Friday, January 22, 2010

Al Qaeda could provoke India-Pakistan war

"Under the umbrella, they intend to destabilise not only Pakistan, but the entire region by provoking confrontation between India and Pakistan through terror attacks. This is a very complicated issue and very dangerous for the entire region as a whole,"

If a war were to break out between India and Pakistan, whose side would the US take? I would suspect we would take Pakistan's side because if we took India's side then it would have to be an all out war where the first thing to do would be to take over Karachi and it's port. Then we would have to secure the Khyber pass in order to assure supplies would reach our troops in Afghanistan.

I don't believe India's leadership has the heart or will for such a large conflict with Pakistan. Plus it would mean they would have to stay in Pakistan for a long time and all the problems from Ghandi's time would pop up again.Financial Times

NEW DELHI: Giving a clean chit to the Pakistani establishment, the US has said Al Qaeda’s terror syndicate, which includes the Lashkar-e-Taiba,
is trying to provoke an Indo-Pak confrontation.

US defence secretary Robert Gates, who discussed terror threat in the region with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, defence minister AK Antony and external affairs minister SM Krishna, acknowledged that India’s patience would be ``limited’’ if a Mumbai-type terror attack took place once again. But he also maintained that it was the al Qaeda in collaboration with the Lashkar-e-Taiba was trying to trigger an Indo-Pak confrontation.

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