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Afghanistan
India creating 'anti-Pakistan' Afghanistan: Perv
2010-11-10
[Al Arabiya] Pakistain's former leader Pervez Perv Musharraf said Tuesday that India was trying to create a hostile state in Afghanistan as he hit back at criticism of his country's role in fighting snuffys.
It's like he read the WaPo piece yesterday ...
Musharraf, who is touring the United States as part of a comeback bid, said he has seen photographs of Kabul-based "Pakistain terrorists" -- a likely reference to Baluchistan separatists -- meeting in India with intelligence agents.

"If I'm allowed to be very, very frank, India's role in Afghanistan is to create an anti-Pakistain Afghanistan," Musharraf, a military ruler who stepped down in 2008, said at the Council on Foreign Relations.

"This is very clear to me. There are consulates in picturesque Kandahar and Jalalabad (which) are actually involved in creating trouble in Pakistain. They have no other role," Musharraf said.

"Why wouldn't the consulates be somewhere in the north facing Uzbekistan and Tajikistan?" he asked.

India has consulates in the southern cities of picturesque Kandahar and Jalalabad -- but also in Mazar-i-Sharif in the north and Herat in the west. The Indian embassy in Kabul was targeted in an attack last year claimed by Talibs.

Pakistain has long voiced concern about India's role in Afghanistan.
They do see Hindooz ev'rywhere, don't they ...
US officials have given little credence to the assertions, with President Barack B.O. Obama in a speech Monday to the Indian parliament praising New Delhi's assistance to the war-torn country.

India, not a traditional donor, has committed $1.3 billion to Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime and is building roads, power lines and a new parliament building.
Whereas the Paks contribute guns, ammo, intel and protection to the Taliban. It's a real division of labor ...
Pakistain had been the chief supporter of the Taliban but Musharraf switched sides after the September 11, 2001 attacks and assisted U.S. forces that overthrew the hardline regime.

Musharraf bristled at criticism that Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders -- including perhaps Osama bin Laden -- have been able to escape U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan by crossing into safe havens in Pakistain's lawless border areas.
They're not in the lawless border areas, they're at the guest suite in the Quetta Hilton ...
"Pakistain is trying its best. Why is the responsibility only on Pakistain?" Musharraf said. "Why is the responsibility of their coming into Pakistain not the fault of Afghan forces and US forces and coalition forces?"

"It should be shared at least 50-50 -- we are at fault, you are also at fault," he said.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Its about time we help Afghan and India remove the 'cancer' from South Asia.This wont just benefit South Asia but the rest of the world!
Posted by: Paul2   2010-11-10 08:29  

#3  India could say the same thing about Pak's involvement in Kashmir, so STFU Perv.
Posted by: Spot   2010-11-10 07:59  

#2  A very good argument could be made to Perv, that an un-unified Pakistan is an inherent threat to all, and until the Pakistan government asserts full control over all parts of what is now only nominally a country, can other nations be blamed for regarding the place as a font of exported belligerence.

In other words, Pakistan deserves no respect until there is a Pakistan, not just fractious enclaves held together by string and bubble gum.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-11-10 06:56  

#1  ION DAILY TIMES.PK > DAVID HEADLEY PLANNED TO ATTACK COPENHAGEN [Denmark]: REPORT.

* THAINDIAN NEWS > PAKISTAN MAY SEEK CHINA'S HELP TO STOP INDIA FROM BECOMING A PERMANENT [voting]UNSC MEMBER.

ARTIC = POTUS BAmmer's support of India's UNSC Bid, + lack of Obama plans to visit PAK, proves to many Pakis in Govt + Mainstream that OBAMA = USA'S INTERESTS IN PAKISTAN IS ONLY TEMPORARY + TACTICAL, NOT FAVORED OR LT STRATEGIC AS PER WID INDIA???

* SAME > KABUL: CERTAIN CIRCLES IN PAKISTAN FUNDING [Afghan]INSURGENCY, PROLONG WAR [intentionally] IN AFGHANISTAN. Militant-backed insurgency in Afghanistan will NOT, NEVER END unless PAKISTAN = ISLAMABAD TRULY DESIRES TO END SAME.

* SAME > AFGHAN WAR COULD SPILL OVER INTO PAKISTAN [widout Peace], WARNS DAILY [Daily Times.PK].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-11-10 02:34  

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