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| India-Pakistan |
| As ties with US sour, Pak cosies up to China, Saudi Arabia |
| 2011-09-28 |
| Pakistan is pulling out all stops to offset rising tensions with the US and possible economic and military sanctions by reaching out to its closest allies, Saudi Arabia and China. Days after the stinging accusation that the ISI was backing Afghan insurgents, Islamabad tried to please Beijing by vowing to root out Uighur militants holed up in its territory and staged war games with Saudi Arabia, besides sending and receiving top intelligence officials from the Gulf kingdom. "China's enemy is Islamabad's enemy," interior minister Rehman Malik told visiting Chinese vice-prime minister Meng Jianzhu on Tuesday, and vowed to "strike very hard against" Uighur militants based in his country. Alongside, ISI chief Shuja Pasha was dispatched to Riyadh to hold talks with Saudi officials. Malik said Pakistan had killed and extradited several Uighur militants responsible for attacks in China's western Xinjiang province. The Uighur rebels are known to be receiving training in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas. Earlier, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said the two countries were true friends and that they count on each other after. "Thank you once again...for (the) supportive statement in favour of Pakistan's sovereignty and integrity." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 Hope the Chicoms have plenty of engineers to throw into the breech. Paks are rough on Chinese engineers. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-09-28 14:38 |
| #6 The Chinese and Paks have been "business" parners for decades. They get a lot of their military hardware from them. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2011-09-28 14:03 |
| #5 china probably sees Pakistan as a market for Chinese goods (as well as help with the Uighur problem) China will likely be sorely disappointed on both these issues. Pakistan will only be able to purchase Chinese products by current account deficits and will try to get the Chinese to finance this. As for the Uighurs, Pakistan will likely have about as much success in this as they have with other groups of this nature. The Saudis, on the other hand, have already poured huge resources into Pakistan, mainly the funding of mosques and madras. The more Islamic Pakistan has become, the more violence has resulted and the more suffering. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2011-09-28 12:53 |
| #4 Pakis and ChiComs...I can't think of two groups of people more deserving of each other. Hey, throw in the Soddies and you have a threesome. Good for them. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-09-28 12:17 |
| #3 I wouldn't wish Pakis upon my worst enemy. Scratch that ... I would. |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-09-28 07:21 |
| #2 "China's enemy..." > read, INDJUH + JAPAN. IMO Nuke-armed Pakistan = Nuke wannabe Iran = prefer to stay on the Media, Geopol defensive for time being - the real crux is what shennanigans the Hard Boyz will initiate agz India. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-09-28 00:20 |
| #1 China should never forget that they told the US the same about Binny as they are China about the Uighurs... Snakes and ankle bites and all that jazz. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-09-28 00:18 |