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India-Pakistan
Balochistan and the Yemen war
2015-05-09
[NATION.PK] n 1979, Iran went through a so-called Islamic Revolution that saw the ouster of Iran's king, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and the instalment of Ayatollah Khomeini as the supreme leader of the Islamic Theocratic Republic. There is no doubt that the Arab states, particularly the Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, due to this development, remained watchful. They were also afraid of its extension into the neighbouring countries, including Pakistain. And Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, being the largest province of the country, shares an approximately 900 kilometre long mostly non-existent border with Iran. Moreover, Iran's Seistan-Balochistan province abundantly contains the population of Sunni Baloch in a Shia state. That is why, as independent analysts say, the Saudi-Iran proxy war started in Balochistan in 1979.
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