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		<title>Pakistan yawns at Obama&#8217;s drone speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 18:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mudeer Akhbar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama gave a long winded speech at the National Defence University where he tried to defend his actions on the cold blooded murder of four American citizens who were executed without a trail and without having proven guilty. He said that these four were working against the US and were enemy comabatants. This may [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Child-Safety-Sign-K-7437.gif"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Child-Safety-Sign-K-7437-300x203.gif" alt="OUr children are playing here. Please drive your drones carefully" width="300" height="203" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-46595" /></a>President Obama gave a long winded speech at the National Defence University where he tried to defend his actions on the cold blooded murder of four American citizens who were executed without a trail and without having proven guilty.</p>
<p><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/300px-Drones-HereComeTheLies.jpg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/300px-Drones-HereComeTheLies.jpg" alt="Drones and Lies" width="300" height="298" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46378" /></a>He said that these four were working against the US and were enemy comabatants. This may be true, but are we to take Obama&#8217;s word on who is an American patriot and who is now. As absurd as it may seem&#8211;but a future president to declare Mitt Romney a traitor and then have him killed by a drone while he was visiting a foreign land, or was enroute to Alaska.</p>
<p>Who is to decide who is guilty and who is not&#8211;without a trial.</p>
<p>Obama justifies drones as &#8220;just war&#8221; or self-defense. Absurd! &#8220;Just war&#8221;? Killing innocent civilians in FATA? Obama should check meaning of &#8220;Just War&#8221;. Shireen Mazari</p>
<p>&#8220;Obama limits use of Drones&#8221;. Even 1 drone is 1 too many! Illegal and immoral! Unacceptable! Shireen Mazari</p>
<p><div id="attachment_1233" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 158px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/predator-drones.jpg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/predator-drones.jpg" alt="The Zaradi Gilani duo gave the US permission to attack targets via drones. Now Gilani&#039;s son is a victim. Is he collateral damage?" width="148" height="138" class="size-full wp-image-1233" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Zaradi Gilani duo gave the US permission to attack targets via drones.<br />Now Gilani&#8217;s son is a victim. Is he collateral damage?</p></div>Pakistanis have been carefully watching the happening about the drones. Mr. Obama has moved the drone killing to the Defense Department under the Pentagon. Will this make a difference? Only time will tell. Fewer drone attacks simply means fewer murders.</p>
<p>&#8220;The murder of one human being is the murder of all humanity&#8221;. (Holy Quran). Fewer murders are still bad policy, creates anti-Americanism and are counter-productive. Drones create waves of violence against Pakistan.</p>
<p>Shireen Mazari said it best when she tweeted &#8220;Obama&#8217;s drone speech was an attempt to justify violations of international law, Pakistani sovereignty and killing of innocent civilians will not work.&#8221;</p>
<p>American drone murders whether carried out by the intelligence agency or the Pentagon are still drone murders. To Pakistanis and the world, it doesn&#8217;t make a difference. </p>
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		<title>Naxalbaris declare all out war on India</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 16:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mudeer Akhbar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Naxalbaris control 40% of the landmass of Bharat directing insurgencies in almost every state, especially in a red belt from Chittisgarh all the way up to the Nepali border. Today they attacked major figures of the Congress&#8211;Mahendra Karma and a former Congress MLA were killed, another leader V.C. Shukla injured in the attack; State [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_28927" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 275px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/indias-nuclear-armageddon.jpg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/indias-nuclear-armageddon-265x300.jpg" alt="Clear and present danger to the world: Indian Nukes reside in Naxal controlled country" width="265" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-28927" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Clear and present danger to the world: Indian Nukes reside in Naxal controlled country</p></div>The Naxalbaris control 40% of the landmass of Bharat directing insurgencies in almost every state, especially in a red belt from Chittisgarh all the way up to the Nepali border.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_1099" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 133px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/naxalite-land.jpg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/naxalite-land.jpg" alt="Indian insurgency map. Naxal map: The real failed state is &quot;India&quot;. Indian 2010: Cracks in &quot;India&quot; map.India cut down to size.Indian insurrection: Naxalte insurgency." width="123" height="92" class="size-full wp-image-1099" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Indian insurgency map. Naxal map: The real failed state is &#8220;India&#8221;. Indian 2010: Cracks in &#8220;India&#8221; map.India cut down to size.Indian insurrection: Naxalte insurgency.</p></div>Today they attacked major figures of the Congress&#8211;Mahendra Karma and a former Congress MLA were killed, another leader V.C. Shukla injured in the attack; State Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel and his son kidnapped, police say</p>
<p><div id="attachment_1099" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 133px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/naxalite-land.jpg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/naxalite-land.jpg" alt="Indian insurgency map. Naxal map: The real failed state is &quot;India&quot;. Indian 2010: Cracks in &quot;India&quot; map.India cut down to size.Indian insurrection: Naxalte insurgency." width="123" height="92" class="size-full wp-image-1099" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Indian insurgency map. Naxal map: The real failed state is &#8220;India&#8221;. Indian 2010: Cracks in &#8220;India&#8221; map.India cut down to size.Indian insurrection: Naxalte insurgency.</p></div>Carrying out a major attack, the Naxals on Saturday targeted a convoy of Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur district killing the party’s senior leader Mahendra Karma and injuring former Union Minister V.C. Shukla. </p>
<p><div id="attachment_1102" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/naxaliteland-a.jpg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/naxaliteland-a-300x174.jpg" alt="India&#039;s Naxalites insurgency and the Assamese &quot;Seven Sister&quot; states of the Northeast are in open rebellion" width="300" height="174" class="size-medium wp-image-1102" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">India&#8217;s Naxalites insurgency and the Assamese &#8220;Seven Sister&#8221; states of the Northeast are in open rebellion</p></div>The Naxals also kidnapped PCC chief Nand Kumar Patel and his son after attacking the Indian National Congress leaders at Darba Gati Valley in Jagdalpur district.</p>
<p>The Naxals recently had announced that they would take the war &#8220;Pan-India&#8221;. They have promised to plant their flag on Delhi in ten years.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Safi is wrong. TTP and Afghan Talibs are not the same&#8217;: Gen Hamid Gul</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 16:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mudeer Akhbar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalist Saleem Sali and his cohorts are spreading the false and malicious propaganda which seems to put the TTP and the Afghan Talibs in the same box. This is the point of view spread by Dawn and Geo and to some extent by ARY. Asma Shirazi, Najam Sethi, and Hamid Mir are the main players [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Journalist Saleem Sali and his cohorts are spreading the false and malicious propaganda which seems to put the TTP and the Afghan Talibs in the same box. This is the point of view spread by Dawn and Geo and to some extent by ARY. Asma Shirazi, Najam Sethi, and Hamid Mir are the main players that are spreading this falsehood.</p>
<p>The reason for spreading this nonsense is to put Pakistan on the path of perpetual mimetic warfare with the inevitable new power in Post-2014 Afghanistan&#8211;the Afghan Talibs. By obfuscating the differences between the Talibs and the TTP, the so called &#8220;progressive&#8221; forces want total war against the TTP and the Afghan Talibs.</p>
<div id="attachment_40527" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 276px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/images.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-40527" alt="General Aslam Beg has put together an organization called Difah e Pakistan which is a credible force to defend Pakistan. It is armed and dangerous" src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/images.jpeg" width="266" height="189" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">General Hamid Gul has put together an organization called Difah e Pakistan which is a credible force to defend Pakistan. It is armed and dangerous</p></div>
<p>While President Obama is talking about an &#8220;End to the War on Terror&#8221;, the Asma Shirazi types want Pakistan to get embroiled in the void left by ISAF-NATO-US Forces.</p>
<div id="attachment_971" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 269px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/indian-consulates-in-afghansitan-5.gif"><img class="size-medium wp-image-971" alt="Indian Consulates-supporting terror in Pakistan through TTP and the BLA" src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/indian-consulates-in-afghansitan-5-259x300.gif" width="259" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Indian Consulates-supporting terror in Pakistan through TTP and the BLA</p></div>
<p>Najam Sethi and has gang on Geo want the people to equate the TTP with the Afghan Talibs. By doing this, they want Pakistan to wage war, not only the TTP but also the Afghan Talibs.</p>
<p>The agenda of these so called pro-war leftists is to push Pakistan into a never-ending war with the Talibs.</p>
<div id="attachment_972" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 269px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/uzbek-movements-to-pak.gif"><img class="size-medium wp-image-972" alt="Bharati terrror to Pakistan from Afghanistan sent via TTP and BLA" src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/uzbek-movements-to-pak-259x300.gif" width="259" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bharati terrror to Pakistan from Afghanistan sent via TTP and BLA</p></div>
<p>The TTP is indirectly funded by the US, and India through Afghanistan&#8217;s secret agencies. After being kicked out of Swat, The TTP finds safe Havens in Kunar&#8211;right under the noses of ISAF and NATO. Karzai supports and funds the TTP to wage war on the Pakistani state. This is Karzai&#8217;s revenge for Pakistan&#8217;s support for the Talibs.</p>
<p>It should be very clear that Mr. Karzai spends millions of Dollars in supporting the TTP. Proof of this Karai policy can be seen in his clear threats to Pakistan. When the Pakistani government find Uzbeks, Tajiks and Afghans among the attackers, it does not assign them to Mr. Karzai&#8211;it simply ignores their affiliations.</p>
<p>Here is a current news story:</p>
<p>http://beta.dawn.com/news/1013727/explosives-seized-in-jamrud-three-suspects-arrested</p>
<p>KHYBER AGENCY: A Khasadar force (tribal militia) in Khyber Agency have foiled a plot after having seized 1750 kilograms of explosives from a pickup on the main Pak-Afghan Highway near Jamrud. Three accused individuals have been arrested.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_40507" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/hakimullah-mehsud-reported-dead-in-us-strike-1326640085-8485.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-40507" alt="This is Pakistan's Terrorist Number One. The &quot;TTP&quot; (Terrorists Targeting Pakistan) have been active since 2004. It has been 7 long years since this foreign funded organization has been playing a game of blood and gore. There are reports that the government is holding talks and there was relative peace in the land. Now this US strike may eliminate the relative calm" src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/hakimullah-mehsud-reported-dead-in-us-strike-1326640085-8485-300x225.jpg" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">This is Pakistan&#8217;s Terrorist Number One. The &#8220;TTP&#8221; (Terrorists Targeting Pakistan) have been active since 2004. It has been 7 long years since this foreign funded organization has been playing a game of blood and gore. There are reports that the government is holding talks and there was relative peace in the land. Now this US strike may eliminate the relative calm</p></div><br />
Mr. Karzai&#8217;s revenge on Pakistan presents clear and present danger to Islamabad and the citizens of Pakistan.</p>
<p>It takes hundreds of thousands of Dollars to buy the explosives that are used against Pakistan at Kamra, Mehran and other bases. How does the TTP get the funding to launch these very expensive attacks? How does the TTP afford to pay its mercenaries? All this funding comes from Mr. Karzia&#8217;s henchmen&#8211;trained directly by Delhi.</p>
<p>For each bomb that explodes in Kabul, a bomb explodes in Pakistan.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_977" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 114px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/tajik-2-herat.jpg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/tajik-2-herat.jpg" alt="Tajikistan map Indian bases-Indian Consulates-dens of Inequity send terror to Pakistan. Karzai provides safe havens to the TTP and funds them" width="104" height="104" class="size-full wp-image-977" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Tajikistan map Indian bases-Indian Consulates-dens of Inequity send terror to Pakistan. Karzai provides safe havens to the TTP and funds them</p></div>The drone bombs play an important role in creating disgruntled elements that are the recruiting ground for the TTP. The drones bomb the innocent&#8211;the victims join the TTP funded by the puppet Karzai whose henchmen are trained by Delhi.</p>
<p>Najam Sethi, Kamran Khan, Asma Shirazi, Saleem Shafi are busy hiding this truth.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Talibs Tet&#8217; rattle Karzai Kabul bunker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 05:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mudeer Akhbar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears that the Talibs continue their Spring Offensive in the fighting season in the summer. They are certainly testing the weak points. Next year they will be actually taking over parts of Kabul. The Vietcong&#8217;s Tet offensive was brutal and caused fatal damage to the South Vietnam and US forces.Has the Tet offensive begun? [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It appears that the Talibs continue their Spring Offensive in the fighting season in the summer. They are certainly testing the weak points. Next year they will be actually taking over parts of Kabul. The Vietcong&#8217;s Tet offensive was brutal and caused fatal damage to the South Vietnam and US forces.<div id="attachment_46751" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 262px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/karzai.jpeg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/karzai.jpeg" alt="There is a saying in Urdu, which roughly translated in Engliah says &quot;when an ant is nears its end, he grows wings&quot; (a reference to South Asia ants who grow wings right before they die) Mr. Hamid Karzai&#039;s trip to Delhi is reminiscent of Mr. Najibullah&#039;s historic trip to Delhi, when Mr. Najibullah signed several dozen key agreements with Bharat. A few weeks later Mr. Najibullah was found hanging at the end of a rope on a Kabul Traffic Circle." width="252" height="200" class="size-full wp-image-46751" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">There is a saying in Urdu, which roughly translated in Engliah says &#8220;when an ant is nears its end, he grows wings&#8221; (a reference to South Asia ants who grow wings right before they die) Mr. Hamid Karzai&#8217;s trip to Delhi is reminiscent of Mr. Najibullah&#8217;s historic trip to Delhi, when Mr. Najibullah signed several dozen key agreements with Bharat. A few weeks later Mr. Najibullah was found hanging at the end of a rope on a Kabul Traffic Circle.</p></div>Has the Tet offensive begun? Analysts say, this was a test to check the capabilities of the Karzai gang. It was a text-book case of what the military calls a “complex attack”. It took the Afghan National Army (ANA) the best part of the day (more than six hours) for hundreds of Afghan police officers to subdue no more than six attackers with suicide vests, guns and grenade launchers. </p>
<p>What would have happened if a hundred Talibs had attacked?</p>
<p>In January it took the ANA 9 hours to fend of a similar attack. In April 2012, another complex attack on Parliament in Kabul went on for 18 hours. In September 2011 it took 19 hours to clear insurgents near the US Embassy and NATO HQ. </p>
<p> “How could a fight prolong for so many hours, even though we have hundreds and hundreds of Afghan forces deployed?” asked Amrullah Aman, a retired Afghan general and a military analyst. “It means Afghan forces need better equipment, better training.” He also questioned how the attackers got so much ammunition, weaponry and explosives into the city center, which is a lattice of police checkpoints. </p>
<p> The compound that the insurgents attacked is close to the main facility of the United Nations in Kabul, as well as guesthouses and offices used by foreigners, a post of the Afghan Public Protection Force and a hospital for the national intelligence service. The Taliban themselves claimed that the building they invaded was a Central Intelligence Agency training center, according to the insurgents’ spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, who was reached by telephone. Police officials denied that was the case.</p>
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		<title>Pakistan &#8216;unfazed&#8217; by Karzai&#8217;s &#8216;wishlist&#8217;: Bharati press surprized!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bharati press is surprized that Pakistan is &#8220;outwardly&#8221; unfazed. It doesn&#8217;t care about the antics of the lame-duck Mayor of Kabul. Everyone remembers the last time an Afghan president signed all sorts of agreements with Delhi and returned to Kabul. After the defeat of the USSR, President Najibullah was trapped for a nervous few [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Bharati press is surprized that Pakistan is &#8220;outwardly&#8221; unfazed. It doesn&#8217;t care about the antics of the lame-duck Mayor of Kabul. </p>
<p><div id="attachment_46756" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 210px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Najibullah.jpeg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Najibullah.jpeg" alt="There is a saying in Urdu, which roughly translated in Engliah says &quot;when an ant is nears its end, he grows wings&quot; (a reference to South Asia ants who grow wings right before they die) Mr. Hamid Karzai&#039;s trip to Delhi is reminiscent of Mr. Najibullah&#039;s historic trip to Delhi, when Mr. Najibullah signed several dozen key agreements with Bharat. A few weeks later Mr. Najibullah was found hanging at the end of a rope on a Kabul Traffic Circle." width="200" height="152" class="size-full wp-image-46756" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">There is a saying in Urdu, which roughly translated in Engliah says &#8220;when an ant is nears its end, he grows wings&#8221; (a reference to South Asia ants who grow wings right before they die) Mr. Hamid Karzai&#8217;s trip to Delhi is reminiscent of Mr. Najibullah&#8217;s historic trip to Delhi, when Mr. Najibullah signed several dozen key agreements with Bharat. A few weeks later Mr. Najibullah was found hanging at the end of a rope on a Kabul Traffic Circle.</p></div>Everyone remembers the last time an Afghan president signed all sorts of agreements with Delhi and returned to Kabul. </p>
<p><div id="attachment_962" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 138px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/pakistan-including-afghanis.jpg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/pakistan-including-afghanis.jpg" alt="Afghanistan Pakistan union map-the only way to bring peace to West Asia. This is the vision of Pakistan. Ralph Peters and others are scared of the inevitable union of Pakistan and Afghanistan" width="128" height="135" class="size-full wp-image-962" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Afghanistan Pakistan union map-the only way to bring peace to West Asia. This is the vision of Pakistan. Ralph Peters and others are scared of the inevitable union of Pakistan and Afghanistan</p></div>After the defeat of the USSR, President Najibullah was trapped for a nervous few years in Kabul — blocked from joining his family in flight to India by the offices of former Soviet client and present-day American client Abdul Rashid Dostum.</p>
<p>After Kabul finally surrendered to the Taliban in 1996, the hated onetime Communist viceroy and Soviet puppet— whose stepping-stone to power was heading the hated and brutal Afghan secret police KHAD — had a serious problem.</p>
<p>Najibullah and his brother were publicly beaten, tortured and castrated, and strung up on a traffic barricade. Najibullah&#8217;s castrated parts where used as gags in his mouth.</p>
<p>The world knew that there was a new sheriff in town. Najibulllah was too late in taking the last flight out to Delhi.</p>
<p>A few weeks after signing all those agreements in Delhi Najibullah was found hanging at the Kabul traffic post with his testicles in his mouth. A similar fate awaits Karzai. </p>
<p>While Bharat pays a lot of attention to the Babrak Karmals, Najibullah&#8217;s and Karzai&#8217;s Islamabad knows that Mr. Karzai&#8217;s real reason for going to India was to search for an -in-exile-condo where he will be living for the rest of his life. It is more than obvious that Karzia can&#8217;t visit anyplace outside Kabul and in a few weeks he wont be able to live in Kabul. </p>
<p>Bharat can&#8217;t sell arms produced in third countries&#8211;so it cant send the artillery and choppers that Mr. Karzai wants. This is explained in the National. India produces little that could be sold to Mr. Karzai&#8211;outside of small arms that are made in Landi Kotal and Bara:</p>
<p>..retired Brig Rumel Dahiya, deputy director general, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, played down speculation that India would be a major military equipment supplier to Afghanistan.</p>
<p>“India imports most of its military equipment and there are obvious restrictions to third party sales,” Mr Dahiya said.</p>
<p>“What little India produces, that may have been asked to fill the gap that is needed for Afghanistan’s capacity-building and military shortages but it will not be to empower a fight with Pakistan.” (Ref: The National).</p>
<p>On Bharati Consulates: Whatever the number&#8211;it is obvious that Bharat supports the terror network to spread terror inside Pakistan. Living proof? The honor guard given to the body of the terrorists Sarabjit Singh and the revelations about him dug out by the Bharati media (RAW connections)!</p>
<p>A picture is worth a thousand words</p>
<p>Wishlist? Oh yeah I forgot to add this link. </p>
<p>http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/09/27/1996-dr-mohammad-najibullah/</p>
<p>Mr. Karzai: Move into the Mumbai apartment as soon as possible. Flights from Kabul to Delhi are unrelaible and known to get canceled</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Batie&#8217;: &#8216;If you love China, love Pakistan too&#8217; Li</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 19:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Batie&#8217;: Effusive praise for Pakistan China friendship Premier Li told us that the Internet is calling Pakistan &#8220;Iron Pak&#8221; and &#8220;Iron brother&#8221;. Pakistan is also being called &#8220;faith Pal&#8221; or in Chinese &#8220;Batie&#8221;. The Chinese press reports that &#8220;In China, there are popular online words and expressions such as &#8220;batie&#8221; (meaning faithful pals) and &#8216;If [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;Batie&#8217;: Effusive praise for Pakistan China friendship</p>
<p><div id="attachment_46962" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Pak-china-469x213.jpg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Pak-china-469x213-300x136.jpg" alt="Premier Li call Pakistan &quot;Iron Pakistan&quot; and called the friendship &quot;Iron friendship&quot;" width="300" height="136" class="size-medium wp-image-46962" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Premier Li call Pakistan &#8220;Iron Pakistan&#8221; and called the friendship &#8220;Iron friendship&#8221;</p></div>Premier Li told us that the Internet is calling Pakistan &#8220;Iron Pak&#8221; and &#8220;Iron brother&#8221;. Pakistan is also being called &#8220;faith Pal&#8221; or in Chinese &#8220;Batie&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Chinese press reports that &#8220;In China, there are popular online words and expressions such as &#8220;batie&#8221; (meaning faithful pals) and &#8216;If you love China, please love Pakistan as well.&#8217;</p>
<p>These words bring joyful tears to most Pakistanis.</p>
<p>The official Chinese press reported the warm welcome accorded to Premier Li.</p>
<p>The China Daily reported:</p>
<p>&#8220;The past two days in Pakistan were scorching hot, with temperatures above 40 C, but what is even warmer is the China-Pakistan relationship, with the arrival of the Chinese delegation led by Premier Li Keqiang in the South Asian nation.&#8221;</p>
<p>http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2013-05/24/content_16526874.htm</p>
<p>If further said:</p>
<p>Along the road from the airport to the Islamabad Serena Hotel, where the Chinese delegation was staying, and also in the urban area, about every five meters were billboards that had pictures of Li and Zardari, and slogans describing the friendship between China and Pakistan. Some of them said: &#8220;Long live Pakistan-China friendship&#8221;, &#8220;Pakistan and China are good friends, good brothers, good neighbors and good partners&#8221;, and &#8220;Salute to the great Chinese friends!&#8221; </p>
<p>The Xinhua shows comraderie between the Chinese and the Pakistanis&#8211;not really available on other media.</p>
<p>http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2013-05-24/010727208730.shtml</p>
<p>Such elaborate arrangements deeply impressed the Chinese premier. &#8220;I saw a lot of slogans on the way to the hotel. I remember one of them was &#8216;Good neighbors is our blessing&#8217;. China and Pakistan are good neighbors, and our friendship is a blessing to both people and also to the benefit of Asia and the whole world,&#8221; Li said during the joint media briefing together with Zardari after the bilateral official meeting on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The China Press also reported:</p>
<p>&#8220;He was continually interrupted during the speech, as the audience and Pakistani senators applauded 12 times through the traditional way of patting the table with their right hands.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you liked the article thank dingqingfen@chinadaily.com.cn</p>
<p>The China Daily said:</p>
<p>&#8220;The China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement was the first bilateral FTA China signed with a foreign country. It took effect at the start of 2007. </p>
<p>Under the agreement, the two sides undertook to cut tariffs to zero for 38 percent of their goods trade by 2010, with zero-tariff products to be expanded to 90 percent of the total by 2015. </p>
<p>Wang Xu, assistant director of the Center of South Asian Studies at Peking University, said the FTA has been carried out smoothly and has played an important role in boosting trade.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Karzai leaves India empty handed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 02:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Nahin&#8217;: Karzai returns empty-handed from Delhi with tail between his legs, and no arms. Morever he has now used up his &#8220;India Card&#8221;. As he flies over Pakistani airspace, he will realize the fact that he can no longer threaten Pakistan with going to Bharat. When he reaches reality he will realize that his wild [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;Nahin&#8217;: Karzai returns empty-handed from Delhi with tail between his legs, and no arms. Morever he has now used up his &#8220;India Card&#8221;. As he flies over Pakistani airspace, he will realize the fact that he can no longer threaten Pakistan with going to Bharat. When he reaches reality he will realize that his wild expectations from Bharat were silly. The arms that he asked India for are not made by Bharat. Delhi would have had to buy the arms and give them to Kabul, or not sell them and gift them away to Karzai. Delhi didn&#8217;t want to give them to Karzai&#8211;especially since they are likely to fall into the &#8220;wrong&#8221; hands anyway.</p>
<p>Mr. Karzai has no power or standing in the future of Afghanistan. The US, Europe, and Russia are not selling arms to Krzai&#8211;and wont allow 3rd party sales from Bharat!</p>
<p>This is explained in the National. India produces little that could be sold to Mr. Karzai&#8211;outside of small arms that are made in Lndi Kotal and Bara:</p>
<p>..retired Brig Rumel Dahiya, deputy director general, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, played down speculation that India would be a major military equipment supplier to Afghanistan.</p>
<p>“India imports most of its military equipment and there are obvious restrictions to third party sales,” Mr Dahiya said.</p>
<p>“What little India produces, that may have been asked to fill the gap that is needed for Afghanistan’s capacity-building and military shortages but it will not be to empower a fight with Pakistan.” (Ref: The National).</p>
<p>Mr. Karzai now returns to Kabul empty-handed. He will now begin facing the ground reality. He will again remember that he has a &#8220;twin brother&#8221;! He will have to revisit his tone. Pakistan should work with Iran and Turkey right now, and let him twist in the wind a bit, and not invite him to Islamabad.   </p>
<p>Delhi Wisely says &#8216;No&#8217; to Karzai&#8217;s arms wish-list</p>
<p><div id="attachment_46753" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 272px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Najeebullah.jpeg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Najeebullah.jpeg" alt="There is a saying in Urdu, which roughly translated in Engliah says &quot;when an ant is nears its end, he grows wings&quot; (a reference to South Asia ants who grow wings right before they die) Mr. Hamid Karzai&#039;s trip to Delhi is reminiscent of Mr. Najibullah&#039;s historic trip to Delhi, when Mr. Najibullah signed several dozen key agreements with Bharat. A few weeks later Mr. Najibullah was found hanging at the end of a rope on a Kabul Traffic Circle." width="262" height="193" class="size-full wp-image-46753" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">There is a saying in Urdu, which roughly translated in Engliah says &#8220;when an ant is nears its end, he grows wings&#8221; (a reference to South Asia ants who grow wings right before they die) Mr. Hamid Karzai&#8217;s trip to Delhi is reminiscent of Mr. Najibullah&#8217;s historic trip to Delhi, when Mr. Najibullah signed several dozen key agreements with Bharat. A few weeks later Mr. Najibullah was found hanging at the end of a rope on a Kabul Traffic Circle.</p></div>As predicted by Rupee News, Mr. Karzai stupidity in playing the &#8220;Bharat Card&#8221; has led to him being totally exposed now. The &#8216;Mayor of Kabul&#8217; has no new cards to play. Delhi is not stupid in walking into a quagmire which would expose it to the militarism that exists in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Delhi is ready to &#8216;help&#8217; Afghanistan&#8211;but not ready to assist Mr. Karzai personally. Delhi has learned the hard lesson from the 80s when it signed tons of agreements with Mr. Najibullah, and found itself in the wrong side of history&#8211;being shut out of Afghanistan and was shunted out of Kabul bag and baggage. Bharatis have not been able to return to Kabul since then, and the Indian presence in the bazaars of Qandhar and Herat is gone forever.</p>
<p>Mr. Karzai has been told in clear terms that Delhi is unable to fill Mr. Karzai&#8217;s wishlist. Sending arms to Mr. Karzai would not go well with Washington and would not serve Delhi&#8217; interests. Mr. Karzai in a fit of rage went to Bharat to teach Pakistan a lesson. He now returns to Kabul with his tail between his legs.</p>
<p>Squeemishly he admitted &#8220;We have a wishlist that we have presented to India. Now it is upto them to decide&#8221; after talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and president Pranab Mukherjee. </p>
<p>Karzai said &#8220;We discussed the scope for broadening of cooperation in all walks of life—economic upliftment of the Afghan people, education to the Afghan youth and of course within the means of India, equipment for Afghan forces.&#8221; &#8220;Means of India&#8221; is a new term that has been introduced in the Afghan-Bharat relationship. &#8220;Limited Means of India&#8221; means that assisting Mr. Karzai with artillery guns is outside Bharat&#8217;s means.</p>
<p>Even though the Indo-Afghan agreement says India will assist with the &#8220;training, equipping and capacity building&#8221; for Afghan National Security Forces&#8211;it does not mean that India &#8220;shall&#8221; assist Mr. Karzai with arms, choppers and planes.</p>
<p>Karzai said he understands India&#8217;s geostrategic considerations of not providing him with arms.<br />
&#8220;We understand where India can help and where India cannot help and we respect that.&#8221;</p>
<p>As a consolation prize External affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin&#8221;&#8230; It was agreed that India and Afghanistan will work together and will do all within their means to promote stability and security in Afghanistan.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>China to &#8216;step up&#8217; building pipeline, railroads, roads linking countries&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 19:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We want to achieve dynamic balance in our trade.&#8221; Prime Minister Li said in an address to the Senate. &#8220;We are ready to work with Pakistan to speed up the project of upgrading the Karakoram Highway, actively explore and develop the long-term plans of building a China-Pakistan economic corridor, expanding our shared interests.&#8221; Premier Li [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_46969" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/outline-oil-transit-may-2013-updated.jpeg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/outline-oil-transit-may-2013-updated-300x209.jpeg" alt="Maldives is located strategically near major sea lanes. More than 80 percent of the world’s seaborne trade in oil passes through Indian Ocean chokepoints, with 40 percent going through the Persian Gulf’s Strait of Hormuz, 35 percent through the Strait of Malacca and 8 percent through the Bab el-Mandab Strait, at the base of the Red Sea. Maldives and the percentages of the world oil shipment through the Indian Ocean “chokepoints” Naval and air operations from Maldives could potentially threaten countries that depend on these sea lanes for energy supplies and raw materials. China, with its vast demand for oil and minerals from the Middle East and Africa, is the most obvious target." width="300" height="209" class="size-medium wp-image-46969" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Maldives is located strategically near major sea lanes. More than 80 percent of the world’s seaborne trade in oil passes through Indian Ocean chokepoints, with 40 percent going through the Persian Gulf’s Strait of Hormuz, 35 percent through the Strait of Malacca and 8 percent through the Bab el-Mandab Strait, at the base of the Red Sea.<br />Maldives and the percentages of the world oil shipment through the Indian Ocean “chokepoints”<br />Naval and air operations from Maldives could potentially threaten countries that depend on these sea lanes for energy supplies and raw materials. China, with its vast demand for oil and minerals from the Middle East and Africa, is the most obvious target.</p></div>&#8220;We want to achieve dynamic balance in our trade.&#8221; Prime Minister Li said in an address to the Senate.</p>
<p><div id="attachment_46874" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Asian-Ocean-Bases.jpg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Asian-Ocean-Bases-300x238.jpg" alt="Pakistan needs to build bases around the Asia Ocean (fka as Indian Ocean)" width="300" height="238" class="size-medium wp-image-46874" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Pakistan needs to build bases around the Asia Ocean (fka as Indian Ocean)</p></div> &#8220;We are ready to work with Pakistan to speed up the project of upgrading the Karakoram Highway, actively explore and develop the long-term plans of building a China-Pakistan economic corridor, expanding our shared interests.&#8221; Premier Li</p>
<p>Li wants to build financial, maritime, agricultural, defence and energy cooperation, and praised Pakistan for its &#8220;tenacity and fortitude&#8221; and &#8220;creating one miracle after another&#8221;.</p>
<p><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/300px-Wakhan5.jpg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/300px-Wakhan5.jpg" alt="Wakhan Corridor" width="300" height="175" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46349" /></a>China to “step up” its cooperation with Pakistan by “building the oil pipeline and railroads linking the countries.” South Asia scholar Wang Dehua, at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies writing for the Global Times, a Communist Party-run newspaper known for its nationalistic views, on Thursday.</p>
<p>In 2012, China and Pakistan completed a pre-feasibility study for a railway line linking Kashgar, in Xinjiang, to Havelian, running through the Khunjerab Pass and Gilgit-Baltistan.</p>
<p>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei brushed aside Bharati rhetoric saying that “China’s position on the Kashmir issue is clear and consistent”&#8230;We hope India and Pakistan can solve the relevant issue through dialogue.”</p>
<p>The Global Times, the semi-official newspaper told India that Delhi “must accept and adapt” to the friendship between China and Pakistan as China “cannot scale down this relationship” to address Delhi&#8217;s concerns.</p>
<p>“India has long been sensitive to the Sino-Pakistan relationship, even suspecting that China secretly helped Pakistan master nuclear technology. These suspicions are groundless but cannot easily be dispelled,”</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Per tradition, Mr Sharif’s will visit Saudi Arabia as the first foreign trip&#8211;soon after assuming the office. With proverbial magnanimity the Saudis will be assisting the new government of Pakistan with a massive $15 billion package. If the circular debt is cleared within the next few weeks, it would dramatically reduce load-shedding enabling the new [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Saudi-Pakistan.jpeg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Saudi-Pakistan.jpeg" alt="Saudi Pakistan cooperation" width="225" height="225" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46973" /></a>Per tradition, Mr Sharif’s will visit Saudi Arabia as the first foreign trip&#8211;soon after assuming the office.</p>
<p>With proverbial magnanimity the Saudis will be assisting the new government of Pakistan with a massive $15 billion package. If the circular debt is cleared within the next few weeks, it would dramatically reduce load-shedding enabling the new government to jump start the economy, and increasing the shelf life of the Nawaz government beyond the two years it is expected to last.</p>
<p>All doomsday scenarios spread by GEO and ARY have come to naught. The bailout package from Saudi will also be supplemented with aid from the UAE and possibly Qatar also.</p>
<p>It seems that the new government may not be going to the IMF, and even if it goes there it will be for a short time and with very limited requests. A limited request to the IMF would not bring the draconian regulations on deficits and subsidies which are part of the IMF package.</p>
<p>A few years a similar deal by Saudi Arabia was carefully directed to a US sponsored group called Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FODP). As noted by the enemies of Pakistan at the time, FDOP was a FLOP because the Western powers had neither the intention, nor the desire to help out Pakistan. Initially Saudi Arabia and the UAE did not even join the group. Saudi Aid was given to Pakistan under different guises. During the PPP era, all Arab aid stopped, and US aid came in at a trickle.</p>
<p>Riyadh is expected to extend a bailout package of about $15 billion to Pakistan by supplying crude and furnace oil on deferred payment. This will kill the chronic circular debt.</p>
<p>A similar special grant of $3.5 Billion was given to Pakistan after Pakistan went nuclear in 1998 and faced international economic sanctions. In fact the nuclear explosions were conducted expecting the sanctions, and the Nawaz Sharif government had prior approval from the Saudi royals.</p>
<p>The Saudis initiated the offer as soon as the PML-N emerged as the majority party. The Saudi ambassador in Islamabad sought a briefing on the country’s oil requirements from the foreign ministry and then called on PM-elect Nawaz Sharif in Raiwind, Lahore. It appears the PMLN had already done its homework. Nawaz Sharif already had a position paper which was handed to the Saudi Ambassador.</p>
<p>The PMLN Paper outlined a request of 100,000 barrels of crude oil and about 15,000 tons of furnace oil per day from Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>The Saudi facility will be utilised to reduce loadshedding in the short term by eliminating the Circular debt. It will provide the new government to restructure the power sector by minimising subsidies, ensuring recovery of funds from the public sector and reducing system losses.</p>
<p>The breathing space provided by the likely Saudi package could also be used for re-negotiating gas price with Iran for the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline.</p>
<p>The PMLN will use the space to “develop hydropower projects through a combination of public and private investments and bagasse-based power production by the sugar industry.” The sugar mills can provide about 1000&#8211;4000 MW of electricity.</p>
<p>Pakistan’s total crude oil import is about  and  Its total oil import bill stands at about $15bn per annum.</p>
<p>The official said a request for 100,000 barrels (out of total requirement of 400,000 barrels per day) of oil and 15,000 tons per day (out of total requirement of 30,000 tons) of furnace oil had already been passed on through the Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Joint Ministerial Commission.</p>
<p>The Saudi rulers were not taking any interest in the issue earlier ostensibly because of the chill in their relationship with the PPP government&#8211;because of the diplomatic relations with Iran (which weren&#8217;t really real) and the UAE and cancellation of hunting facilities for Saudi royals had also annoyed the kingdom.</p>
<p>The only possible string to the deal will be an exit plan for Pervez Musharraf.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Nahin&#8217;: Delhi&#8217;s wise answer to Karzai&#8217;s arms wishlist</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delhi Wisely says &#8216;No&#8217; to Karzai&#8217;s arms wishlist &#8216;Nahin&#8217;: Karzai returns empty-handed from Delhi with tail between his legs, and no arms As predicted by Rupee News, Mr. Karzai stupidity in playing the &#8220;Bharat Card&#8221; has led to him being totally exposed now. The &#8216;Mayor of Kabul&#8217; has no new cards to play. Delhi is [...]]]></description>
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<p>&#8216;Nahin&#8217;: Karzai returns empty-handed from Delhi with tail between his legs, and no arms</p>
<p><div id="attachment_46753" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 272px"><a href="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Najeebullah.jpeg"><img src="http://rupeenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Najeebullah.jpeg" alt="There is a saying in Urdu, which roughly translated in Engliah says &quot;when an ant is nears its end, he grows wings&quot; (a reference to South Asia ants who grow wings right before they die) Mr. Hamid Karzai&#039;s trip to Delhi is reminiscent of Mr. Najibullah&#039;s historic trip to Delhi, when Mr. Najibullah signed several dozen key agreements with Bharat. A few weeks later Mr. Najibullah was found hanging at the end of a rope on a Kabul Traffic Circle." width="262" height="193" class="size-full wp-image-46753" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">There is a saying in Urdu, which roughly translated in Engliah says &#8220;when an ant is nears its end, he grows wings&#8221; (a reference to South Asia ants who grow wings right before they die) Mr. Hamid Karzai&#8217;s trip to Delhi is reminiscent of Mr. Najibullah&#8217;s historic trip to Delhi, when Mr. Najibullah signed several dozen key agreements with Bharat. A few weeks later Mr. Najibullah was found hanging at the end of a rope on a Kabul Traffic Circle.</p></div>As predicted by Rupee News, Mr. Karzai stupidity in playing the &#8220;Bharat Card&#8221; has led to him being totally exposed now. The &#8216;Mayor of Kabul&#8217; has no new cards to play. Delhi is not stupid in walking into a quagmire which would expose it to the militarism that exists in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Delhi is ready to &#8216;help&#8217; Afghanistan&#8211;but not ready to assist Mr. Karzai personally. Delhi has learned the hard lesson from the 80s when it signed tons of agreements with Mr. Najibullah, and found itself in the wrong side of history&#8211;being shut out of Afghanistan and was shunted out of Kabul bag and baggage. Bharatis have not been able to return to Kabul since then, and the Indian presence in the bazaars of Qandhar and Herat is gone forever.</p>
<p>Mr. Karzai has been told in clear terms that Delhi is unable to fill Mr. Karzai&#8217;s wishlist. Sending arms to Mr. Karzai would not go well with Washington and would not serve Delhi&#8217; interests. Mr. Karzai in a fit of rage went to Bharat to teach Pakistan a lesson. He now returns to Kabul with his tail between his legs.</p>
<p>Squeemishly he admitted &#8220;We have a wishlist that we have presented to India. Now it is upto them to decide&#8221; after talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and president Pranab Mukherjee. </p>
<p>Karzai said &#8220;We discussed the scope for broadening of cooperation in all walks of life—economic upliftment of the Afghan people, education to the Afghan youth and of course within the means of India, equipment for Afghan forces.&#8221; &#8220;Means of India&#8221; is a new term that has been introduced in the Afghan-Bharat relationship. &#8220;Limited Means of India&#8221; means that assisting Mr. Karzai with artillery guns is outside Bharat&#8217;s means.</p>
<p>Even though the Indo-Afghan agreement says India will assist with the &#8220;training, equipping and capacity building&#8221; for Afghan National Security Forces&#8211;it does not mean that India &#8220;shall&#8221; assist Mr. Karzai with arms, choppers and planes.</p>
<p>Karzai said he understands India&#8217;s geostrategic considerations of not providing him with arms.<br />
&#8220;We understand where India can help and where India cannot help and we respect that.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr. Karzia is plainly stupid. Even if it wanted to Bharat could not sell the equipment which it imported. Obviously the US and EU countries are not selling the arms to Mr. Karia&#8211;India even if it wanted to could not sell Howitzers to Afghanistan without the permission of London and Washington.</p>
<p>This is explained in the National. India produces little that could be sold to Mr. Karzai&#8211;outside of small arms that are made in Lndi Kotal and Bara:</p>
<p>..retired Brig Rumel Dahiya, deputy director general, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, played down speculation that India would be a major military equipment supplier to Afghanistan.</p>
<p>“India imports most of its military equipment and there are obvious restrictions to third party sales,” Mr Dahiya said.</p>
<p>“What little India produces, that may have been asked to fill the gap that is needed for Afghanistan’s capacity-building and military shortages but it will not be to empower a fight with Pakistan.” (Ref: The National).</p>
<p>As a consolation prize External affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin&#8221;&#8230; It was agreed that India and Afghanistan will work together and will do all within their means to promote stability and security in Afghanistan.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr. Karzai now returns to Kabul empty-handed. He will now begin facing the ground reality. He will again remember that he has a &#8220;twin brother&#8221;! He will have to revisit his tone. Pakistan should work with Iran and Turkey right now, and let him twist in the wind a bit, and not invite him to Islamabad.   </p>
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