Husain Haqqani at UC Berkeley

[On the current situation Mr. Haqqani said that Pakistan today collects rent due to its strategic location and that Pakistan is doing this (rent collection) for the third time.]

This rent collection business would not have occurred but for Nixon and Kissinger`s megalomania and hatred of India. If in 1971 India had crossed into West Pakistan after liberating Bangladesh and had liberated Balochistan and Sindh (even if against the wishes of its inhabitants), there would have been one more nation contiguous to Afghanistan other than Pakistan in 1979 when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. India was prevented from doing this because Nixon and Kissinger warned India they wouldn`t stand idly by if India invaded West Pakistan and the Soviet Union made it very clear that their support of India in the Security Council was available so long as military operations were limited to the Eastern theatre. All countries paid the price for this stupidity: the Soviet Union not only lost Afghnistan after a 10-year occupation, it collapsed as a country. The US got 9/11 as the payback as well as a nuclear-armed Pakistan happily trading atom bombs for missiles with North Korea. Pakistan itself is awash in Kalashnikovs and drugs and mullahs with a military twice the size for half the country of pre-1971 eating up the budget and having first dibs on every economic activity. India has ``freedom fighters`` from Pakistan crossing into Kashmir and killing people because they happen to undertake a pilgrimage to Amarnath or Vaishnodevi. It remains to be seen what China is going to reap for its support of Pakistan and its strategic location.

arjun_m:

You no doubt find that finally, after one thousand years, the hour has finally come for forward-caste/communist-hating/secular-bashing/c++ & java-enabled hindus (and mad mullahs are accordingly demoted; time`s up; and Multix is clearly extinct).

You will find your narrow chest swelling after reading:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/2519729.stm

(BBC World`s HARDtalk host talks to BJP`s Brajesh Mishra)

;-)

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