What terrorism are WE fighting?
"Pakistan and India in terror vow
A total of 166 people died in the attacks in Mumbai in November 2008
India and Pakistan will work together to fight terrorism, the countries' prime ministers have announced.
Meeting in Egypt, they said the fight against their "main threat" should not be linked to wider peace talks.
However, India's Manmohan Singh later said no dialogue would start until those behind last year's attacks in Mumbai (Bombay) were "brought to book".
Relations between the two countries deteriorated after the attacks in which militants killed more than 160 people.
India has accused Pakistan-based fighters from the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba of carrying out the attacks.
Pakistan has admitted they were partly planned on its soil - and vowed to do all it can to bring the suspects to justice.
Prime Ministers Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan and Manmohan Singh of India made the pledge after meeting in Egypt.
The talks on Thursday - on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement's summit in Egypt - were the third high-level meeting between the two nuclear-armed neighbours since the Mumbai attacks last November which brought an abrupt halt to peace talks. "
(BBC news)
Analysis by BBCs Jill McGivering
"Broadly speaking the prime ministers emerged in positive mood. Both sides found agreement on some basic principles.
Crucially, they also agreed to separate their debate about action on terrorism from more general dialogue. That was a key demand from Pakistan - and may make it possible for the mechanism of talks to be revived, independent of India's continuing demands for tougher action on militant groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group India blames for the Mumbai attacks.
That apparent concession from India was offset by some tough statements on terrorism. Mr Singh has to face an Indian public which is still angry about the Mumbai attacks and frustrated that, so far, Pakistan has done little to convict those responsible."
Just a thought...how much did the G8/WTO (tag whatever label applies to the global stakeholders) moneylenders have to cough up to Pakistan and India coffers to "encourage" them to agree to this facade. In the epoch of fear-mongering over weaponry of mass destruction (remember WMD), these countries are both permitted the sacrament of being nuclear "friendly", and at the same time, Pakistan overlooks the will to bring the Mumbai bombers to justice for murdering 166 people, while India concedes to abstain from badgering the PAKI wheels of justice.
The question that begs to be answered, especially with the absence of any Pakistani will for justice in India is; How did the "wardens of the war on terror" allow these tribal enemies (borders in this region were only initiated after World War 1) to manifest and, all the while smear-mongering, perpetuated an invasion in Iraq for harbouring some elusive weapons of mass destruction. Is anyone disturbed about the pointedly intrusive actions taken, that revolved around some adversely suspect intentions?
Notwithstanding any stakeholder's influential economic gambit under whomevers' diplomatic umbrella in order to mantain stability, Pakistan (tribal) politics, nuclear friendly or otherwise, is on the verge of collapsing and resurrecting a new governance patented by the Taliban, according to local intel last year. This bizarre drama gives the whole North Korean nuclear unstable existence a whole perverse perspective, doesn't it?
I don't presume to possess any ideas predicating a relationship between the theatrics to all this drama, but, did you catch the 60 Minutes segment last Sunday on US military Delta Force operations? Bin Laden's capture appeared the least of these "wardens" worries beyond public perception, but then again.... has he disappeared or were the "wardens" really looking for him? Charge Bush and Cheney with war crimes so the fear/smear mongering legacy is replaced with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. God Bless America.
I'll be in touch.
A total of 166 people died in the attacks in Mumbai in November 2008
India and Pakistan will work together to fight terrorism, the countries' prime ministers have announced.
Meeting in Egypt, they said the fight against their "main threat" should not be linked to wider peace talks.
However, India's Manmohan Singh later said no dialogue would start until those behind last year's attacks in Mumbai (Bombay) were "brought to book".
Relations between the two countries deteriorated after the attacks in which militants killed more than 160 people.
India has accused Pakistan-based fighters from the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba of carrying out the attacks.
Pakistan has admitted they were partly planned on its soil - and vowed to do all it can to bring the suspects to justice.
Prime Ministers Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan and Manmohan Singh of India made the pledge after meeting in Egypt.
The talks on Thursday - on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement's summit in Egypt - were the third high-level meeting between the two nuclear-armed neighbours since the Mumbai attacks last November which brought an abrupt halt to peace talks. "
(BBC news)
Analysis by BBCs Jill McGivering
"Broadly speaking the prime ministers emerged in positive mood. Both sides found agreement on some basic principles.
Crucially, they also agreed to separate their debate about action on terrorism from more general dialogue. That was a key demand from Pakistan - and may make it possible for the mechanism of talks to be revived, independent of India's continuing demands for tougher action on militant groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group India blames for the Mumbai attacks.
That apparent concession from India was offset by some tough statements on terrorism. Mr Singh has to face an Indian public which is still angry about the Mumbai attacks and frustrated that, so far, Pakistan has done little to convict those responsible."
Just a thought...how much did the G8/WTO (tag whatever label applies to the global stakeholders) moneylenders have to cough up to Pakistan and India coffers to "encourage" them to agree to this facade. In the epoch of fear-mongering over weaponry of mass destruction (remember WMD), these countries are both permitted the sacrament of being nuclear "friendly", and at the same time, Pakistan overlooks the will to bring the Mumbai bombers to justice for murdering 166 people, while India concedes to abstain from badgering the PAKI wheels of justice.
The question that begs to be answered, especially with the absence of any Pakistani will for justice in India is; How did the "wardens of the war on terror" allow these tribal enemies (borders in this region were only initiated after World War 1) to manifest and, all the while smear-mongering, perpetuated an invasion in Iraq for harbouring some elusive weapons of mass destruction. Is anyone disturbed about the pointedly intrusive actions taken, that revolved around some adversely suspect intentions?
Notwithstanding any stakeholder's influential economic gambit under whomevers' diplomatic umbrella in order to mantain stability, Pakistan (tribal) politics, nuclear friendly or otherwise, is on the verge of collapsing and resurrecting a new governance patented by the Taliban, according to local intel last year. This bizarre drama gives the whole North Korean nuclear unstable existence a whole perverse perspective, doesn't it?
I don't presume to possess any ideas predicating a relationship between the theatrics to all this drama, but, did you catch the 60 Minutes segment last Sunday on US military Delta Force operations? Bin Laden's capture appeared the least of these "wardens" worries beyond public perception, but then again.... has he disappeared or were the "wardens" really looking for him? Charge Bush and Cheney with war crimes so the fear/smear mongering legacy is replaced with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. God Bless America.
I'll be in touch.
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