The economic downfall as a result of joining WOT is a convinient excuse paddled by Pakistani politicians. Also Pakistan's economy is still floundering despite rest of the world moving steadily out of the recession so the global phenomenon is yet another excuse to hide behind.
according to Moodys, the Pakistani economy is stable; though with recent floods it will have a detrimental impact.
this thread is about Kashmir, if you want to talk about economy then lets do it in the proper sub-forum. this is NOT the place.
Economy of a country, that too as large as Pakistan does not become so ill in a span of 1 year, unless the issues were pre existing. And its the result of favouring extremism till 2007 (if i take your comment on face value) that is visible today in terms of well entrenched terrorist support in heartlands of Pakistan.
you seem to keep repeating yourself over and over; and I already rubbished your claims. Then you go a step further and take what I said completely out of context; Just move on.
Kashmir has simply become an excuse for Pakistan as the terrorists like LeT etc that used to be tools for promoting this insurgency in Kashmir earlier have become too large and strong for the Pakistani state to control completely now.
why would we need to support terrorists to help with our objectives in Kashmir. The Kashmiris are rightfully doing it on their own; they are standing up in defiance against the hindustany occupation (men, women, youth).
it's a purely Kashmiri phenomenon. You talk about ''extremism''
I think it's purely existentialism.
by the way, LeT doesn't even exist.
But even if I agree to what you say about getting pulled into WOT, there is a reason why Pakistan and not Iran or any other bordering states of Afghanistan got pulled into WOT with a threat of join us or face stone age. Something to ponder over. Isnt it?
interestingly enough, Iran and U.S. (initially) had many similar objectives in Afghanistan; too bad that U.S. chose to not make amends and keep considering Iran a foe. But the WoT is going quite poorly in my opinion, since the world isn't much safer than it was before --if anything, it is more dangerous and at more risk to ideological/political forms of terrorism.
U.S. had little leverage or ways to inflict pressure on Iran. That said, it seems many in Washington are now saying that Iran is providing support to taleban and Al Qaeda. Go figure.
Again -- irrelevant to this discussion.
And thanks for your expert comments on the level of my previous post. Neither needed nor relevant
Your post completely deviated from the topic at hand and provided little substance to this thread; therefore it can be disregarded completely.
But you are welcome.
Violent Start to Ramzan as 4 Killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR: Indian troops killed four Muslims in Kashmir in a violent start to the holy fasting month of Ramzan, officials said Sunday.
The two were shot dead at dawn in northern Kupwara district after they infiltrated into Indian-administered Kashmir from the Pakistani zone of the divided state, an Indian army spokesman said.
Two others were killed overnight in the same district during a fierce gun battle.
The army has foiled more than a dozen attempts by militants to infiltrate into Indian-administered Kashmir from the Pakistani zone since the start of August.
Police and paramilitary forces maintained a tight watch to prevent attacks on security targets as thousands of Muslims filled mosques for afternoon prayers.
Loudhailers relayed prayers to people who knelt in the street on rugs and prayer mats in the summer capital of Srinagar.
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