does it mean war or more inflitration or more dramatic attacks?
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_16-12-2002_pg1_4
Did Mush tell him to make this statement?
What does a Baloch care about India?
apart from the 'patience' joke, he wants us to take his 'setup' as a 'civilian' setup? some setup alright! Why the sudden interest i stalks? these guys are getting increasing shrill probably out of desperation after seeing how the Kashmir elections demonstrated the will of the people - no longer can pakistan anything about Kashmir!
I hope his patience is begger then vajoo :)
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I hope his patience is begger then vajoo :)
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is that any way to talk about your 'elected' leader?
i gotta admire this dude Jamali. he is 'elected', he answers to musharaf and he is supported by the extremists that won the election! now he has to find some excuse for non-performance and so he has started the war drums early in the game! now even musharaf cannot say he is not performing! in fact jamali may end up beating musharaf in his own game!
Thats just bread and butter for a puppet politician...
Thought provoking article from Irfan Hussain… I’ve great respect for this man
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/mazdak/mazdak.htm
The other day, the New Delhi correspondent of this newspaper quoted L.K. Advani, India’s deputy prime minister, as ‘challenging Pakistan to a fourth war’.
Even though he was electioneering in Gujarat, this kind of jingoistic rhetoric from a supposedly responsible politician speaks volumes for what passes as sanity in the higher echelons of subcontinental leadership. Lest we Pakistanis think we can be holier-than-them, let me remind the readers of the bellicose statements that issue forth daily from our own leaders.
Indeed, a few months ago at the height of the military stand-off between the two countries, I remember seeing ex-Captain Gohar Ayub, ex-speaker and ex-minister, holding forth on a private TV channel. When asked what kind of war it would be if one were to break out, he said repeatedly and with great satisfaction that it would be ‘short and sharp’. Almost gleefully, he dilated upon the devastatingly unerring nature of modern weapons systems as well as their vast destructive capability. His face shining with a sheen of perspiration and conviction, he repeated the mantra ‘Short and sharp!’ as though he was reciting a battle command he had learned in his old army days.
Just for the record, the good captain never fired a gun in anger, having been honourably relieved of this responsibility soon after his father general (later self-promoted field marshal) Ayub Khan staged a coup. The only time he led troops into action was when his father won the heavily tilted election against Miss Fatima Jinnah in 1964, and son Gohar marched with a ragtag bunch of tribals into Liaquatabad and Nazimabad in Karachi where fighting broke out and he had to beat a hasty retreat.
My point is that too many leaders speak blithely of war without an inkling of what it means, both for the soldiers who are ordered into action, and for the civilians who suffer as a consequence. As a matter of fact, we in Pakistan - and most Indians, for that matter - have never suffered the devastating consequences of war. In the context of the titanic struggles that have taken place elsewhere, our wars have been skirmishes by comparison. To get an idea of the scale of hostilities between India and Pakistan, more soldiers died on both sides in the Kargil operation than in the 1965 and 1971 wars combined.