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2010-01-21 India-Pakistan

Pakistani troops fire into India for over an hour

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Posted by john frum 2010-01-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 I'll take "cover fire to infiltrators" for $500, Bob.

Posted by Swanimote 2010-01-21 09:03|| 2010-01-21 09:03|| Front Page Top

#2 In the old days, "India" ran clear up into Afghanistan. See Kipling.
The Indian Army's staff college was at Quetta, now in Pakistan.
Busting that up wasn't so bright,now, was it?
Theoretically, it was to prevent a civil war in India after independence. In the event, Joe Shit the Ragpicker and Mrs. Shit and all the little Shits killed one million of their friends and neighbors while the various government forces tried to stop them.
Jesus wept.
What a bunch.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2010-01-21 11:16|| 2010-01-21 11:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Map those firing points.

Posted by mojo 2010-01-21 15:25|| 2010-01-21 15:25|| Front Page Top

#4 In even older days, India included all of Afghanistan and a small part of Iran

Posted by john frum 2010-01-21 17:46|| 2010-01-21 17:46|| Front Page Top

#5 The Pakistani journalist Ayaz Amir on the reason for the partition of British India
But to recap the usual factors held responsible for the founding of Pakistan, Islam was not in danger in pre-1947 India. Indeed, considering the sectarian violence and religious bigotry we face today, it was in better health then. Nor was democracy the issue because even if partition had not happened, India was getting democracy once the British left. The Indian Independence Act promised that.

So what was the compelling reason for the Muslims to insist on a separate homeland especially when there was no going around the uncomfortable fact that, no matter how generously the frontiers of the new state were drawn, an uncomfortably large number of Muslims would remain in India?

The purpose of Pakistan, transcending anything to do with safeguarding Islam or promoting democracy, was to create conditions for the Muslims of India, or those who found themselves in the new state, to recreate the days of their lost glory.

Posted by john frum 2010-01-21 17:48|| 2010-01-21 17:48|| Front Page Top

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