From: nazir@sw.stratus.com (Meer Nazir)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Report: U.S insists Pakistan prove its's not backing terrorists
Date: 11 Jan 1993 23:21:55 GMT
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In article <1993Jan11.144943.46297@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, dchatterjee@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> In article <ll3fo0INN9p@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, tsreddy@skitime.Eng.Sun.COM 
> (T.S.Reddy) writes:
> > In article <1993Jan11.080708@IASTATE.EDU> maali@IASTATE.EDU (Muhammad A Ali) 
> >writes:
> >>In article <1993Jan10.194952.17472@oakhill.sps.mot.com>,
> >>fmbutt@engage.sps.mot.com (Farooq M. Butt) writes:
> >>> 
> >>> This is yet another notch in the ratcheting up of anti-Pakistan/muslim
> >>> pressure.  I hope it is an expected one, because I was waiting for
> >>> this to happen.  Pakistan is useless to the USA and furthermore has is
> >>> seen as insolent to one of the masters' new buddies: India.  Remember
> >>> that geopolitically even though India is not a very important area for
> >>> US foreign policy, Pakistan's location is even worse.  Moreover India
> >>> has been attracting US capital any way it can (by deregulating old
> >>> socialist industries and trying to setup a silicon valley in
> >>> Bangalore). Thus the US finds itself holding a stake in India's
> >>> stability.  There is no such US stake in Pakistan.  Indeed, the
> >>> relationship has been so one-sided that Americans would not even bat
> >>> an eye at slamming the door on Pakistan, meanwhile our GNP would
> >>> suffer considerably.
> >>> 

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> 
>   I agree with Mr.Ali and Mr.Reddy. Mr.Ali however has made a practical
>   solution. I am of the opinion that B'lore - which is *EXTREMELY* expensive
>   because of the hi-tech, is a place which is a city that has all the 
>   electronic talents. I must add that India did never fund terrorism. Thus,
>   most of the money was well-spent (that received as aid).
> 
>   However, in both Mr.Ali and Reddy's vein, Pakistan must stop funding the
>   JKLF forces in Kashmir. You see, gentlemen, the situation is quite grim with
>   Pakistan. Robert Gates the CIA director had filed a report - following which
>   James Baker III sent a letter to Pakistan - requesting them to stop all the
>   terrorism in Kashmir. If Pakistan has to survive to see a better tomorrow,
>   then she must resort to logical ways of spending money in industries and 
>   in R&D. The getting of the "cherished Islamic N-Bomb" and instigating all
>   the hostilities is what is giving Pakistan a bad name. This has probably
>   nothing to do with religion, but, unfortunately power-hungry politicians
>   will grab anything to save their seats.
> 

Well said deb, but remeber that US is just playing a pressure tactis on Pakistan, these tactis all of us know started from the Nuclear Program issue. One should not forget that US has never shown a slightest interest in Kashmir problem.
So if India thinks that this pressure tactis is going to help their cause, I will say they are dreaming. The moment US able to squeeze out from Pakistan what
they are looking for, both of our countries will still keep on playing hide and seek and we will see Kashmir problem as it is.

Now lets discuss this issue Will US administration be able to succeed with this new ultimatum. What cards Pakistanis have in there hands.

First Foreign Policy of Pakistan aside to the political problems has been
always a well defined policy. Unlike IRAN, IRAQ or LIBYA we are not an oil producing country. In our North we have a most strategic ally CHINA, we do not expect from China to fight for us but still we dont fear that it will be putting some kind of a big sanction on us. Iran is our trump card.We never supported IRAQ in the IRAN/IRAQ war. Eventhough Zia(murhoom) was famous for his personal friendship with arab rulers and I think Iranians are aware of this fact. We have good relations
with both the fighting and ruling factions in Afghanistan, with the unstable
Afghanistan even US policy makers knows the only gateway in that region is
Pakistan. We have already established good understanding relationship with
Central Asain Russian states. 

With Clinton talking more about his focus on domestic issues. I think he will
hardly be motivated in starting a new problem in that region within first year of his presidency. 

Also with the kind of goverment in Pakistan, it does'nt matter they are corrupt
or good politicians, one thing is common they are all bussinessman and they
knew the importance of any such problem, for their own a*s. Sometimes to have
a corrupt guy in office is also a blessing.

So for all those people who are belated or sad on some recent news, lets keep 
your fingers cross. 

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