"India, Pakistan open coffers in effort to court Afghanistan" by Emily Wax, Washington Post | April 25, 2010
CHELEBAAK, Afghanistan — Along a rugged stretch of road in the shadow of the snow-covered Hindu Kush mountains, villagers in mud-brick huts praised the newest addition to their vista: a series of massive steel towers that reach into the clouds.
The towers, part of a $1.3 billion aid package from India, carry electricity to a crippled region that has long gone without. They also represent an intense competition between India and archrival Pakistan for influence in whatever kind of Afghanistan emerges from the US-led war.
As if it were only them.
Related: Why Obama Went to Afghanistan
If I didn't know better I would swear my peace-loving, agenda-pushing, war-promoting paper was trying to start a war.
Or get the two sides ready to take sides, right?
To blunt India’s eager courtship of Afghanistan, Pakistan is pouring $300 million of its own money and resources into a nation it also views as key to the stability of volatile South Asia, as well as a potentially lucrative business partner.
The economic stakes are especially enormous for India, the far richer nation, as it seeks energy to fuel its rise as a global economic power. Afghanistan is a bridge to Central Asia’s vast gas and oil reserves, which are coveted by India and Pakistan, both of which have nuclear weapons but barely enough electricity.
Yeah, the U.S. has NO INTEREST in ANY of THAT, huh, MSM?
I don't know why we have the 100,000 troops there then, but.... just accept at face value whatever the obfuscating agenda-pushers say, dear readers.
Just think how if you picked up a paper thinking you were learning something how wrong you would be.
And WHAT DO YOU MEAN they have BARELY ENOUGH ELECTRICITY!?
I guess the WARS KNOCKING THINGS DOWN does not help, huh?
India’s efforts have come at a cost: It has suffered four attacks on its interests in Afghanistan in the past two years, which have killed at least 101 people and wounded 239. An attack on a Kabul guesthouse in February killed nine Indians, including a visiting musician and the chief engineer of the Chelebaak electricity project.
FLASHBACK:
"Pakistani militants tied to attacks in Kabul; Afghan officials contradict claims made by Taliban" by Karin Brulliard, Washington Post | March 3, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan intelligence official said yesterday that the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-i-Taiba orchestrated the deadly attack that targeted two guesthouses in the capital last week.
Salt shaker, please.
Thank you.
The Afghan Taliban asserted responsibility for the assault, which left 16 people dead, within hours of its start. But Sayed Ansari, Afghan intelligence spokesman, said investigators had reached a different conclusion based on evidence that the attack was carried out by a team of suicide bombers who spoke Urdu, a Pakistani language, and who were searching for Indian victims.
Lashkar-i-Taiba has focused most of its attacks on India, which blames the militant organization for the siege that killed 165 people in Mumbai in November 2008. Evidence that it was involved in Friday’s bombings in Kabul could undermine fragile peace efforts between longtime foes Pakistan and India, whose foreign secretaries met last week.
And WHO WANTS THAT, huh?
The claim by Afghan intelligence could not be verified yesterday, and it contradicts the conclusions of other observers. A US military intelligence official told reporters Monday that he believed that the Haqqani network, a Pakistan-based Afghan militant group, was behind the attack. Indian officials have said they suspect the two groups worked in concert to stage the raid....
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Ah.....
"Haqqani.... credited with introducing suicide bombing to the region.... cultivated as a "unilateral" asset of the CIA and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work.... He may have had a role in expediting the escape of Osama Bin Laden.... In July 2008, CIA officials confronted Pakistan officials with evidence of ties between Inter-Services Intelligence and Haqqani. Haqqani has been accused of involvement in the 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul...."
For US officials, India’s increasing presence in Afghanistan is causing new security and diplomatic problems in a country where more than 1,000 American troops have died in more than eight years of war. Washington also fears upsetting the delicate balance in its relations with Islamabad.
What WaPo bull-oney!
“Let’s be honest with one another: There are real suspicions in both India and Pakistan about what the other is doing in Afghanistan,’’ Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters after a recent trip to New Delhi.
Yeah, let's be honest, Bob.
PFFT!
How about the ISI being in bed UP TO ITS NECK with CIA!?
You ought to know all about, Mr. CIA man during the 1980s and 90s.
Washington is feeling pressure from Pakistan to limit India’s role in Afghanistan.
As if that sort of pressure was listened to or mattered.
Both nations fear, to a degree that outsiders often find irrational, that an Afghanistan allied with the other would be a threat to their security.
Consider the source that says such a thing.
A lying, agenda-pushing, war-promoting source.
Pakistan considers Afghanistan, another majority-Muslim nation, a natural ally and is deeply suspicious of India’s efforts there.
Wouldn't you be?
“We don’t want to be flanked by hostile elements,’’ said Mansoor Ahmad Khan, deputy chief of mission in the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul, referring to Pakistan’s location — sandwiched between Afghanistan to the west and India to the east.
Oh, like Iran?
Related:
"In contrast with Pakistani border areas, which have been overrun by the Taliban, Herat – just 75 miles from the Iranian border – has flourished with the help of Iran, one of the Karzai government's strongest supporters. In Herat, for example, Iran has linked the city to the Iranian power grid and built a highway to the border."
Then WHY is my MSM making this a CONTEST between INDIA and PAKISTAN?
It is ALMOST as if they are TRYING TO START a WAR, huh?
US and NATO officials said they feared militant groups linked to Pakistan would step up attacks on Indian aid workers and other India-linked targets in Afghanistan, complicating efforts to stabilize the country.
And IF THEY WON'T, "Al-CIA-Duh" or RAW or Mossad or Blackwater or TTP whoever will.
We are NO LONGER FOOLED, MSM, sorry!
Even if you TOLD the TRUTH NOW you would NEVER BE BELIEVED!
That is why your industry is in its death throes.
Indian officials have publicly stated that they suspect a Pakistani role in the attacks against Indians; Pakistani officials denied the charges. Indian and US intelligence officials have linked Pakistan to the 2008 bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, which killed more than 50 people, saying Pakistani intelligence had collaborated with militants.
Using a CIA TOOL!!!!
Indian officials also suspect Pakistani involvement in a suicide bombing at the embassy in October, which killed 17 people.
That the last flogging of Pakistan for this piece?
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