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No body is a chicken both are just sane.. nuclear power is just a deterrent due to power they hold now , anyway if they do you will be roasted like a chicken lol !!!
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No body is a chicken both are just sane.. nuclear power is just a deterrent due to power they hold now , anyway if they do you will be roasted like a chicken lol !!!
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There wont be a nuclear war bro, both sides will sabre rattle and that is all....
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Yes lets hope so bro. Indians and Pakistanis will always have some sort of issues but this isnt a joke no more. I would even go as far and say the land is being ruled by outsider colonial in many ways. Nations are using both India and Pakistan for their own economic and strategic purposes so they are happy with the status quo. Both nations should just give up the land of Kashmir, sign a treaty neither is disadvantaged and move to living a peaceful co-existance life where people who similar in culture can help each other to prospeour. When I speak to English natives about this , they are baffled as to why this cannot be sorted out and so am I.
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I believe Musharaff and Vajpayee was close to a treaty like what you mentioned above, however mysteriously Musharaff was taken out of power in Pakistan as the deal was coming into fruition. It is puzzling how Pakistanis and Indians who have more in common with each other than any other neighbours are destined to fight and wreck havoc on each other......
I don't think it is a question of being "too chicken". India won't use nuclear weapons first because its conventional forces will beat back any conventional Pakistani attack. Pakistan won't use nuclear weapons because it doesn't want an Indian nuclear retaliation. Whatever they may say on Kashmir, the Pakistani Army generals have lives of luxury they don't want to lose by starting a nuclear war.
Nobody benefits from a nuclear war. Only a few hotheads who keep muttering "rapes and genocide of Kashmiris" want a nuclear war, and they are too few in number and not in positions of power.
IK keeps talking about nuclear war because he is being ignored and he hopes the idea of a nuclear war will get him attention.
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Another lol.
Those highlighting Indian politicians supporting rape and Indian committing rape in Kashmir, are promoting nuclear war against India?
That’s about 220 million Pakistani.
This self righteous duffer who try to come off of as a preacher, this part is the best one “if you don’t do this then I can’t help you”, lol, and run away when cornered while calling names believe only few Pakistani are highlighting facts regarding crime committed by Indian government and Army.
Big lol.
Those highlighting Indian politicians supporting rape and Indian committing rape in Kashmir, are promoting nuclear war against India?
That’s about 220 million Pakistani.
This self righteous duffer who try to come off of as a preacher, this part is the best one “if you don’t do this then I can’t help you”, lol, and run away when cornered while calling names believe only few Pakistani are highlighting facts regarding crime committed by Indian government and Army.
Big lol.
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What time (GMT) will Imran Khan speak in UN today? Thank you.
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Not close at all but doesnt mean someone in India may take a step based upon their own hype of military might
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Still no war - the keyboard warriors and those who pretend to have top level inside sources who claim that the missiles are being deployed as we speak must be disheartened.
Despite the chest thumping from both sides of the border deep down they both know they cannot afford a war - Pakistan's economy has only just been pulled off the edge of a cliff and India's economic slowdown could easily turn into a full blown recession if they're not careful.
What kind of fool would actually want a war right now or in the foreseeable future?
Despite the chest thumping from both sides of the border deep down they both know they cannot afford a war - Pakistan's economy has only just been pulled off the edge of a cliff and India's economic slowdown could easily turn into a full blown recession if they're not careful.
What kind of fool would actually want a war right now or in the foreseeable future?
War can still happen if there is a major Pak sponsored terrorist attack on India.
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Haven’t posted in a while but boy things were heated here back in august of 2019. And in the end, thankfully, nothing major happened. Good job internet armchair generals (many of whom live thousands of miles away from any potential war zone) don’t have an actual say when it comes to Indo-Pak affairs.
India changed the status of Kashmir and despite all the chest thumping, tweets, and statements from Rawalpindi and elsewhere there were no real consequences to this (and to be fair the Indian side haven’t seen their delusional economic and developmental gains yet either).
India changed the status of Kashmir and despite all the chest thumping, tweets, and statements from Rawalpindi and elsewhere there were no real consequences to this (and to be fair the Indian side haven’t seen their delusional economic and developmental gains yet either).
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Pompeo says US averted nuclear war between India, Pakistan
Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo wrote in a book published Tuesday that India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and that US intervention prevented escalation.
“I do not think the world properly knows just how close the India-Pakistan rivalry came to spilling over into a nuclear conflagration in February 2019,” the likely future presidential contender wrote in “Never Give an Inch,” his memoir of his time as Donald Trump’s top diplomat and earlier CIA chief.
India in February 2019 broke the precedent by launching airstrikes inside Pakistani territory after blaming a militant group there for a suicide bombing that killed 41 Indian paramilitary soldiers in the flashpoint Kashmir region. Pakistan shot down an Indian warplane, capturing the pilot.
Pompeo, who was in Hanoi for a summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said he was woken up with an urgent call from a senior Indian official. “He believed the Pakistanis had begun to prepare their nuclear weapons for a strike. India, he informed me, was contemplating its own escalation,” Pompeo wrote. “I asked him to do nothing and give us a minute to sort things out,” Pompeo said.
Pompeo said that US diplomats convinced both India and Pakistan that neither was preparing to go nuclear. “No other nation could have done what we did that night to avoid a horrible outcome,” Pompeo wrote.
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https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/1034018-pompeo-says-us-averted-nuclear-war-between-india-pakistan
Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo wrote in a book published Tuesday that India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and that US intervention prevented escalation.
“I do not think the world properly knows just how close the India-Pakistan rivalry came to spilling over into a nuclear conflagration in February 2019,” the likely future presidential contender wrote in “Never Give an Inch,” his memoir of his time as Donald Trump’s top diplomat and earlier CIA chief.
India in February 2019 broke the precedent by launching airstrikes inside Pakistani territory after blaming a militant group there for a suicide bombing that killed 41 Indian paramilitary soldiers in the flashpoint Kashmir region. Pakistan shot down an Indian warplane, capturing the pilot.
Pompeo, who was in Hanoi for a summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said he was woken up with an urgent call from a senior Indian official. “He believed the Pakistanis had begun to prepare their nuclear weapons for a strike. India, he informed me, was contemplating its own escalation,” Pompeo wrote. “I asked him to do nothing and give us a minute to sort things out,” Pompeo said.
Pompeo said that US diplomats convinced both India and Pakistan that neither was preparing to go nuclear. “No other nation could have done what we did that night to avoid a horrible outcome,” Pompeo wrote.
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https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/1034018-pompeo-says-us-averted-nuclear-war-between-india-pakistan
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Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan said he’s confident of returning to power this year, and would back a continued role for the International Monetary Fund to prop up the economy and stave off a growing risk of a debt default.
The former cricket star, who was removed from office in a confidence vote last year, said in an interview that he expects to win a majority when elections are held — likely sometime after August. He said he’s preparing a “radical” plan to shore up an economy that he predicts will be in even worse shape by then.
“If we get into power, we won’t have much time,” the 70-year-old Khan said at his residence in Lahore in Punjab province, where he’s recovering from a leg injury sustained when he was shot at a protest in November. Asked if his plan would involve sticking with the IMF — whose accord for about $6.5 billion of lending to Pakistan has seen multiple delays — he said: “We have no choice now.”
The South Asian nation slid dangerously close to a debt default in recent months, driving its bond yields to distressed levels, as IMF loan payments were held up. Khan’s successor, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, has been wary of the fund’s demands, like raising energy prices and taxes. Pakistan’s foreign-exchange reserves have slumped by half since October, and they’re now insufficient to pay for one month’s imports.
The country is also still reeling from the impact catastrophic flooding last year, and suffering from surging inflation.
“We will have to make policies like never before in our country,” Khan said. “We fear a Sri Lanka-type situation,” he said, referring to the default in Pakistan’s regional neighbor.
He said he would reappoint Shaukat Tarin as finance minister, after he held the post in the previous Khan administration.
Khan has taken to the streets since he was pushed out of office, leading protests aimed at pushing Sharif’s government to call early elections.
In one of his government’s last major decisions, Khan lowered fuel prices — triggering a dispute that stalled the IMF program. The ex-premier said his decision was based on getting discounted fuel from Russia. Khan was in Moscow for a previously scheduled visit on the day Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year. In a three-hour conversation, President Vladimir Putin vowed to help Pakistan with energy supplies, Khan said in the interview.
He said he’ll pursue an independent foreign policy that doesn’t lean on any single country such as the US or China. He gave the example of arch-rival India, which has amicable relations with the US but still imports discounted oil from Russia and trades with China.
Khan said he enjoyed an excellent relationship with former President Donald Trump, but ties deteriorated under his successor. “It’s only when Joe Biden came along that for some reason I found that there was reluctance there,” he said, adding that he believes that happened because the US needed someone to blame for its exit from Afghanistan.
Political Outsider
Khan came to power in 2018 as an outsider in a country where politics has been largely dominated by dynasties and the powerful army. While his rise to the premiership was seen as having the blessing of the military establishment, his exit was marked by a breakdown of that relationship.
In his latest pressure tactic to push for snap polls, the former cricket star’s allies dissolved two of the nation’s four provincial assemblies. That has triggered elections in those provinces, which historically have been held in parallel with a nationwide vote.
Khan said he believes national elections may be rigged to keep him out of power. He referred to his removal from office as “regime-change,” and said that Sharif’s governing coalition and some members of the country’s establishment are “scared” because “they were part of the regime-change. We know exactly who was responsible for it.”
Pakistan’s government spokesman and the army’s media wing didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Khan’s remarks.
Personal Security
Khan, who has heavy security outside his residence, said he still believes his life is in danger. He has blamed Prime Minister Sharif and an intelligence officer for the November attack. Both have denied the claim.
“Right now I’m afraid, I have powerful enemies,” said Khan. “The entire political status quo is against me.”
Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said early Wednesday that there were reports circulating that the former premier could get arrested. News reports said a senior party leader Fawad Chaudhry had been detained by security officials. The police complaint accused of Chaudhry of threatening senior officials of the Election Commission, the report said.
Video footage surfaced on social media showing supporters gathering just outside Khan’s residence in Lahore following an appeal by his party to protect him from security forces, highlighting his widespread popularity.
“They have to go through the courageous females and youth to get through to Kaptaan at Zaman Park!” the party said in tweet referring to Khan who was once the captain of the Pakistani cricket team. “Pakistanis are brave and determined, Lahore now belongs to Kaptaan.”
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The former cricket star, who was removed from office in a confidence vote last year, said in an interview that he expects to win a majority when elections are held — likely sometime after August. He said he’s preparing a “radical” plan to shore up an economy that he predicts will be in even worse shape by then.
“If we get into power, we won’t have much time,” the 70-year-old Khan said at his residence in Lahore in Punjab province, where he’s recovering from a leg injury sustained when he was shot at a protest in November. Asked if his plan would involve sticking with the IMF — whose accord for about $6.5 billion of lending to Pakistan has seen multiple delays — he said: “We have no choice now.”
The South Asian nation slid dangerously close to a debt default in recent months, driving its bond yields to distressed levels, as IMF loan payments were held up. Khan’s successor, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, has been wary of the fund’s demands, like raising energy prices and taxes. Pakistan’s foreign-exchange reserves have slumped by half since October, and they’re now insufficient to pay for one month’s imports.
The country is also still reeling from the impact catastrophic flooding last year, and suffering from surging inflation.
“We will have to make policies like never before in our country,” Khan said. “We fear a Sri Lanka-type situation,” he said, referring to the default in Pakistan’s regional neighbor.
He said he would reappoint Shaukat Tarin as finance minister, after he held the post in the previous Khan administration.
Khan has taken to the streets since he was pushed out of office, leading protests aimed at pushing Sharif’s government to call early elections.
In one of his government’s last major decisions, Khan lowered fuel prices — triggering a dispute that stalled the IMF program. The ex-premier said his decision was based on getting discounted fuel from Russia. Khan was in Moscow for a previously scheduled visit on the day Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year. In a three-hour conversation, President Vladimir Putin vowed to help Pakistan with energy supplies, Khan said in the interview.
He said he’ll pursue an independent foreign policy that doesn’t lean on any single country such as the US or China. He gave the example of arch-rival India, which has amicable relations with the US but still imports discounted oil from Russia and trades with China.
Khan said he enjoyed an excellent relationship with former President Donald Trump, but ties deteriorated under his successor. “It’s only when Joe Biden came along that for some reason I found that there was reluctance there,” he said, adding that he believes that happened because the US needed someone to blame for its exit from Afghanistan.
Political Outsider
Khan came to power in 2018 as an outsider in a country where politics has been largely dominated by dynasties and the powerful army. While his rise to the premiership was seen as having the blessing of the military establishment, his exit was marked by a breakdown of that relationship.
In his latest pressure tactic to push for snap polls, the former cricket star’s allies dissolved two of the nation’s four provincial assemblies. That has triggered elections in those provinces, which historically have been held in parallel with a nationwide vote.
Khan said he believes national elections may be rigged to keep him out of power. He referred to his removal from office as “regime-change,” and said that Sharif’s governing coalition and some members of the country’s establishment are “scared” because “they were part of the regime-change. We know exactly who was responsible for it.”
Pakistan’s government spokesman and the army’s media wing didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Khan’s remarks.
Personal Security
Khan, who has heavy security outside his residence, said he still believes his life is in danger. He has blamed Prime Minister Sharif and an intelligence officer for the November attack. Both have denied the claim.
“Right now I’m afraid, I have powerful enemies,” said Khan. “The entire political status quo is against me.”
Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said early Wednesday that there were reports circulating that the former premier could get arrested. News reports said a senior party leader Fawad Chaudhry had been detained by security officials. The police complaint accused of Chaudhry of threatening senior officials of the Election Commission, the report said.
Video footage surfaced on social media showing supporters gathering just outside Khan’s residence in Lahore following an appeal by his party to protect him from security forces, highlighting his widespread popularity.
“They have to go through the courageous females and youth to get through to Kaptaan at Zaman Park!” the party said in tweet referring to Khan who was once the captain of the Pakistani cricket team. “Pakistanis are brave and determined, Lahore now belongs to Kaptaan.”
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