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2007-07-21 India-Pakistan

Islamists are threatening to turn Pakistan into Afghanistan: report

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Posted by Fred 2007-07-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 Here's a clue: Pakistan has been nearly identical to Afghanistan for some time now. Only collusion with the state has prevented it from being quite so apparent. Perhaps they did not have the Taliban's rampant morals police, but the jihad pipeline has always been crammed just as full if not more so. Pakistan is an enemy of the world.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-21 00:58|| 2007-07-21 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 I have to say Pakistan does seem to be sliding toward Afghan style disintegration. The end game may be an independent Baluchistan, Pashtun areas ceded to Afghanistan (or a new Pashtun state) and a rump Pakistan in the Indus valley.

Posted by phil_b 2007-07-21 01:28|| 2007-07-21 01:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Inshallah!

Posted by gromgoru 2007-07-21 09:30|| 2007-07-21 09:30|| Front Page Top

#4 But it would also have to agree that the way to isolate the Taliban cannot be through force alone but by a programme of social justice throughout Pakistan, with free, comprehensive and adequate public education being the priority.

I think he has it backwards. There can be no social justice until military victory.

Posted by DoDo 2007-07-21 14:35|| 2007-07-21 14:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Islamists are threatening to turn Pakistan into a country occupied by Western troops?

Posted by Mad Eye Sponge 2007-07-21 15:11|| 2007-07-21 15:11|| Front Page Top

#6 5 Islamists are threatening to turn Pakistan into a country occupied by Western troops?
Posted by: Mad Eye Sponge 2007-07-21 15:11

We'd need about six more divisions to do that, plus a cooperative agreement with India to take over the eastern half. I'd also be willing to give India permission (if any were needed) to conquer Bangladesh and reabsorb it, before it, too, can become a failed muzlimb state. It WOULD solve the epidemic of fake passports, the J&K problem, the mad madrassa problem, and eliminate a large number of useless "imams". Make all the remaining muslims convert to a "peaceful" type of islamic faith, if there is one. I'm all for this.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-07-21 16:39|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-07-21 16:39|| Front Page Top

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