How likely is China's launch of a limited war against India? This is the question that has animated South Asia watchers over the last two days ever since reports about the Chinese denial of a visa to a top-ranking three-star Indian army general, whose operational command includes the state of Jammu and Kashmir, became public.

Notwithstanding the very animated media and cyber responses that have spewed on both sides of the Himalayas, as a defence analyst, I would aver that the probability of an actual shooting war, however limited — between the dragon and the elephant — is very, very low but this will not prevent their growling at each other as can be evidenced.

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By Asif Haroon Raja

9/11 dramatically converted Pakistan from an international outcast under a military dictator aligned with extremist Taliban regime in Kabul to become a key strategic partner of America ’s war on terror. This change in status brought about by USA did not come about out of the blue but under a well conceived design. While Afghanistan was already on the hit list of USA since 1997, 9/11 gave a ready made excuse to forcibly occupy it and bring a regime change of its liking and to then work upon the laid down regional objectives.   

In its pursuit to denuclearize and secularize Pakistan , the US in concert with Israel , India and Britain worked out several contingency plans which ranged from coercion combined with inducement to destabilization, balkanization and fragmentation. Gen Musharraf was successfully coerced to ditch friendly Mullah Omar led Taliban regime in Kabul, to help US in militarily occupying Afghanistan, and to become a frontline state to fight US war on terror. Pakistan had to accept anti-Pakistan and pro-India Northern Alliance regime under Hamid Karzai in Kabul.

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It's true that Pakistani players do have a repo of bringing shame to the green but on a closer look and considering the magnitude of the negative coverage received, is the incident another deliberate setup to racially malign and target the Pakistani nation further? The classical "from the book" statement that the bookie gave [Pakistani cricketers only want women, food and money] may hint so. After all, aren't Indian and Aussies and Brits doing the same? Pakistani cricketers aren't the only ones here but get most attention everytime, why? More so, there is an Indian culprit [Dheeraj Dixit] involved too about whom the same media hasn't found the same zeal to talk about. So if Pakistani players want money and food, was he up to it considering it his religious duty? Pakistani players are indeed shameful but may have been set up too this time. Pakistan Observer has some findings here.

http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=49612

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At least four NATO supply oil tankers were completely destroyed by militants Sunday near Torkham in northwest of Pakistan. Militants attacked NATO tankers supply caravan with rockets turning four of them into ashes in Khyber Agency tribal area near Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Xinhua said, citing local media reports. No casualties were reported in the attack.

Attacks on NATO supply truck have been accelerated this year where almost a hundred of trucks and oil tankers carrying supplies to 140,000 US-led NATO troops fighting insurgency in Afghanistan were frequently attacked and destroyed in southern Balochistan and troubled northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

In June, 60 NATO supply trucks were burnt to ashes and eight local drivers were killed in an attack near Islamabad. In April four policemen were killed as 12 NATO trucks were burnt in eastern Punjab province.

Some 70 percent of NATO supplies and 40 percent of its fuel are being shipped through trucks into the landlocked Afghanistan from the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi. Source: All About: Asia,Pakistan

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Informed sources in the Government of Pakistan have told Veterans Today that they are developing “hard evidence” indicating the Air Blue Airbus 320 that crashed July 28th outside Islamabad was a terrorist hijacking tied to rogue American security forces operating inside that country.

Sources indicate that the plane crash was an unsuccessful hijacking attempt intended to crash into the nuclear weapons facility at Kahuta, outside Islamabad. Such an attack may have been blamed on India and would likely have led to retaliation which could easily have escalated to a nuclear exchange between these two nations that have spent decades at each other’s throats.
Suspicions were raised inside Pakistan’s military and intelligence organizations when American military contractors employed by Blackwater/Xe showed up on the scene immediately after the crash, seizing the black box and “other materials.” There is no confirmation that parachutes or electronic equipment had been removed when Blackwater/Xe security relinquished control of the crash scene to Pakistani investigators.

Royal Television in Islamabad, owned by the brother of the head of Pakistan’s powerful JI (Jamate Islami), the Islamic political party, has reported that investigations are underway tying American based contractors to the planning of the attack. Pakistan’s ISRP (Inter-Services Public Relations) has failed to confirm this but private sources indicate that an active investigation of these allegations is, not only underway but has established ties between an American group and the hijackers. Military and intelligence officials inside Pakistan, in concert with the American embassy, are withholding all official details of the investigation and are likely to continue doing so. continue

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Pakistan is reportedly seeking the extradition of Shamim Khan, the who allegedly hurled a shoe at President Asif Ali Zardari during a party rally in Brimingham earlier this month.

According to sources, the interior ministry has provided “criminal records” of Shamim to the British authorities, and asked them to hand him over to Pakistan for further action. “Khan, a resident of Palai Gala, Sehnsa tehsil (occupied Kashmir), has been declared a proclaimed offender in an attempted murder case. In 1993, he injured his opponent and inspector Shadab over an enmity and then managed to flee to UK,” The Dawn quoted sources, as saying.

Earlier, it was reported that it was one of a disgruntled Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) who had hurled the shoe at Zardari, but further investigations have revealed that Shamim had never been associated with the PPP.

“It has been transpired that Khan had never been a PPP worker and he entered the place along with Lord Nazir Ahmed,” a PPP leader said.

The leader, who refused to be named, added that now Shamin claims to be a close associate of PML-N’s (occupied) Kashmir chapter president Raja Farooq Haider. However, Haider has denied any relation with the attacker.

“I would like to ask those who portrayed Khan as a ‘thorough gentleman’ to look into these facts,” Haider said.
Meanwhile, Zardari’s spokesnman, Farhatullah Babar, insisted that no shoe hurling incident took place during Zardari’s rally.
“Therefore there is no question of extradition of anyone,” Babar said. (ANI)

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