Fareed Zakaria and you, in New Jersey, are both US citizens. Both of you have every right to wish for better democratic outcomes inside Pakistan. Blindly ignoring the mess in Pakistan, now and historically, is unwise to keep it polite here.
I do not know what the base salary monthly for a Pakistani Second Lieutenant is (US pay grade equivalent is an 01). However, here is the 2011 monthly basic pay chart for Second Lieutenants in the US military up through a four star General. The small dollar figures under most all monthly...
Russia is a very important source of gas and oil to India. Perhaps you overlooked this point?
President Musharraf was negotiating the proposed oil land gas lines from the "Stans" through Afghanistan into Pakistan, with pipelines in the "plan" to include over to and connecting up with Indian...
The gravity of ISI coverup and outright taking care of and likely using OBL and al Qaida for the ISI purposes is a sad and tragic story of betrayal of the millions of innocent grassroots citizens of Pakistan who do not like nor want al Qaida and it's stooges in their nation any more than we want...
I am very glad we caught this thug. I made this open posting as this story is openly available here in the US and is fair news to discuss. That fact that so very many terrorists exist with ISI support and direction inside Pakistan is paramount but this US story fairly is a collateral story, too.
For your information, the US has captured a terrorist based out of Chicago, who now holds Canadian citizenship but was born in Pakistan.
This story came out today, 5/16/11 in the US Associate Press:
It is a sad state of affairs when contributors to this professional site makes excuses for the fact that Osama bin Laden had been kept safely, protected, by the ISI in Abottabad...a city where a scant 8 years or less ago the violent Taliban tried to assassinate then Pakistan President Musharraf...
saad445566, in response to your post on my three postings on Russia and warm water ports. I am sharing actual history that most younger folks today, whether in the US, Pakistan, India, or elsewhere in today's world are unaware of...the contemporary history of Russia's national quest for war...
Here is a summary of Soviet Army attempts to seize Iranian oil and gas lands during and past the end of WW II in Iran.
The below quotations are found in the article:
THE INVASION OF IRAN BY THE ALLIES DURING
WORLD WAR II
Süleyman Erkan
Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey...
Bridge to victory
November 3, 1997
The Iranian
The following is an excerpt from "On Borrowed Wings" by Robert D. Burgener on the activities of the Allied forces in Iran during World War II. The first of a series of documentary videos on this subject -- "Tales of the Persian Corridor -...
While I was stationed at the old US Embassy in Karachi (used as the US Consulate building now) in January 1965 Foreign Minister Bhutto started a or the rumor that he was told by the USSR Oil and Gas Exploration Team based out of Karachi that they had found natural gas and oil deposits in the...
I am merely one American, retired reserve USAF and retired US Civil Service,a former International Banking Officer in NYC, now for the past 16 years a businessman in my fourth career. Having served in Pakistan 1963-65 at old US Embassy, wounded in Rann of Kutch with an otherwise all Pakistani...
Jawan (from Persian Jawan or Javān, meaning "young") refers to a young man in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, and Punjabi. It can also refer to a "donkey" in the Bengali language. In the Indian subcontinent, it has additionally taken on the reference to an infantryman, and is used in much the same...
Nuclearpak your facts are mistaken. Turkey then and now has US Air Bases on Turkish soil, while US Navy/fleet ships "port" frequently in Turkish seaports.
True, the two side vice plan of ground forces going into Iraq from both the Turkish and Kuwait sides was messed up by the newly infected...
In the US military my saying is that any officer, junior or senior, is only as good as the "Senior sleeves" who work with him. As a new Second Lieutenant, USAF I depended in Pakistan, overseas, for much day to day management by my USAF Master Sergeant. In my reservist end of 31 years active...
In the military the "standard" is battle tested. This does not demean other units who don't see or whose purpose never was to be in battle, various background support units.
As a young USAF Lieutenant based out of the old US Embassy then in Karachi, West Pakistan, I became friends with British Brigadier (Acting) Panton, RA, who had formerly been a Colonel of Gurkhas. Brigadier Panton had a daughter close to my age. He (the Brigadier) invited me to many of his...
Chomsky is an academic nut case who does not like the fact that he is an ethnic Jew and speaks as if he were a Gentile. Disgustisng piece of human trash, it is amazing that academia has tolerated him.
Please note two posts prior The fact of using terrorists as "reserve forces" against and inside Kashmir has been cited factually in numerous posts within PDF. We are past quibbling over the raw facts now.
In my day, long ago, 1963-65, the Paksitan Army War College was and I believe today...