Posted on 10/10/2011 10:46:42 PM PDT by MBT ARJUN
ISLAMABAD: Recent developments on the eastern border have alarmed Pakistani policymakers and military officials, who are keenly observing India's preparations for a conventional war with Pakistan in the context of the Cold Start war doctrine, a Pakistani newspaper has said.
There has been a chain of developments, all tied to the overall scheme of things, which aims at destabilising its neighbour and building a formidable war machine to strike within the Pakistani borders, The News reports.
First, in the context of current events, is Afghan President Hamid Karzai's recent visit to New Delhi and the signing of a strategic accord with India at the heels of High Peace Council leader Burhanuddin Rabbani's assassination."While one side of the equation that has been brought into the spotlight shows that the accord will pave the way for India to train the Afghan armed forces and police, the other side that remains veiled could contain clauses that may affect Pakistan's internal and external security," the paper said.
"According to policymakers here in Islamabad, the accord requires careful thought at all levels. The critical point to remember is that India has no role whatsoever in Afghanistan yet Indian interference and policies are at the root of many of the problems that Pakistan is facing today," it added.
Secondly, the Indian army is holding a massive two-month long winter exercise- involving battle tanks and artillery guns besides Indian Air Force assets- at the Pakistan border, bringing a potent strike corps, the Bhopal based 21 Corps, in the Rajasthan desert, the paper said.
"Intriguingly, 'Sudarshan Chakra' Corps will be aiming to build its capacities for "breaching the hostile army's defences and capturing important strategic assets deep inside enemy territory." The exercise is the third of its kind this year... The question is: why is India holding three massive war games in a year at the Pakistan border that aim at capturing important strategic assets deep inside the enemy territory?" it added.
Third, a key development across the border has been the deployment of Su-30 fighter aircraft near the Pakistan border, the paper said, adding that the significance of the fact that the aircraft is the most sophisticated in the region and that it has been deployed along the Pakistan border at this crucial juncture is not lost on policymakers in Islamabad.
Two other related but under-reported events have been the extension of the runway at Kargil by India and its decision to acquire six more C-130J aircraft, the latest version of the intractable workhorse, reinforcing fears in Islamabad that New Delhi is preparing for a war that may engulf the whole region, the paper said.
In fact don't be surprised if Pakistan takes the first shot and purposefully invite Indian wrath. At this point things in Pakistan are bad, a lot of internal strife and divisions. The only way to unite them is to vent it against a larger foe.
To all Pakistanis that larger foe is India (and/or US) and the policy makers know it and will use to hide their own failings.
Put any date in the last 30 years on this headline, and I would have believed it.
I really, really really do not want to see war between the Pakistanis and Indians.
With the hatred there and the nuclear weapons ? Really bad news.
Let’s hope I’m foolishly wrong.
I’d like to see India conquer Pakistan and bring it to its knees. Pakistan is a miserable failed country and needs to be liberated from the prison of Islam.
A massive Indian assault on Pakistan terminating in the destruction of Pakistan.
Hmmm, is there a down side?
The last time the Pakkies took on the Indian Army they lost half their country.
Bangladesh 1971.
I’m no fan of cow worshipping but Hindu suicide bombers are practically unknown. Terribly bad karma and that sort of thing.
If they expelled 300,000,000 people, it'd be a disaster politically and every other way, *and* they'd have to fight all the Moo's to their west. Maybe they could, like a giant Hindu piston, drive them all the way across Baluchistan and Iran and Iraq and into Saudi -- an involuntary return to the Arabian desert and pilgrimage to the shrine cities, let the Saudis feed and house them.
But that doesn't sound workable. Just as likely would be a second partition of India, and then the Mooselimbs in what was left of India would be told by their muftis to go into progenerative overdrive and do it all over again.
It would be interesting to know if the mosques have been busy driving population increases among the Mooselimbs of India, if they've been running a demographic game on India below our radar. The Indian BJP (Hindu nationalists) seem to think so, someone or something packed a lot of curry up their noses about something even before the attacks started.
Lots, if the Wahhabists stay there (and see my last: 300,000,000 of them in India, too). Okay, you remove the state ..... the problem isn't the state, the state and the army have been a source of stability and reason (the civil service arising from the old British-trained civil service). The problem is the muftis and madrassas and the Wahhabist money from Saudi, and the channel locks they've now got clamped on a whole lot of people's heads. They've got their turbans torqued up good and tight. THAT is the problem.
Having the Indian army lay waste to the entire dismal affair hardly seems like a worse outcome than the status quo.
I don't think we're disagreeing. Salafist penetration of the government and the ISI has pretty well consigned the whole country, and the Abbottabad affair pretty much tied a ribbon around our impending hostilities, damn near guaranteed now.
Now ..... how to skin this cat? And how to keep the Chinese from effectively interfering? I think the Himalayas will be a big help, even though they've held the passes for 45 years in adverse possession; and if need be we can whip the PLA in the passes and valleys if they try to get into Afghanistan and Pakistan from the east.
We'll want to detach Baluchistan and run a supply line to Afghanistan through there ..... and if a couple of Paki burgs have to fall under the hammer, so be it; we can't have wild-eyed Wahhabists in our rear areas and threatening our supply lines and flanks. Bang, you're dead, maximum casualties, drive the population out. No more Mr. Nice Guy, they screwed us and were planning to screw us some more.
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