Pakistan: 'Attack on Iran will be construed as attack on us'

[Officer of Engineers]

Any scarrier than Mao Tse-Tung with a God complex?

[lwarmonger]

Any scarrier than Mao Tse-Tung with a God complex?

And we should all remember our good friend Kim Jong Il. In some ways, Pakistan with an extremist Muslim government would be preferable to Pakistan the way it is now. At least under militant Islam, the government would probably exercise better control over its program than Mushy seems to have.

[-{SpoonmaN}-]

Since no one's going to be invading Iran this doesnt matter. At most Military action will take the form of punitive strikes on their nuclear facilities and military bases, because the USA cannot politically, militarily or financially afford to invade Iran.

[indianguy4u]

Since no one's going to be invading Iran this doesnt matter. At most Military action will take the form of punitive strikes on their nuclear facilities and military bases, because the USA cannot politically, militarily or financially afford to invade Iran.

I believe US can invade iran. But whats stopping them isnt money or politics but fatigue of soldiers in iraq. Arms industries profits on war rather than peace & US has huge arms industry. They will surely like to sell more arms to pentagon & increase their R&D spendings.

[Lunatock]

Concur. Once he dies or loses power, it passes over to an Islamic fundamentalist state. It will be interesting to see whether that state focuses it's energy upon Afghanistan or India.

With Musharraf out of power chances are that the areas of Pakistan controlled by the Pakistani Military would still be under Pakistani Military control, a power grabbing fluke by the Islamists aside.

[lwarmonger]

I believe US can invade iran. But whats stopping them isnt money or politics but fatigue of soldiers in iraq. Arms industries profits on war rather than peace & US has huge arms industry. They will surely like to sell more arms to pentagon & increase their R&D spendings.

However, it isn't the arms industry that declares war (or votes to support "military action" as happened with Iraq)... it's congress that does. I think that you overestimate the power that the US military industrial complex has over the government.

[Ray]

Since when has the voice of the illiterate ever been the voice of a nation? A portion of the voice perhaps, but not anything more than that. And as the poverty, illiteracy and other HD levels decrease, the voice of the mullah will also dwindle.

And what evidence do you have that most Pakistanis view an attack on Iran as an attack on Pakistan? I thought you believed that all sunnis hated shias...Isn't Iran an infidel country then?

The voice of the illiterate is the voice of the people and the voice of the people is the voice of the Ballot Box!

However, the voice of the people or the voice of the Ballot box is not material since rigging of the ballot box is a reality. The threads in the Asian sub forum is indicative of the mass rigging that took place by the govt, so much so federal ministers themselves protested against the govt in the Parliament.

When Islam is involved against the "Great White Satan" and their western friends, then the Sunnis and Shias join ranks. ;)

[Commando]

Pakistan is stable but only under the leadership of Musharraf. I see his leadership as scaringly fragile due to the cartoon violence at the moment. Without Musharraf or if a stupid coup succeeds, Islamic extremeists will have control of 80 nuclear weapons.

The thing is though, that if an attack happens on Iran. Pre emptive air strikes or all out invasion. No matter. The riots around the muslim world today over the cartoons will look like an ant from a satellite compared to what will happen.

Any attack on Iran could lead to a holy war.

which would involve:

1)all muslim countries being annihilated by the nuclear weapons of Israel and the USA

[sparten]

Pakistan is stable but only under the leadership of Musharraf. I see his leadership as scaringly fragile due to the cartoon violence at the moment. Without Musharraf or if a stupid coup succeeds, Islamic extremeists will have control of 80 nuclear weapons.

The thing is though, that if an attack happens on Iran. Pre emptive air strikes or all out invasion. No matter. The riots around the muslim world today over the cartoons will look like an ant from a satellite compared to what will happen.

Any attack on Iran could lead to a holy war.

which would involve:

1)all muslim countries being annihilated by the nuclear weapons of Israel and the USA

Islamic extremists taking over Pakistan? Tell me what other fairy tales you have been reading.

[Dreadnought]

Pakistan is stable but only under the leadership of Musharraf. I see his leadership as scaringly fragile due to the cartoon violence at the moment. Without Musharraf or if a stupid coup succeeds, Islamic extremeists will have control of 80 nuclear weapons.

The thing is though, that if an attack happens on Iran. Pre emptive air strikes or all out invasion. No matter. The riots around the muslim world today over the cartoons will look like an ant from a satellite compared to what will happen.

Any attack on Iran could lead to a holy war.

which would involve:

1)all muslim countries being annihilated by the nuclear weapons of Israel and the USA

No offense man but just how do you draw that conclusion? The U.S. and Israel are not innialiators of mankind and or religions that they dont agree with if anything they want them to get along better then they have and be peaceful. Alot of things need to be worked out amongst them but nothing is impossible. If the U.S. did that it would make us as bad as Germany in WWII and no American is ever going to support that idea. Hell you would have riots here if that ever happened.

[Dreadnought]

The voice of the illiterate is the voice of the people and the voice of the people is the voice of the Ballot Box!

However, the voice of the people or the voice of the Ballot box is not material since rigging of the ballot box is a reality. The threads in the Asian sub forum is indicative of the mass rigging that took place by the govt, so much so federal ministers themselves protested against the govt in the Parliament.

When Islam is involved against the "Great White Satan" and their western friends, then the Sunnis and Shias join ranks. ;)

The great question is why cant they do that and live in peace together without injecting the "Great White Satan" into it as excuse to work together.

[GrayDonkey]

Excellent.

Pakistan's national anthem is in Persian too.

[sparten]

Excellent.

Pakistan's national anthem is in Persian too.

Out of neccesity rather than design.

[GrayDonkey]

design, necessity and aesthetics.

blood is thicker than water and pakistan sure has a lot of iranic blood and heritage. Most middle age educated pakistanis can speak at least broken Persian.

[sparten]

design, necessity and aesthetics.

blood is thicker than water and pakistan sure has a lot of iranic blood and heritage. Most middle age educated pakistanis can speak at least broken Persian.

Not really true. While Urdu is very similar to Persian, remember two things

1) Most people use their regional language at home

2) And English at work.

Urdu is mostly in the marketplace.