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2006-05-07 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john 2006-05-07 12:09|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Pakis have better roads in the area - that's bad. I'd be working like mad on the Indian side to improve logistics to the area.

Posted by 6 2006-05-07 12:34|| 2006-05-07 12:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Terrain on the Indian side is pretty formidable.
If the Indian army vacates the high ground and Pak troops capture it, they will be almost impossible to remove.

There is a history of Indian expectations of Pak goodwill.

Indira Gandhi gave back captured territory at the Tashkent conference, released 90,000 POWs, in exchange for a promise to convert the LOC to an international border.

Her father Jawalharal Nehru gave the lions share of water under the Indus Water treaty to Pakistan, in the hope that it would encourage friendship.

Another PM, IK Gujral stopped all RAW activities in Balochistan, allegedly handing over names of operatives, in exchange for a Pak promise to rein in militants.

It seems Manmohan Singh is simarly inclined.

Part of the problem may be the shared history of these generations of leaders. They were born in the Raj era - British India and have fond memories of the time before partition.

Younger Indians have no longing for lost brothers. They only know Pakistanis as the enemy. They grew up under constant terrorist attacks and are far less likely to trust Pakistan or even care about "peace" or normalized relations.

Posted by john 2006-05-07 13:28|| 2006-05-07 13:28|| Front Page Top

#3 I wouldn't trust a Pak to take out my trash - You don't see many Indian incursions across the LOC to kill innocents? They're Muslim, and honor bound to lie

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-07 13:55|| 2006-05-07 13:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Do their next rounds of nuke testing under the glacier in an attempt to shift it or make it unstable.

Posted by 3dc 2006-05-07 17:43|| 2006-05-07 17:43|| Front Page Top

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