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>Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0410) >Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:37:14 +0000 >Subject: FW: PAKISTAN MILITARY WARNS OF NUCLEAR CONFLICT WITH INDIA >From: "farbuthnot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sandeep, this alarming piece fits with your Kashmir Times one. warmest, >felicity. >Subj: Pakistan warns of nuclear conflict with India! >Date: 12/25/2001 7:08:28 AM Pacific Standard Time >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent from the Internet (Details) > > > > > > _______ ____ ______ > / |/ / /___/ / /_ // M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S >/ /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East >/_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\ http://www.MiddleEast.Org > > News, Information, & Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, > and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! > IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! > =========================== > To receive MER regularly with our compliments: > http://www.MiddleEast.Org/subscribe > =========================== > > > > > > > > "a small little incident can result in a chain > reaction which nobody will be able to control... > [and] become really horrific for the entire world." > Brigadier General Mohammad Yaqub > >MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 12/25/2001: As in >Palestine, the Kashmir conflict originally resulted from Western policies >in the last century. Now both conflicts threaten to explode into wars of >mass destruction in this century. > It is now only a few years since both India and Pakistan first tested > their nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. Israel and India have a > long-time still mostly secret military connection and unsuccessfully > attempted in the 1980s and early 1990s to undermine and destroy the > Pakistani nuclear program -- the "Muslim bomb" project. The Israelis -- > themselves with a military capability said to be many times greater than > that of all the Arab countries combined -- have made no secret of their > desire to destroy the advanced weapons programs in Iran, Iraq, Libya and > Pakistan; the Syrians are said to be arming with chemical and biological > weapons to deter the Israelis; and the Egyptian military is also > preparing. Meanwhile Israel has also secretly outfitted three > submarines, acquired in recent years from Germany after firm assurances > they would not be used in this way, with nuclear weapons in a kind of > doomsday nuclear deterrent scenario. > Within this vortex of world events, the Americans, continually > prodded by the infamous Israeli/Jewish lobby, are themselves now turning > the events of 911 and the pursuit of Bin Laden/Al Queida into a worldwide > war against all opposition to their imperial "new world order". Using > the simplistic slogan of a "war against terrorism", one who origins and > concepts are clearly with the Israelis, covert and military U.S. actions > can be expected against many countries in the year ahead. Palestinian > opposition to Israeli occupation, along with Pakistani opposition to > terribly brutal Indian policies in Kashmir, have all been lumped together > by the Americans with no sense or concern it appears for the very nature > of these complex conflicts. In the new world of "you are either with us > or against us" a few purposefully or mistaken sparks could in fact ignite > an entire region, even the entire world. > > > > > > > > PAKISTAN MILITARY WARNS OF NUCLEAR CONFLICT WITH INDIA > By Raja Asghar > >CHAKOTHI, Pakistan (Reuters - 25 December ) - A senior Pakistani army >officer said on Monday continued border clashes with India could spark an >uncontrollable flareup involving nuclear weapons. > >The two neighbours have reinforced positions on either side of their >disputed border in Kashmir since a December 13 suicide attack on the >Indian parliament which killed 14 people. New Delhi blamed two militant >groups based in Muslim Pakistan. > >Local sources said on Monday that Pakistan's army had deployed >anti-aircraft guns and moved most troops from the eastern garrison town of >Sialkot to the border with India. > >Pakistani and Indian troops only watched each other with distrust from >bunkers on either side of a broken bridge at Chakothi in the west of >disputed Kashmir when a group of journalists visited the Pakistani side of >the front line. > >But both sides reported exchanges of fresh mortar and heavy machinegun >fire elsewhere in Kashmir and New Delhi expelled a Pakistani diplomat, >raising tensions between the nuclear-armed adversaries ever higher. > >Pakistani Brigadier Mohammad Yaqub said the situation was "highly >explosive". "Because in that situation, that tension, even a small >little incident can result in a chain reaction which nobody will be able >to control," he told Reuters Television at >Muzaffarabad, capital of the Pakistani-held part of Kashmir. > >He said an all-out war between the two nations could "become really >horrific for the entire world". > >Asked if nuclear weapons could be used, Yaqub, giving what he called his >personal view, said: > >"But if there is a war between the two countries and if any country feels >that it comes to its own survival, probably there won't be any hesitation >to use nuclear weapons." > >A brief statement from the military's public relations department said the >top-brass of Pakistan's armed forces met in the garrison town of >Rawalpindi and "discussed matters relating to defence, national security >and professional aspects". > >A source in Sialkot, just a few miles from the border in Pakistan's >eastern Punjab province, said most of the troops had left the cantonment. > >"The movement of troops to and from the border has increased. It is more >than in routine times," he said. > >Artillery exchanges have increased recently in the Sharkargarh-Zafarwal >sector of the working boundary, a 220-km (136-mile) stretch of border >between the line of control dividing mountainous Kashmir, and the frontier >that runs down the plains in an eastward direction up to the Arabian Sea. > >A senior local official in Sialkot said the army movements to and from the >border had "not been very obvious," but declined to go into detail. > >New Delhi accuses Pakistan of fomenting a decade-old revolt in >Muslim-majority Kashmir. Pakistan denies sponsoring the rebellion, saying >it only provides moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri struggle for >self-determination. > >Kashmir's main separatist alliance, the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) >Conference, asked the two nations to exercise restraint in the region, >which has triggered two of the three wars they have fought since >independence from Britain in 1947. > > > > > > > > -------------------------- > MiD-EasT RealitieS - http://www.MiddleEast.Org > Phone: (202) 362-5266 > Fax: (815) 366-0800 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To subscribe to MER with our compliments email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with subject SUBSCRIBE > >To unsubscribe email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject UNSUBSCRIBE > > > > > ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
