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Jealousy from Indians. :oops:


Jealousy for what Aid Package?

And I am very glad Senator Kerry has great support for Pakistan, it will go a long way at the Hill. Just make sure he does not flip flop like he did for the american public.
 
Pakistan denies India shared evidence of Mumbai attacks
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
By Mariana Baabar

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has categorically denied that India had shared any evidence with it regarding the Mumbai attacks.

Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee while interacting with the media in Srinagar said on Tuesday that India had shared evidence with Pakistan, demanding that now Pakistan should take steps to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure on its territory rather than giving mere assurances. “Words must be followed by action,” he said at a press conference.

Mukherjee said that sanctuaries of terrorists should be dismantled. He said the Mumbai attacks were not linked to the ongoing liberation struggle in the held Kashmir. “Absolutely not. India has neither formally nor informally shared any evidence regarding the Mumbai attacks with Pakistan. We have requested them several times. Also, India has not made up its mind regarding our proposal to send a high-level delegation to India in this regard and our requests to take up our offer of exchanging information and setting up a joint investigation team,” a Foreign Office spokesman told The News.

However, he added that contacts through diplomatic channels were continuing. To a query, the spokesman said India could contact Pakistan through the Anti-Terror Mechanism set up between the two countries or through diplomatic channels, which means either the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi or the Indian High Commission in Islamabad. “But this has not happened as yet,” he said.

The spokesman appeared tight-lipped about the recent meeting in Paris, which was attended by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Indian State Minister for External Affairs Anand Sharma, except to say that, “This was a very good meeting on Afghanistan, a country whose stability is of great importance to us.”

However, journalists who were present at the venue and the concluding press conference in Paris said whenever Sharma took the floor, he opened his remarks with the Mumbai attacks and ended with the same topic.

“The participants told us that Sharma was very hawkish in his remarks and at times went too far. It is not clear whether this is how he always interacts or whether this was the line he was given by the South Block. His choice of words was unbelievable and he was certainly very hawkish,” was one view from Paris.

The French media also did not bother much about Sharma during his stay unlike their interest in Qureshi who had nearly five hours of media interaction.“He was certainly all over the French media even before the conference on Afghanistan commenced,” was another view.

When asked about Qureshi, the sources said he was in his usual gentle and diplomatic self, trying to impress on Sharma that Pakistan was not shy of coming forward but it needed solid evidence from India before taking more steps.

Pakistan denies India shared evidence of Mumbai attacks
 
Pakistan denies India shared evidence of Mumbai attacks
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
By Mariana Baabar

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has categorically denied that India had shared any evidence with it regarding the Mumbai attacks.

The allegations are worthless until India shares its proof with Pakistan.
 
Jealousy for what Aid Package?

And I am very glad Senator Kerry has great support for Pakistan, it will go a long way at the Hill. Just make sure he does not flip flop like he did for the american public.

The aid package actually sponsored and pushed by then Senator, now VP-elect, Biden and Senator Lugar, with President-elect Obama as a strong supporter.

A bit hard for Kerry to 'flip flop' on that one, unless the entire incoming US administration flip flops.
 
The aid package actually sponsored and pushed by then Senator, now VP-elect, Biden and Senator Lugar, with President-elect Obama as a strong supporter.

A bit hard for Kerry to 'flip flop' on that one, unless the entire incoming US administration flip flops.


I believe you are right. Pakistan will get this approved in the hill. The congress and senate has come out to be majority, so this aid will pass farily easy.
 
I believe you are right. Pakistan will get this approved in the hill. The congress and senate has come out to be majority, so this aid will pass farily easy.

The India caucus will be working hard to insert other conditions in there, if not have it canceled altogether.;)
 
The India caucus will be working hard to insert other conditions in there, if not have it canceled altogether.;)
Yep, they are already at work! :D


Move in US to get Pakistan aid stopped

December 17, 2008
By Our Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dec 16: US politicians with close links to India have quietly launched a campaign to persuade the incoming Obama administration to stop US aid to Pakistan.

“I do not believe in aiding countries that aid terrorism,” said US Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey.

Declaring Pakistan a “failed State” Congressman Frank Pallone, another Democrat, said he opposed giving billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan because he believed it would be used against India.

Gary Ackerman, a pro-Indian Democratic Congressman from New York who has long advocated stopping US military aid to Pakistan, urged Washington to review its policy towards Islamabad after the Mumbai attacks.

“The implication for us is that there are bad guys still out there, and we’re going to have to learn how to deal with them, because our friends are getting sucked into this big-time,” said Mr Ackerman, who chairs the House subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia.

Some of these lawmakers may move a resolution in the US Congress after the inauguration of the new president on Jan 20, strongly condemning Mumbai attacks and urging lawmakers to stop military assistance to Pakistan.

A $15 billion, 10-year aid package already proposes to attach US military assistance to Pakistan to its performance in the war against terror, authorising the US administration to stop the aid if it finds that Islamabad was not doing enough to fight terrorism.

One of the primary movers of the bill, Senator Joseph Biden, is now the vice-president-elect. He chaired the Senate’s powerful Foreign Relations Committee before the November election. A former Democratic presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry, will replace him as chairman of the committee and is also expected to back the bill to provide generous economic assistance to Pakistan.

But the move by pro-Indian American politicians can harm this effort. Diplomatic observers in Washington feel that while it may not be possible to stop US aid to Pakistan because of the country’s strategic importance, the lawmakers may succeed in attaching unfavourable conditions.

Even some of these pro-Indian lawmakers realise Pakistan’s strategic importance. Senator Menendez, while emphasising the need to attach US aid to Islamabad’s performance in the war against terror, also cautioned a gathering of Indian-Americans in New Jersey this week not to stir an India-Pakistan war because such a conflict “might lead to drastic consequences”.

He urged India to come out with all the evidence it had to link Mumbai attacks to Pakistan.“We have an obligation to bring terrorists to justice. Lashkar-e-Taiba must be brought to justice,” he said.

Congressman Pallone, however, went over the top while condemning Pakistan.

“Pakistan is essentially a failed state. I do not believe the central government controls most of the territory of the country,” he declared.
 
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