What Will Happen if the USA Withdraws From Afghanistan Amin sahib,

IMHO USA would stay engaged in A'stan if the benefits of staying on or the cost of withdrawing wud be higher than the costs of staying on there (which do seem to be pretty high). The question is does USA have any such benefits:

#1Preventing AQ type organisations from getting control of A'stan.
#2 Safeguarding Central Asian hydrocarbon transits thru A'stan or HC interests in A'stan itself.
#3 Doing ungal to Iran, Russia and China.

Are 1,2 or 3 true? Are they worth the cost of hanging on to A'stan at great cost?

Coming to Partition- some sort of partition will certainly happen if Taliban gain control of A'stan again with Iran- Russia-India (either separately or as an axis) mark out spheres of influence in Northern and Western A'stan.

It wud be a sensible idea to partition Afganistan into Pushtoon, Tajik and Uzbeq zones.

This wud present an opportunity as well as challenge to Pakistan. Opportunity in the sense that Pushtoon A'stan cud be merged with NWFP into a large Pushtoon province within Pakistan but this wud require Punjoo elite to share power with Pushtoons (which they failed to with the Bongs). Failure to do so wud result in a challenge- Pushtoon A'stan cud seek expansion into NWFP resulting in splitting Pak along the River Indus.

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India’s Nuclear Fizzle GF mian,

and sleep on the railroad tracks, dodging trains as they shelter from the elements

FYI,

Bhindians don't sleep on the railroad tracks, they merely cr** by its side.

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India’s Nuclear Fizzle Gf Mian,

Who are those wonderful ladies that you named? Aunts from your village?

The late Kalpana Chawla was an astronaut, Indra Nooyi is the CFO of Pepsi. Ekta Kapoor runs a TV company whose programs I understand are quite popular in Af-Pak region too.

Yes, you are right - the ladies the kind Nkg moshai has mentioned in #135 are more likely to come from his village than from your pind.

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Did Pakistan Modify Harpoon Missile? Anilji,

One way to sort out the dispute could be to reduce it to a common denominator- calorie consumption per day. One source (FAO's 2008 statistics???) suggested that India was marginally higher than Pak's which Riaz Haq sahib dsiputed. I cant fish out this data.

If it is not too much of a hassle can you dig up the data on calorie consumption country-wide by some reputed source which can lay the dispute to a rest.

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Did Pakistan Modify Harpoon Missile? Romair,

could that be why the ignorant gul khan ruled over you guys for 800 years

I am not an historian but as far as my knowledge goes, Gul Khan ruled India for max 650 years in parts of India even less.

He did rule Pakistan for almost 800 years and will almost certainly return soon to reclaim his patrimony.

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Did Pakistan Modify Harpoon Missile? Riaz Haq sahib,

The problem didn't exist prior to 1970 when they were much better off as Pakistanis.

Well they consume more rice than you consume wheat, so how does that make them worse off than Pakis.

Besides didnt you guys call them Bhookha Bangalis b4 1970. So liberation actually made them better off. But worldwide Madrasa alumnis are not known for logic, anyways.

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Did Pakistan Modify Harpoon Missile? Riaz Haq sahib,

But if I were to believe you, then India's per million population rice consumption of 78,000 tons is still well below Bangladesh's 182,000 tons.

Good, sir. Please tell that to 15 million or so Bangldeshi infiltrators who are living illegally in our country.

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Did Pakistan Modify Harpoon Missile? Riaz Haq sahib,

Per million population wheat consumption in Pakistan is 115,000 metric tons versus 63,000 metric tons in India.

Yes. But only 25% or so of people in India are predominantly wheat eaters. Most Indians are rice eaters.

But then the maulvis in the madrassa which you are an alumni of wudnt have known that.

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When India Banned Thought Masadi sb,

....Our own majumdar, a right wing loon, who has stopped posting on my behalf because we differ in our opinion

That was uncalled for, sir. It is just that I have been somewhat busy of late, spend less time on chowk and you manage to get banned on weekends when I am not on Net.

I will be very happy to post on your behalf whenever u r banned otherwise.

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When India Banned Thought DM sb,

Re: 158

Spot on.

The only good thing JLN ever did in his life was to tank the CMP and ensure the partition of Bengal and Punjab as well.

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When India Banned Thought Chachoo,

I was one of YLH's first converts on chowk.

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Gojra Incident ... Shame Riaz haq sahib,

It's the same between India and Pakistan, everything India does and every crime its forces commit is in "retaliation" against "meddling" and "terror" from Pakistan.

This is substantially correct. Stop interfering Kashmir and most Indian soldiesr wud be returned to barracks.

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Gojra Incident ... Shame Riaz Haq sahib,

Re: 106

The first stone was cast by Pakistan. They tried to undermine the accession of Kashmir to India and in the early 1960s they gave shelter to Phizo and his Naga rebels. Indian meddling in Pakistan - in BD from late 1960s- started in retaliation to Pak's nefarious role in Kashmir and India's NE.

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Jinnah to Jihad Sanatani bhai,

Ok tell us the alternative to partition. If in India with a 14% muslim minority you cannot live in peace how would you propose to do the same with a 40% muslim minority

That is a good point and no one either from the Right or Left or Centre seems to have a clue.

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Pakistan Crisis - Seven Problem, Seven Solutions Riaz Haq sb,

Re: 97

Most Western democracies too went thru this stage, so must India and Pak. But the end product maybe better than what we have today.

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Pakistan Crisis - Seven Problem, Seven Solutions Riaz Haq sb,

Re: 97

Most Western democracies too went thru this stage, so must India and Pak. But the end product maybe better than what we have today.

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