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| India-Pakistan |
| Musharraf to travel to Saudi Arabia, UAE |
| 2002-06-07 |
| Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will visit Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on June 10-12, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced on Friday. Musharraf hopes to "further strengthen Pakistan's relations with these brotherly countries," the statement said. That's where the money is. You can't buy guns without money. Snuggling real close with the Wahhabis is also a way to show the USA that the Paks aren't beholden to them... On Sunday, Musharraf dispatched five envoys on a diplomatic offensive to relay Islamabad's position and policy on the crisis with India. Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari, who was dispatched to Germany and Egypt, asked the Cairo-based Arab League on Thursday to intervene in defusing tensions with India. Leghari urged the 22-member league to use its good relations with Pakistan and India to help resolve the crisis. Saudi Arabia is a founding member of the Arab League and the United Arab Emirates is a member. "Ummm... Those are our chestnuts in the fire. Would you mind pulling them out, just as a fraternal Islamic gesture, please?" Leghari said the danger of war between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours could spill into other states in the region and possibly start a bigger war. If war broke out "neither side will be the winner, we will both be the losers," Leghari said after giving a speech at the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs. So why'd you let a bunch of crazed killers pull you to the brink of war? If your spit's pulled from the street, what's to say it's not going to end up there again in six months? In fact, it was less than six months ago that Pak and India were last on the verge of war. Did Perv sleep through that? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |