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| Paks want to be the Arabs' friend... |
| 2002-05-07 |
| Israeli and Indian strategists agree that Pakistan is angling to become the next strategic ally of Middle East nations. The strategists, meeting for a dialogue in Israel's Bar-Ilan University last month, said Pakistan seeks to become a supplier of intermediate-range missiles for such countries as Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Syria. They said Saudi Arabia would play a major role in financing such deals. Wotta surprise that is. (Yawn!) They're training the Saudi army, too... "Pakistan will sell missiles to Middle East states through fronts," K. Santhanam, director of the Indian Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, said. "Syria is interested in obtained the Ghauri missile." The Ghauri, developed in the 1990s with Chinese help, has a range of up to 1,500 kilometers and can be tipped with a nuclear warhead. Arabs can't have "dignity" without a delivery system. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |