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2008-02-05 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2008-02-05 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1742 views ] Top
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1 Pakistan is a failed state and concept.

Posted by 3dc 2008-02-05 01:47|| 2008-02-05 01:47|| Front Page Top

2 Similar to Iran, another failed British attempt at geography redistribution resulting from the partition of India.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-02-05 03:48|| 2008-02-05 03:48|| Front Page Top

3 Correction.... Iraq, bitte.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-02-05 03:48|| 2008-02-05 03:48|| Front Page Top

4 Bes, AFAICR, the British had no hand in partitioning the subcontinent. That was entirely the natives' fault.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-02-05 06:01|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2008-02-05 06:01|| Front Page Top

5 Actually Jinnah had many British supporters. He never spent a single day in jail, a remarkable feat for an Indian independence leader (even Nehru's old mother was locked up) until you consider that he was free to mobilize Muslims for partition while everyone else was in prison.

The British partitioned Bengal in 1905, creating a Muslim majority East Bengal (basically modern Bangladesh).

Sir Olaf Caroe's idea of "Pahkistan" (specifically the NWFP, Balochistan and Sindh... he didn't care for Bengal) acting as a great wall protecting the middle east from a future India occupied by the Russian bear found favor among many in Britain.

There are parallels between the tacit support for Operation Storm in 1995 and the September 1947 (post partition!) violence in the Punjab that ethnically cleansed Pakistan of its Hindu and Sikh population.

Posted by john frum 2008-02-05 07:09|| 2008-02-05 07:09|| Front Page Top

6 Says it all...

Posted by john frum 2008-02-05 11:30|| 2008-02-05 11:30|| Front Page Top

7 Could I file this as some of the Operational Advice advocated by some British policy maker(s)?

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-02-05 12:39|| 2008-02-05 12:39|| Front Page Top

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