Pakistan: A home for terror? -Hussein Haqqani
jerry719964
Senator (1k+ posts)
My God our Indian ''FRIENDS'' are so pumped up ,they are wasting their whole time to look up for any negative news against Pakistan
KhanHaripur
Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
India Is Now The Largest Importer Of Arms In The World
A Stockholm-based think-tank finds that India overtakes China as the world’s biggest weapons buyer. American think-tanks have been demonizing Pakistan for being India-centric and refusing US demands to move soldiers away from the Indian border. The US has been telling us India means us no harm. Here is a European study that shows India’s armament drive has reached feverish levels. Pakistan is right to take precautions against an eastern neighbor with a checkered history.
BASHY QURAISHY | Friday | 29 April 2011 | Columnists
WWW.PAKNATIONALISTS.COM
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—American think tanks, government officials and CIA have often accused Pakistan to be too India-fixated and have advised, even cajoled Pakistan to shift its forces from Indian border to the Afghan front to fight America’s losing war on terrorism.
These anti-Pakistan lobbies often present India as a peace loving country, which has no designs and ill will towards Pakistan. These self-styled pundits as well as pro-Indian lobby in Pakistan should be ashamed of such a behavior and now think deep and hard about such a misguided discourse.
Here is why.
A report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) says that India accounted for 9% of all global weapons imports between 2006 and 2010. The study also shows that India has overtaken China to become the world's largest importer of arms. As it was not enough, the report predicts that India will continue to be to the leading arms importer in the coming future, the report adds.
India’s present defense budget is a whopping $32.5 billion and it is looking to spend more than $50 billion over the next five years to modernize its armed forces, including a $10 billion deal to buy 126 new fighter jets. Last October, India announced that it would buy 250 to 300 advanced fifth-generation stealth fighter jets from Russia over the next 10 years. The deal, which could be worth up to $30 billion, is believed to be the largest in Indian records. Now it has decided to buy even more hardware by short-listing two European fighters and ruled out two US rivals for a key $11 billion military contract. (BBC News. 28 April 2011)
It is said by western experts that India's increased spending on arms comes amid rising concerns about China's growing power, and India’s traditional rivalry with neighboring Pakistan, with which is has fought three wars.
Well, we all know that India with all its weapons is no match for China. The billion-dollar question is this: Where will all these expensive and latest jetfighters be used? Not in Himalaya Mountains or in dogfights over Tibet.
Naturally, all this hardware would be used against Pakistan to fulfill the old Hindustani dream of Nehru, who, during the partition of British India and the independence of Pakistan very arrogantly remarked, “Let them have their Pakistan. It will come crawling back to Mother India in six months.”
Mr. Quraishy is Secretary General - EMISCO -European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion, in Strasbourg/Copenhagen. Reach him at [email protected]
A Stockholm-based think-tank finds that India overtakes China as the world’s biggest weapons buyer. American think-tanks have been demonizing Pakistan for being India-centric and refusing US demands to move soldiers away from the Indian border. The US has been telling us India means us no harm. Here is a European study that shows India’s armament drive has reached feverish levels. Pakistan is right to take precautions against an eastern neighbor with a checkered history.
BASHY QURAISHY | Friday | 29 April 2011 | Columnists
WWW.PAKNATIONALISTS.COM
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—American think tanks, government officials and CIA have often accused Pakistan to be too India-fixated and have advised, even cajoled Pakistan to shift its forces from Indian border to the Afghan front to fight America’s losing war on terrorism.
These anti-Pakistan lobbies often present India as a peace loving country, which has no designs and ill will towards Pakistan. These self-styled pundits as well as pro-Indian lobby in Pakistan should be ashamed of such a behavior and now think deep and hard about such a misguided discourse.
Here is why.
A report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) says that India accounted for 9% of all global weapons imports between 2006 and 2010. The study also shows that India has overtaken China to become the world's largest importer of arms. As it was not enough, the report predicts that India will continue to be to the leading arms importer in the coming future, the report adds.
India’s present defense budget is a whopping $32.5 billion and it is looking to spend more than $50 billion over the next five years to modernize its armed forces, including a $10 billion deal to buy 126 new fighter jets. Last October, India announced that it would buy 250 to 300 advanced fifth-generation stealth fighter jets from Russia over the next 10 years. The deal, which could be worth up to $30 billion, is believed to be the largest in Indian records. Now it has decided to buy even more hardware by short-listing two European fighters and ruled out two US rivals for a key $11 billion military contract. (BBC News. 28 April 2011)
It is said by western experts that India's increased spending on arms comes amid rising concerns about China's growing power, and India’s traditional rivalry with neighboring Pakistan, with which is has fought three wars.
Well, we all know that India with all its weapons is no match for China. The billion-dollar question is this: Where will all these expensive and latest jetfighters be used? Not in Himalaya Mountains or in dogfights over Tibet.
Naturally, all this hardware would be used against Pakistan to fulfill the old Hindustani dream of Nehru, who, during the partition of British India and the independence of Pakistan very arrogantly remarked, “Let them have their Pakistan. It will come crawling back to Mother India in six months.”
Mr. Quraishy is Secretary General - EMISCO -European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion, in Strasbourg/Copenhagen. Reach him at [email protected]
IndiaGuy
Senator (1k+ posts)
My dear friend, do you think I am the only person in the world who is point the figure to pakistan?
nauman
Senator (1k+ posts)
whenever usa pak relation become tense they try to captilize it as they cannot do any thing by their own.please do something indians Hafiz saeed freely moving in Lahore streets why not u follow usa
nauman
Senator (1k+ posts)
We know u wait for others to point fingure towards Pak and than u can follow them
gazoomartian
Prime Minister (20k+ posts)
Jerry
they are notwasting their time here. they are being paid $/hr for each post or on hourly basis by the Indian govt
