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| Technomania |
Posted
on 03-Jan-02 11:51 AM
How will Nepal be affected if india and pakistan decide to go to war? They are bosth stupid
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| krishna |
Posted
on 03-Jan-02 12:12 PM
imo, it depends on whether china backs pakistan and whether nukes are used. last summer i bought eric margolis' book "war at the top of the world", which i feel surmises the sitch and what-ifs fairly well. the three main geographical foci in his work are afghanistan, kashmir, and tibet. nepal receives honorable mention a couple of times.
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| Trailokya Aryal |
Posted
on 03-Jan-02 12:54 PM
Dear,
There won't be any war between India and Pakistan. And here's why:
1. If India and Pak decide to go for a full-fledged war the Pak troops from Afghan-Pakistan borders have to be moved to India-Pak border. This will be going directly agianst the US interests. And Bush, Powell, Rumsfield all are urging the leaders to exercise maximum restraint.
2. India has toned down. Pakistanis have showed their willingness to talk and chancees are there might be an informal meeting between Abdul Sattar and Jaswant Singh in Kathmandu. "Nothing can be ruled in or ruled out in KTM" says one Indian daily. And there's a chance that even Bajpayee and Musharraf holding informal meeting(s).
3. Pakistan has arrested quite a few Islamic "fundamentalists" who are believed to be engaged in "anti_india" activbities. This is being seen by the Indian governmnet as a "step forward" in resolving the present crisis.
4. Pakistani Presidednt Mr Musharraf dekliberately avoided the Indian airspace to reach kathmandu. Quoting the Pakistani daily, Jang, Indian newspapers write that Mr Musharraf who just returned from China a few days ago, will be in China before arriving Kathmandu and will hold talks with the Chinese PM Zhu Rongji and this is all being done to "send signals" to India.
5. India is well-aware of the fact that a coalition between China-Pakisrtan is very likely inc ase of a full-fledged war, and that the US won't come to it's rescue, so the vajpayee cabinet has decided to send the leaders of opposition parties to other coubntries to and put forward India's concecerns-- all to put diplomatic pressure on Pakistan.
6. There was a high level meting in India in which the union defense minister Mr george Fernandes was not invited. Please note that it is he who is advocating war.
So, be assured there won't be any war at this moment but border skirmishes are likely. And what are we supposed to do in case of a war? Well, both are our neighbors, so it will be in our best interest to stay neutral.
Trailokya
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| NK |
Posted
on 03-Jan-02 02:05 PM
no,no,no, trailokya let's side with pakistan now. With China's backing and their nuclear heads or whatever they have managed to steal from the US we will squash India like a bug. In the mean time let's hope US does not jump in to help their of again - on again friend India. After trampling India, let's make a beeeeeg coalition for nation building of India. Bush is really into this thing called nation building right now ,which he derided Gore for eons ago in that infamous "debate." so he surely will help us.
What do we get out of this or hope to get? India will forever fear Nepal and be grateful at the same time. They will not dare to build another dam near Lumbini, or take kalapani, and all other atrocities it perpetuates regularly. Let's go to talk to Musharaf, anybody????
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| ST |
Posted
on 03-Jan-02 04:00 PM
Wishful thinking.
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| NK |
Posted
on 03-Jan-02 04:20 PM
oh, come on ST, have some faith, will you?
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| ST |
Posted
on 03-Jan-02 04:26 PM
The way I see it, all this could lead to an interesting, yet ominous stalemate in the region. Pakistan is literally torn between its past and the recent commitment it has shown by siding the international community in an effort to rout terrorism altogether. United States is in a deadlock- by siding India it'll do justice to the cause it has been trying to champion for the last 4 months but that'll mean bushwhacking a recently acquired ally. If it continues to support Pakistan, which it might be inclined to do given the current scenario, it'll be exposing its hypocritical foreign policy of the Cold War era- only this time it'll be more blatant.
In sum, by grabbing Pakistan by the balls India has challenged the United States.
It'll be interesting to see how China reacts.
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