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  • Transit rights for troops in Afghanistan: NATO seeks closer ties with Pakistan

    http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...-5-2006_pg7_13

    Yet, Pakistan aint doing enough!

    BRUSSELS: NATO is negotiating with Pakistan to ensure transit rights for its troops in Afghanistan as the Western alliance expands its Afghan peacekeeping mission into the restive border region between the two countries, an official said on Wednesday.

    “As the alliance moves ... south, Pakistan plays an important role,” NATO chief spokesman James Appathurai said. “It’s important that we do have these political and military ties.”

    The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan is expanding from its bases in the north and west into southern Afghanistan, largely replacing the US-led forces there. The alliance plans to complete its expansion later this year by also moving its peacekeepers into the eastern sector.

    Both regions share a long and volatile border with Pakistan.

    Appathurai told reporters such transit arrangements may be completed soon following talks in Pakistan in recent days between President Gen Pervez Musharraf and a senior NATO delegation.

    “Pakistan of course wants ISAF to succeed,” Appathurai said. “And they are certainly looking at this in a very positive sense, so I expect it will be concluded without delay.”

    As part of the plan to fortify ties, NATO aims to post a liaison officer in Islamabad and will offer places at its elite military schools in Europe to Pakistani officers, Appathurai said.

    NATO already has transit arrangements with former Soviet republics north of Afghanistan to support its peacekeeping operation, but has no such deal to date with Pakistan. However, it has developed closer relations with Islamabad since sending hundreds of military engineers and medics to Azad Kashmir to help with the aftermath of last year’s earthquake disaster.

    Appathurai said the expansion of NATO’s mission in Afghanistan would mean the alliance would need to build contacts with other nations in the region such as India or China. AP

  • #2
    “As the alliance moves ... south, Pakistan plays an important role,” NATO chief spokesman James Appathurai said. “It’s important that we do have these political and military ties.”
    Whoa, a Tamil guy in NATO!! :)
    A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam !!

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Jay
      Whoa, a Tamil guy in NATO!! :)
      Should be of mixed parentage but a Tamil nevertheless
      Seek Save Serve Medic

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Jay
        Whoa, a Tamil guy in NATO!! :)
        Aaiyoyoy!
        (Translation: oh lala?)

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        • #5
          Medicji, did the bleach the guy? He's shining like a mirror, atleast his head is..

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          • #6
            Medic dude,

            Tamils can look like this, you are from Coimbatore, arent you ;)

            But yeah the Christian name suggests like a mixed parentage :)
            A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam !!

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            • #7
              Damn he looks like Lex Luthor!

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              • #8
                Ok tracked him down. His parents were Edward Appathurai (Srilankan Tamil, worked for Srilankan Foreign Service) and Carol (white Canadian).

                :)
                A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam !!

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                • #9
                  Where can you not find malbaris, Jay?

                  Omer Sharif once remarked, Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon, and was really happy he was the first man on the moon, suddenly he was tapped on the back and heard someone say "Randay chai parcel, illay?" :D (2 Cups of tea, no?)

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                  • #10
                    dude, tamils are not malabaris!
                    A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam !!

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                    • #11
                      hmmmmm true true...

                      Very similar though. I was explained the difference by one of our college campus's security gaurds once... Went over my head. (The differences he explained were behavioral not ethnic).

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                      • #12
                        tamils are different from malabaris, culturally and ethnically. They used to be tamils some 1000 years back.

                        so, tamils are not malabaris.
                        A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam !!

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                        • #13
                          Anyway check this out...

                          Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor in the TV series, Smallville:

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Asim Aquil
                            Yet, Pakistan aint doing enough!
                            When it comes to conflict, one can never do enough...
                            No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
                            I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
                            even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
                            He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Asim Aquil
                              Anyway check this out...

                              Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor in the TV series, Smallville:

                              Hes jewish isnt he?
                              He looks jewish.

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