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2009-10-24 India-Pakistan

Huge anti-Pak protests in PoK, violence erupts

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Posted by john frum 2009-10-24 07:08|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 We need to see more of this!

Posted by Ebbuper Ghibelline7533 2009-10-24 12:15|| 2009-10-24 12:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Cynical the Paks always can do. Cheap is a must since they barely have two sticks to rub together, especially after President Ten-Percent gets his. You'll not often see 'expensive and cynical' together in Pak-land ...

Posted by Steve White 2009-10-24 15:44|| 2009-10-24 15:44|| Front Page Top

#3 The tactic of Pak soldiers in mufti being passed off as tribals has been used several times.

In 1947, Pak officers led a rag tag militia of Pashtuns to seize Kashmir from the Maharajah, who was dithering over Lord Mountbatten's choice of joining India or joining Pakistan.

The tribals did much looting on the way and stopped to abduct several Catholic nuns from a convent they ransacked. While they were busy indulging in looting and rape, the Indians grabbed every transport they could find and airlifted their army into Kashmir.

In 1965 there was Operation Gibralter. Pak soldiers pretending to be tribals infiltrated across the LOC. The local Kashmiri shepherds alerted the Indian army. Soon Indian tanks were moving across the international border and heading for Lahore.

In 1999, the SSG commandos and Northern Light Infantry, in the garb of 'mujahideen' seized several unoccupied posts from where they could cut off the Indian national highway and force a surrender of the Indian garrison. A local Kashmiri shepherd alerted the Indian army. Soon hundreds of artillery pieces were blasting those mountaintop posts and Gurhka and Naga soldiers chopping off heads at 12000 ft.

Pakistan even refused to take back their dead, disavowing them. One Pakistani father, a veteran of the British Indian Army in WW2 approached the Indian HQ in Delhi to get back the body of his son.

Pakistan has given land in Kashmir to Army veterans from the Punjab. These settlers are not welcome by the locals.

In contrast, article 371 of the Indian constitution protects Kashmir. No law passed by the Indian parliament is valid in Kashmir unless also passed by the Kashmir legislature. No non-Kashmiri Indian citizen may buy or own land in Kashmir. Kashmiri MPs sit in the Indian parliament. Many are Federal ministers. One, Nehru, was a Prime Minister. Representation without Taxation!

Posted by john frum 2009-10-24 15:49|| 2009-10-24 15:49|| Front Page Top

#4 That should be article 370.

371 is a similar article which applies to the North East of India. It protects the tribal people there, with their tradition of communal land ownership, from the timber and mining barons who would have otherwise moved into the NE.

Posted by john frum 2009-10-24 16:00|| 2009-10-24 16:00|| Front Page Top

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