It is heart wrenching to see the suffering of Lebanese and Israeli refugees being forced out of their homes. It is time Pakistan should send mercy ships to Beirut and Haifa and bring internally displaced refugees to Pakistan.
Hopefully people in Israel and Lebanon would realize that there are human beings on the other side of the border.
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Pakistanis make fine peace keepers, hopefully they can be part of the international force placed on Lebanon's southern boarder.
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I don't think bringing Lebanese people into Pakistan will help anyone at all... oh wait, you are being sarcastic.
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Actually, Yes
Pakistani Troops should be deployed on the border between Israel and Lebanon
It will raise our international prestige and it will be good for Pakistan
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Thanks UTD. Pakistan and Turkey can provide huge help in Southern Lebanon.
However this thread is about providing comfort to internally displaced refugees in Lebanon and Israel.
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I'll suggest something better.. get the haraami Israelis to stop the bombing and killing.. no need for any rescue and relief efforts that way..
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Bombs will stop as soon as Hizbiz return the soldiers.
However this thread is about providing comfort to internally displaced refugees in Lebanon and Israel.
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its probably easier to have the refugees in the region, first of all language and cultural familiarity would be good for them, secondly once this madness is over and they want to go back it is easier, even if they go back and forth to start building a life there while having a base at the country where they are refugees until theya re fully ready to go back.
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Remember the last time Pakistan brought refugees in? Afghan war. Child molestation, killing, illegal arms, gayism went up up and is still on the rise in Pakistan.
Pakistan needs to concentrate on its own problems and not try to act like a freaking baby sitter for the other countries, Muslims in particular.
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Hopefully people in Israel and Lebanon would realize that there are human beings on the other side of the border.
How do you know these refugess will be safer in Pakistan.. Our own people in the mosques are bombed and killed in the name of different sects and religious schools- what makes you think these refugees will be spared from the usual Shia-Sunni killings?
Instead of that, all countries should try to stop the bloodshed- it aint that difficult if china, russia and other biggies put pressure on warring parties. The UN is by far the weakest of all organizations when it comes to stopping wars and/or agressions. You see these horrific images of dead and burnt children and u wonder what good a piece of land is for which countries wage such a bloody war and shell bombs at each other.
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i think you should first bring your OWN people living in refugee camps of Bangladesh for the last 30 years.
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The most effective way of tackling refugee problem in Lebanon is to give them power to defend themselves and stop others making them refugee. That would be humanitarian thing to do too.
IR-SAM missiles are one of the best defensive weapons. Pakistan has developed SAM missile that is most advanced and very effective (better then Stinger missiles) for defence, known as IR Unza Mk-III.
Thus to help Lebanese, Pakistan should give/sell them these missiles so that Israeli Airforce over the sky of Lebanon can be neutralised. Pakistan can also provide them other sophisticated defensive weapons that Pakistan builds.
Pakistan should sell these missiles and other defensive arsenals to Iran, Syria, Lebanon, or any friendly countries for defensive purposes. It would earn foreign currencies for Pakistan, reduce cost of these defensive arsenals (due to larger production) and would make Pakistan stronger with influences in those countries.
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^^ Luckily Pakistan is a major non-NATO ally. That means we are not supposed to be part of "Axis of Evil" rogue regimes like Iran and Syria.
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^^ Bhai, I do not think it matters. Selling these weapons would be beneficial to Pakistan defence as it would bring foreign currencies that Pakistan can use to enhance own defence. Being non-NATO allies should not make any difference too as, if being NATO allies would have made difference then USA could not have sold offensive weapons to India. (Treaties are always for mutual benefits).
Regardless, these are defensive weapons and all countries in the world have right to defend, so such treaties (being NATO allies) should not matter.
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Saleem Sahib. I guess some folks have already forgotten what Iranians and Libyans did to their Pakistani brother / helper / traitor / black-marketer AQ Khan.
How many more Pakistanis would you like to be implicated in international smuggling of weapons?
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Refugee crisis cannot be averted by simply providing weaponry to Lebanon, civilians will have to leave the trouble region. Remember Afghanistan?
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People will leave for resistance if there would be presence of foreign army on the ground and there is option available. In Afghanistan case, Russians army along with Afghan forces was on the ground and for any effective resistance, leaving the country and launching resistance from neighbouring countries help. [Provided, neighbouring countries allows that resistance working from their land, risking attack on themselves]
If Afghans had resisted living within the country, there would have been higher casualties amongst Afghan resistance forces. Actually, Pakistan allowed their land and Afghans resisted, because USA was paying and was behind Afghan resistance (that is the reason USSR did not attacked Pakistan as if they had, it could have started world war).
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an absolute no-no to lebanese refugees imported to pakistan. we inducted large amounts of afghan refugees in the past, and look how it has affected pakistan. i know lebanese people are different, but a developing country like ours cannot afford any more refugees. it would further reduce the standard of living.
i know they are our muslim brothers and all that, but there is no real muslim brotherhood in in the world as such. would lebanon have accepted pak refugees if the situation was reversed. probably not. so, i feel we shd not consider that option.
we can provide other help like sending relief goods, etc. also, pak shd take a greater moral stand right now. most of the muslim world is either shamelessly quiet, or is not saying enough. pak shd be more vocal in this issue.
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Good points overall.
Pakistan is big enough to accomodate Lebanese Christians, Lebanese Sunnis, annd Lebanese Shias. So they get some distance from Hizbiz.
Pak should be more vocal in:
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Shd be a joint army, otherwise Pak will directly come into the limelight and the intl media will portray Pak negatively like it almost always does. A joint force from Pak, Turkey, Saudi, Egypt, Russia, China, possibly Cuba, even France since it is pretty vocal on this issue, a couple central Asian and a few South American nations would kinda be an ideal situation.
But coming back to reality on ground I doubt whether it will really happen. But we shd surely send some relief goods by air or water in Lebanon. Those poor victims of war really need some serious help in that regards.