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post of 2011
Pakistan suffers $68 bn losses in war on terror
2011
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-New...-war-on-terror
FDI on Anti-Terror Ops ;p
Well...actually not drained. .. $20 billion aid to fight terrorism.. ROLFHats of to the Pakistan & Americans are either too smart or too dumb ..Originally Posted by ANTIBODY
post of 2011
Pakistan suffers $68 bn losses in war on terror
2011
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-New...-war-on-terror
Pakistan didn't detonate it's first nuke until 1998, right? How did they threaten to nuke India in 1987? Did they have some hidden somewhere and only chose to test one in 1998?
http://www.defencejournal.com/2000/f...highstakes.htm
A blundering Delhi's lying has also led to its distortion of the fact that after India's nuclear tests of May 11, 1998 it was the Indian Home Minister L.K.Advani who took to nuclear brandishing. Advani had claimed on May 18 that 'Islamabad should realise the change in the geo-strategic situation in the region and the world and roll back its anti-India policy especially with regard to Kashmir. Advani's war mongering had been reprimanded by the State Department spokesman on May 19. Advani's words the spokesman had said, 'seems to indicate that India is foolishly and dangerously increasing tension with its neighbours.' Lying blatantly the Indian Defence Minister claimed during his January 5 talk at the IDSA Institute that 'they (Pakistan) held out a nuclear threat to us on May 31, 1999, and did it again yesterday without absorbing the real meaning of nuclearisation, that it can deter only the use of nuclear weapons, but not conventional war.' He was responding to General Pervez Musharraf's comment that Pakistan would use nuclear weapons if it was threatened.
http://zameer36.com/pakistans-finest-hour/There were also numerous rumours that Pakistani nuclear weapons’ capability could be a “bluff “only to deter India. After the 11th May 1998 Indian nuclear tests, Indian Home Minister L.K. Advani warned Islamabad to “roll back its anti-India policy, especially with regard to Kashmir”.
Indians were in aggressive mood and reportedly, it is said that Pakistani side was receiving information of a possible attack by India to destroy its nuclear facilities. On the pattern of Operation Opera, a precise attack for limited objective in this operation Israel destroyed Iraqi Osirak Nuclear Plant on June 7, 1981. So, it was obligatory for Pakistan to show off its nuclear capability to restore strategic stability in the region. This was the reason that then US President (Bill Clinton) offered the then Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif a five billion dollar not to conduct nuclear tests and Sharif denied to achieve long-term national objectives.
http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1512/15121310.htmAnd in the wake of Union Home Minister L.K. Advani's May 18 warning that Pakistan's proxy war against India would "prove costly" to that country, wages touched Rs. 110. In the Suchetgarh-R.S. Pora-Akhnoor belt, the scene of three wars, citizens understand just how short-lived peace can be.
Advani's burst of aggression makes it possible that this summer could be the most volatile since that of 1990, when many observers believe Pakistan's support for terrorism in Kashmir almost led India to respond with a conventional military assault. Advani's statements sought to link the Pokhran nuclear test with India's strategic position in Kashmir. The Minister proceeded from the assumption that India's "decisive step to become a nuclear weapon state has brought about a qualitative new state in India-Pakistan relations, particularly in finding a lasting solution to the Kashmir problem." Inviting Pakistan to "join India in the common pursuit of peace," he warned that "any other course will be futile and costly for Pakistan." "Islamabad has to realise the change in the geo-strategic situation in the region and the world." Although "we adhere to the no-first-strike principle," Advani said, "India is resolved to deal firmly with Pakistan's hostile activities." On just what "firmly" meant, the Minister was blunt. He said: "We should not shy away from our strengths; nor would security be neglected because of international disapproval."
Advani's hawkish polemic was endorsed by Abdullah. The National Conference Chief Minister spoke of the need to "teach Pakistan a lesson". "We are no longer weak," he told reporters. India, he asserted, had to tell Pakistan that "while we want peaceful coexistence, it cannot be on your terms." Abdullah's endorsement of Advani's stand may have been driven by the fact that the Home Minister flatly ruled out negotiations with the secessionist All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), whose chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Defence Minister George Fernandes had sought to meet during a recent visit to Jammu and Kashmir.
ON May 20, United States State Department spokesman James Rubin did just that. Advani's remarks, he said, indicated that India was "foolishly and dangerously increasing tensions with its neighbours, and is indifferent to world opinion." He added: "We call upon India to exercise great caution in its statements and actions at this particularly sensitive time, with emotions running high." Rubin's language, against which New Delhi protested, was evidently driven by concern that Advani's posture may make it near-impossible for Sharif to resist domestic pressures to carry out a nuclear test in response to those at Pokhran.
Despite the furore his remarks provoked, Advani continued to push ahead. In a May 20 statement, he elaborated on his earlier remarks. "Up to now," the statement said of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, "India's reaction to such provocation has been essentially reaction." "At the meeting two days ago, it was decided that further misadventures on Indian territory shall be dealt with in a pro-active manner." "Terrorism," Advani proclaimed, "must be and shall be crushed without any false pity."
Seems to me that india has also taken jabs at pakistan whenever and wherever it can -- now that every citizen of pak is thought of as a terrorist , india's aim to destabilize pak, mudslinging on pakistani citizens and to instigate sectarianism in pak has become quite easy ... however this topic is for some other thread, some other time
Last edited by ANTIBODY; 08-23-2012 at 03:22 PM.
Machines matter only when they have teeth to fight with..
Indeed IAF was in good shape..
Hardly matters , such blackmail was common during cold war but no one dared to go nuke.
Even today Pakistan blackmails india with Nukes directly or indirectly but in reality neither India nor Pakistan can afford such fight and neither of them will emerge victorious after a nuclear conflict.
Not directly, it would be stupid if they did, it's just mutual assured destruction, you can only threaten to nuke someone in selfdefense when they have nukes and you don't (my point assuming in 1987 Pakistan wasn't nuclear-weapon states).
Glad to hear everyone everywhere plays the victim card. Always a conspiracy against "us" whoever we are.
That's what I thought too. Where did Pakistan get this "nuke" they would use against India in '87? China?
Pakistanis didn't have working nuclear weapons back then, and their current warheads have yield similar or smaller to Little boy a-bomb what was dropped on Hiroshima.
http://bos.sagepub.com/content/67/4/91.full.pdf+html
How about starting a new thread for whatever you have stated here ? I am pretty sure you wont. Lies and Deceit dont sell anymore, not even to your own "allies".
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