia], from Monarchy to majority Popular/National Secul Socialist model.

AS ARGUED TIMES BEFORE ON THE NET, COMMIE-ISLAMIST COLLUSION = "RADICAL ISLAMISTS-MILITANTS DO THE FIGHTIN', COMMIES-MAOISTS SECULARISTS, etc. DO THE GOVERNIN'".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-09-16 20:07  

#5  See also TOPIX > NEPAL'S MAOISTS DESIRE
"REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE" IN INDIA RELATIONS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-09-16 20:01  

#4  A Pakistani cannot be pro-India or a strong ally of India.
Pakistan was created for people who defined themselves as NOT-India.
Posted by: john frum   2008-09-16 15:54  

#3  India is a day late and a dollar short with this. They have long needed to realize that by ignoring their neighbors, especially Pakistan and now Nepal, that they have invited trouble.

Instead, early on and in a continuing effort, they should have cultivated and supported strong allies in both nations.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2008-09-16 11:02  

#2  FREEREPUBLIC/NET POSTERS > opine that what CHINA desires in TIBET/NEPAL, as in GWADAR, is a MILITARY AND TRADE HIGHWAY/CORRIDOR TO PORTS IN SOUTH ASIA, which is prob why it is willing at present to improve relations wid TAIWAN instead of invading same.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-09-16 02:27  

#1  NEWSWEEK > an estimated 40Milyuhn or more CHIN in nations throughout SE ASIA are rediscovering their CHINESE HERITAGE/ROOTS, engaging in local Political, Cultural, and Econ activities in suppor of SAME = PRO-CHIN NATIONALISM, and wid newfound Ethnic enthusiasm.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-09-16 02:24  

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