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Regional consensus: Islamabad tells ‘external actors’ not to meddle with Kabul!

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You can't force people to vote. Besides voter participation was at its highest above 60 %, more than in any other election since 1970!

where? def not in east Pak.. it has almost the same number/percentage of voters as baluchistan.

From where Indira entered in this analogy?

poetic justice... all the main players died horrible deaths. karma?
 
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I think Afghanistan should be telling this not Pakistan.Pakistan telling afghan people about economics and finances are like "bald men talking about a good hairstyle".Don't worry Pakistan we will not leave any stone unturned for development of India-Afghan relation and will make peaceful neighborhood of Pakistan(of course we can not assure you about peace in Pakistan)
 
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where? def not in east Pak.. it has almost the same number/percentage of voters as baluchistan.
East Pakistan had majority of voters by population in 1970!
Results
Party Votes % Seats
Awami League 12,937,162 39.2 160
Pakistan Peoples Party 6,148,923 18.6 81
Jamaat-e-Islami 1,989,461 6.0 4
PML (Council) 1,965,689 6.0 2
PML (Qayyum) 1,473,749 4.5 9
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam 1,315,071 4.0 7
Markazi Jamiat-Ulema-Pakistan 1,299,858 3.9 7
PML (Convention) 1,102,815 3.3 7
National Awami Party (Wali) 801,355 2.4 6
Pakistan Democratic Party 737,958 2.2 1
Other parties 387,919 1.2 0
Independents 2,322,341 7.0 16
Total 33,004,065 100 300
Nohlen et al.
Pakistani general election, 1970 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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poetic justice... all the main players died horrible deaths. karma?

Actually, she was hero. She done, which every nationalist do for his country. Yes, she made some major blunders, but after his death people actually cried for her death,
 
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definitely bcoz EP had a larger population than Pak... but only 33+% voter turned out .... in East Pak... almost similiar percentage as Baluchistan...
It doesn't matter. Its the overall votes that count. You know it :D
 
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Actually, she was hero. She done, which every nationalist do for his country. Yes, she made some major blunders, but after his death people actually cried for her death,

good for those who cried for her.. but many cheered at her death aswell?


But cheers or "crying" have no effect on the dead. otherwise Bhutto is still ideolised...
 
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Nobody will meddle when those external actors happen to be your good and bad Taliban :D
 
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While relationship improved with Iran and Afghanistan, Aziz said, the Modi government in India was not forthcoming to Pakistan’s overtures. PHOTO: REUTERS

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has called for a regional consensus among the ‘external actors’ to agree on non-interference in the internal matters of Afghanistan, fearing that the war-torn country may be used for ‘proxy war’ in the post-US withdrawal period.

“The external actors would have to agree on a regional consensus on non-interference,” said Prime Minister’s Advisor on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz in a policy statement on Wednesday while addressing the conference at the National Defence University.

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Pakistan is increasingly concerned that growing influence of India inside Afghanistan could be detrimental to its interests in the region.

There are concerns that Pakistan and India could engage in a proxy war in Afghanistan once the US completely pulls out of the war-ravaged country.

In his address, Aziz urged the international community for not repeating the mistake of the past.

“We believe this precious moment of hope and optimism in Afghanistan must be defended, by not repeating the mistakes of the past. International community’s continuous engagement is a major imperative, since another abandonment of Afghanistan would lead to a repeat of the 1990s,” he stressed.

The PM’s advisor said the new Afghan government must be provided continuous economic and financial support for economic revival and for delivering on its reform agenda.

“All Afghan stakeholders must be convinced that their country would emerge stronger only if they worked with each other, not against each other, to carve out a political settlement,” he contended.

While highlighting the government’s foreign policy vision, he noted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif enunciated “peace for development” as the defining principle of Pakistan’s foreign policy.

Building a peaceful neighbourhood and a rebalancing between geo-strategic and geo-economic priorities constitute the main pillars of this policy, he added.

Aziz maintained that the government has embarked on resolute efforts to create a peaceful external and internal environment, so that the core national objective of economic development is robustly advanced.

However, he emphasised that the vision of a peaceful neighbourhood cannot be realised without a qualitative transformation in our relationships with Afghanistan, India and Iran.

While relationship improved with Iran and Afghanistan, Aziz said, the Modi government in India was not forthcoming to Pakistan’s overtures.

“India unfortunately has not reciprocated our outreach. The cancellation of foreign secretary-level talks by India on the pretext of our High Commissioner’s meeting with Kashmiri leaders was found unconvincing worldwide,” he said.

The PM’s advisor cautioned that any efforts by India towards unilaterally altering the status of Kashmir would further compound the already complicated situation.

“Unprovoked and indiscriminate firing and shelling from across the Line of Control and the Working Boundary, with Indian leadership threatening disproportionate use of force, portend India’s dangerous desire to create a space for war,” he said.

Aziz said Pakistan appreciates US interest in South Asia and expects it to play a constructive role for strategic stability and balance in the region by allowing space and resources to focus on the objectives of economic development and poverty reduction and reduce the possibility of a reinvigorated arms race in the sub-continent.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 12th, 2015.
Regional consensus: Islamabad tells ‘external actors’ not to meddle with Kabul – The Express Tribune

This is a joke right? Isn't Pakistan meddling in Afghani affairs by dictating who they should be friends with or not? :D

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Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the Indian government and people of India have supported the stabilization and reconstruction of Afghanistan. India has till date disbursed over $2 billion worth of effective assistance to Afghanistan - The largest amount from any country without a military presence in Afghanistan. India is currently the largest regional donor of humanitarian aid and reconstruction efforts in post-Taliban Afghanistan.

India’s aid has reached large parts of Afghanistan and improved the lives of many Afghans. Through major infrastructure projects, India has helped connect Afghanistan internally and with the region, facilitating cross-border transit, trade and investment. And through small rural development projects, India has addressed the problem of impoverished communities across Afghanistan, in line with the objectives of the Afghan government.

In the meantime, thousands of Afghans have benefited from India’s higher education and technical training assistance programs. These has helped build institutional capacity in the Afghan government and private sector, preparing Afghans to drive the country’s development.

India's growing influence in Afghanistan has upset Pakistan and other pro-Taliban elements. The Times said in an editorial that with the United States and other NATO members unwilling to sustain long-term commitments to Afghanistan, the Taliban see India as the only regional enemy capable of resisting them.

But then it's up to Afghanistan to decide as to whether from whom they will seek a close partnership in resurrecting their nation. Sure Pakistan has a big role to play in its resurrection after the allied forces leave but then to think India should abandon all what it has been and is doing right now in favor some other country's "interests" is just wishful thinking.
 
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