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Yes, perhaps it is easy to handle, but then the 600K troops you have in Kashmir must be of questionable competence to have failed to stop this despite the passage of 63 years. The rebellion against India in Kashmir is absolutely a people's movement. The kids throwing stones at Indian APCs and...

Exactly. India should absolutely not participate in either IP(C) or TAP(C). Typically, the money is paid to the company operating the gas field. They then work out a deal with the host nation, paying X amount for the raw material/resource in question. "Pakistanis on this forum" are not a...

Ok. So you actually don't have a clue. Do you really understand the issues at hand? The US has to be out of Afghanistan before bribes will work. That was my point. Which you missed. Xenophobia is a negative reaction to outsiders, i.e. the US. Shias have been in Afghanistan for a thousand+...

"Great" britain, ladies and gentlemen :-) Meaningless island nation to colonial power to meaningless island nation in 350 years.

Not to widen the discussion here to so many theaters, but lets take a couple of examples: Russia has had a whale of a time holding down anything, and things are fragmenting, if you haven't noticed. They've already lost control of swathes of territory. The 'stans, Chechnya, Dagestan, issues with...

In 5 years, by the time the pipeline completes, NATO will be long gone. After that, simply bribing the necessary tribes in Afghanistan will smooth matters over. That's the way things have been running for hundreds of years. In large part it is the presence of outsiders in Afghanistan that makes...

This is what I have to say: "In March 2010 Iran and Pakistan signed an agreement on the pipeline in Ankara. In April, 2010, Iran announced that it has completed construction of 1,000 kilometres of the pipeline out of the 1,100 kilometres' portion on Iranian soil" Dhaka upbeat on Iran...

I don't think India should sign the deal. This is really not in India's interest from what I can tell. By the time this pipeline is completed (5+ years), Pakistan's energy import bill will be somewhere in the $12-15B range. Afghanistan and Pakistan can consume double digit billions of...

People will believe anything. And people who don't read, especially so. The IP pipeline has been *accelerated*. Iran is done with 1,000 of the 1,200km construction effort. Lastly, Pakistan will happily pay for the gas, as it has been paying for billions in oil imports, construction of...

He was born in yemen but his dad comes from Azad Kashmir (aka, not the part of Kashmir occupied by India).

^ You had us fooled with your vicious Avatar!

Are you trying to be obtuse? The pipeline deal is $7.5B in terms of putting the infrastructure together. The energy companies that will control and profit from the flow of gas will make massive amounts of money over decades. And as for the $1T spent in Afghanistan, much of it has been spent to...

History has shown that no military power on earth has been able to hold a significant territory against the will of the local population for an indefinite period of time. I would suggest you re-evaluate, "the valley is a small enough area to be able to be suppressed with military presence"...

This is great! India, meet Riz Khan... Riz Khan, meet India!

Yeah, right. You clearly need to get out more.

Completely disagree with the comment about Karachi. There's beautiful golf courses, a number of very nice beaches - you need to find a friend who can book you a private hut and I'm sure someone on defence.pk will oblige if you need it. There's WONDERFUL restaurants. The Aqua Lounge in Zamzama...

And you know this because you conducted free and fair polls which gave you this result? Please. Don't be disingenuous and don't go down a road which will reduce this thread to abusive rants. Pakistanis will tell you that the percentage of Kashmiris wanting their land to remain part of India...

I think this can work as far as TAP is concerned, but I don't think this is in India's interests. I really think they should reconsider. The strategy they adopted for the IPI pipeline should be repeated... even if they've expressed initial interest, there is still plenty of time to pull out.

I am not disputing your experience, but there are thousands of software companies in Pakistan and obviously, your mileage will vary. In general, I think Project Management has come a LONG way in the last 5 years. As I mentioned, it has been sufficient to allow Pakistani companies to service...

But I think much of the above is going to happen anyway. And it will continue until someone in India goes back to Musharraf/Jaswant and agrees to at least make the deal public and adopt it as the first step toward a resolution. See, Musharraf/Jaswant is not an end-state. It is an evolutionary...