Posted on 10/22/2001 10:51:21 AM PDT by American_Patriot_For_Democracy
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - President Pervez Musharraf on Monday threatened to teach arch-rival India a lesson if it attacked across their disputed border in Kashmir (news - web sites).
In an interview with state-run Pakistan Television, he said
Indian leaders not to hurl threats of attacks across the military Line of Control in the disputed Himalayan region and follow the path of dialogue to settle the Kashmir dispute.
Musharraf said Pakistan would not let India take a military advantage in Kashmir from of the current Afghan crisis, and added: ``Armed forces are fully prepared, not only defensively but we will teach them a lesson if at all they try to do anything.''
11/22/1979
Pakistan
U.S. Embassy Attacked
The U.S. embassy in Islamabad was attacked and burned by Islamic militants following rumors that the U.S. was involved in the violent takeover of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Pakistan-Forces-Red
Alert /WRD/
Pak armed forces put on red alert along international border
Islamabad, Oct 22, IRNA -- After credible about [sic]mobilization of Indian troops along the international border, Pakistan on Sunday put its armed forces on red alert, reported a local daily on Monday.
`The Frontier Post' in its issue Monday said that Pakistan has already apprised the U.S. of the situation.
"We are taking other friendly nations into confidence and telling them also that New Delhi will be solely responsible for any untoward development arising out of the unusual concentration of Indian troops along the Pak border," it quoted a senior official.
He said that Pakistani forces were fully alert and prepared to thwart any misadventure.
Military sources confirmed, the paper noted, that necessary steps had already been taken to give a befitting reply to any Indian attempt along the international border, particularly at Sialkot sector and Wahga border.
The two countries have been through Three Wars, all of them were based on the conflict of the Muslim religion against Indian multiculturalism. The most violent outbreaks came in 1947–48, 1965, and 1971. The roots of the conflicts lay in the hostility of Pakistani Muslims against secular and religiously and racially diverse, and democratic India. And initially, in the disposition of self-governing princely states.
The 1947–48 War
The first war arose over Kashmir, in Northwest India, in 1947 when Muslim rebels attacked Kashmiri Hindus (in the majority) and were supported by Pakistani troops. The Hindu ruler of Kashmir pleaded with India for support and aid, agreeing to cede the state to India in return. India moved quickly to consolidate its position in Kashmir, pushing Pakistan’s terrorist “volunteers” back. Conflicts also arose in the Punjab and in Bengal. The un-declared war in Kashmir continued until Jan. 1, 1949, when a truce was arranged through UN mediation; negotiations between India and Pakistan began and lasted until 1954 without resolving the Kashmir problem. Pakistan controlled part of the area, while India held most of the territory.
The 1965 War
The second war began in April 1965, when fighting broke out in the Rann of Kachchh, a sparsely inhabited region along the West Pakistan–India border, when Pakistani troops attacked Indian Hindu civilians and farmers in a violent bid to acquire the rich arable farmlands in the region. In August fighting spread to Kashmir and to the Punjab, and in September Pakistani and Indian troops crossed the partition line between the two countries and launched air assaults on each other’s cities. After threats of intervention by China had been successfully opposed by the United States and Britain, Pakistan and India agreed to a UN-sponsored cease-fire and withdrew to the pre-August lines, with Pakistan being forced to disgorge their recently and violently acquired new territories. Prime Minister Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri of India and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan met in Tashkent, USSR (now Toshkent, Uzbekistan), in Jan., 1966, and signed an agreement pledging continued negotiations and respect for the cease-fire conditions. After the Tashkent Declaration another period of relative peace ensued, until Pakistan attacked India again, in 1971.
The 1971 War
Indo-Pakistani relations deteriorated when civil war erupted in Pakistan, pitting the West Pakistan army against East Pakistanis demanding greater autonomy. The fighting forced 10 million East Pakistani Bengalis to flee to India, who welcomed the refugees into their own burgeoning multi-cultural and multi-religious democracy. When Pakistan abruptly attacked Indian airfields in Kashmir, India retaliated and attacked both East and West Pakistan. India occupied the eastern half, which declared its independence as Bangladesh, on Dec. 6, 1971. Under great-power pressure, a UN cease-fire was arranged in mid-December, after Pakistan’s sound defeat. Pakistan lost its entire eastern half, an army of 100,000 soldiers, and was thrown into political turmoil. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto emerged as the leader of Pakistan, and Mujibur Rahman as prime minister of Bangladesh. Tensions were alleviated by the Shimla accord of 1972, and by Pakistan’s reluctant recognition of Bangladesh in 1974, but tensions have periodically recurred, due in substantial part to Pakistan's unrelenting desire to conquer and destabilize India, and to acquire the much contested area of Kashmir.
Pak - India war would be great to watch as it may turn out to be a nuclear war. I think Pak will lose this war diplomatically as we all know Ismalic terrorists have always been supported and promoted by Pakistan. There is a little hope of anyone supporting Pakistan for its dual standards. Militarywise time will tell the story.
I heard Israel and Palestine are now fully engaged in the war like situation. US-Afghanistan,US-IRAQ, Israel-Palestine and Pak-India....boy it's going to be a bloody war.
Well said Mr. President "War will be fought on all front and may take couple of years but the justice will be delivered".
We get blamed for everything, don't we?
Now why the heck would we want the Grand Mosque?
Pete, Ken5050: Some links for English India newspapers are:
Greater Kashmire OnlineEdition has interview on the possibility of nuclear war in this area.
Enough of bloodshed, it’s time for solution, pleads Javed Mir GK News Service
From article, Javed: "Kashmir is a 53-year old issue. Even India admits its complexity. It has the potential to trigger a nuke war between India and Pakistan which will engulf the whole of South Asia. Its solution cannot be avoided for long".
I don't think there is any doubting the bitter animosity between India and Pakistan. They truly to hate each other's guts.
But the fact that both of them have nukes may keep the lid on this thing. They both know that even if they launch first, they're likely to lose one of their major cities before it's over. That's beyond suffering the international fallout from use of nukes.
They may scream and shout a lot, but I don't think either side is willing to launch the first nuke.
India will attack Pakistan: Farooq "negotiation era has ended"
Pakistan is little better. When a non-Islamic government comes to power, it is generally corrupt (Benazir Bhutto etc), or else a military junta (the current lot). Either system still has to deal with incompetent, corrupt and overbearing bureacracy. So far there has't been a radical Islamic government, but it's only a question of time.
The only thing to be said for either country is that they play cricket.
Own Drummer
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