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2010-01-29 Afghanistan

Afghanistan moot: Pak offers to train Afghan military, police

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 Fox offers to guard hens.

Since its independence Pakistan has ever tried to make Afghanistan a satellite state and for at least three decades to make it a militant islamist state (It patronized Hykmatyar first, the Taliban later) because such would be likelier to help it against India and less likely to make fuss about the, now expired, Durand treaty. Also Pakistan has an interest in Afghanistan being failed state otherwise its Pashtuns could want to join it and break from Pakistan.

Posted by JFM 2010-01-29 04:25|| 2010-01-29 04:25|| Front Page Top

#2 JFM, given the problems the Pashtuns are causing within Pakistan recently, the Punjabs and Sindhs might be better off setting the Pashtuns free to fight among themselves. Not that the mighty panjandrums in Islamabad are likely to see it that way.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-29 08:58|| 2010-01-29 08:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Trailing wife

If Pahstuns break away then it will be Balochs and then Sindh and so on until the Pakistani elite, not exclusively but mostly, Punjabi has to work for a living

Anyway nationalist Pashtuns complain about how Pakistan has done everything in order to fill Pashtun territories with madrassas instead of regular schools. It is logic: Pakistan wants Pashtuns think of themselves as Muslims first so they don't resent domination by Punjabis.

I have several times posted about how the plurinational state of Pakistan whose only cement is Islam will naturally tend to radicalization as the only way to keep people of thinking "Why, we ... should we accept the Punjabi domination and Punjabis getting rich with our natural resources" and thus why we should aim to Pakistan's implosion. With the "little" problem of defanging it from its nukes, those nukes acquired during Clinton's watch.

Anyway you don't handle the training of your military to a country who is not your friend

Posted by JFM 2010-01-29 10:03|| 2010-01-29 10:03|| Front Page Top

#4 "Pakistan - a nation too big to fail" has become "Pakistan - a failure too big to be a nation"

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-29 17:54|| 2010-01-29 17:54|| Front Page Top

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