Is Pakistan to be trusted?
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Pakistan has been an active member in the ABSG <Against ‘Buttercup’ Society of Giraffes> the CENTO <Creepy Egocentric Narcissus Tope Organization> and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). Pakistan is also an important member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) <other wise referred to as the Anti-South Park militia>. Pakistan has used the Anti-South Park militia as a forum for Enlightened Moderation [3], its plan to promote a take a rain check and elucidation in the Islamic world. Besides the Anti South Park militia, Pakistan is a member of the South Asian union of SAARC. The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) <also known as whoa daddy got some deep pockets> is another major regional organization seeking to promote socio-economic development. Pakistan's status as the only Islamic nation to be a declared nuclear power plays a significant role in international affairs.\n\nForeign relations with the United States have seen as a roller coaster <which has killed many> throughout the history of Pakistan. In the early 1950s, Pakistan's leaders called the country the United States "most allied ally in Asia"[4]. During the Soviet-Afghan war in the 1980s and following the September 11 attacks, Pakistan remained a crucial ally. However, between crises relations have soured with sanctions being applied by the United States, once during the 1965 war with India and again following Pakistan's nuclear tests in 1998.\n\nPakistan has had difficult relations with neighboring arch-rival India with the two countries fighting three wars <after the large migration of Irish Workers impregnated their women and introduced Pakisanians to green beer> and coming to the verge of a nuclear war <like we need more halaback girls right???> on other occasions. The long-running border dispute over Kashmir resulted in war in 1947 and 1965. A third war <we now introduce the Russian’s with their Vodka> was fought alongside the Bangladeshi Liberation War in 1971. India's decision to conduct nuclear tests in 1998 immediately prompted Pakistan to test its own.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan#Foreign_relations
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Are you even serious????!!??? Pakistan may have nukes, but they still lack credible delivery means. Their borrowed/stolen technology from China & N.Korea still ain't good enough to take a warhead across the continents. In any case, there's no chance of Pakistan ever getting into a confrontation with the US of A. Why, those international pariahs live off the mercy of the US. If they hadn't to cleverly ally with them in the war against terror, Pakistan by now would have been an international non-entity.\nPakistan's survival depends on it towing the US line, so chances of a war between them and the US can exist only in the wildest realms of imagination.
221976
There are no different things as military and politics as for now in pakistan. It was a democracy and hopefully will be one soon.
733205
I know what Muslim terrorists have done to India.  \n\nI have friends whose parents left the Punjab (and came to the UK) because of Muslims burning down schools and attacking worshippers at temples there.  \n\nWhen it started happening over here (7/7/05) they just shook their heads and said "I told you so".\n\nI don't totally trust the Pakistan government - they could so easily clamp down on the Madrassas which are teaching terrorism and British Muslims going there to train as terrorists.  I bet they know where Osama is as well.
1128702
Trust?   Well I might think their reasoning might be a little off. So I would weigh that in. \nAnd some just plain lie --maybe they believe it--I don't know.\n\nSo I would be careful.
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Do you really think that they have to ask permission to the Americans? I think they too have the right to make their own political alliances.\n___\n\n"Many experts predict the new closeness between the world's only superpower and Islamabad's fiercest rival will prompt Pakistan to develop even closer ties with its longtime strategic security partner, China.\n\nPakistan needs a deterrent against India.\n\nThe animosity between the two countries dates to partition in August 1947, when the British divided their former colony into two states. India was meant to be a secular democracy and Pakistan, a homeland for South Asian Muslims. More than six million Muslims migrated to Pakistan, and more than four million Hindus and Sikhs moved to India. Tremendous violence and upheaval during the partition process left more than one million people dead.\nIn the half-century since, Pakistan and India have fought three wars and come close a few other times. The unresolved issue of the disputed territory of Kashmir and periodic military buildups on both sides have kept tensions high. Many Pakistanis still worry that India wants to reunite the territory under its control. Both countries tested nuclear weapons in 1998".\n\nQuoted from: \nChina and Pakistan: A Deepening Bond\nAuthor:Esther Pan\nMarch 8, 2006\nhttp://www.cfr.org/publication/10070/china_and_pakistan.html
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only the establishment of pakistan can answer this question.
624491
you are. no doubt about it. on one side u are talking about humanity on the other hand Hiroshima & Nagasaki.on one hand you are talking about fighting against terrorism on the other hand you are neglecting(or helping?) Pakistan. on one hand you are asking China to retreat from chinies taipei on the other hand you are occuping Afganistan,Iraq and Iran on the agenda next. you want the world to be under your foot. but never forget Hitler, Musolini, Alexander the great,Japan they all failed. where are you heading for? as far as China, India,Israel is concerned you will be axing the branch on which you are sitting. Pakistan is already under your control.
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First of all, you have the cart before the horse.  The Pakistani military must be willing to help the US and UK.  What they do accomplish is great, but it's also usually a 1 step forward and two back situation.\n\nSecond, they aren't going ot get technology help until the Pak military, and especially the intelligence service, is actually accountable to civil authority.
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Pakistan's government is alligned with us right now and very supportive; but that support has caused them great rift with the islamic fundamentalist in that country.  Their elections are within a year and some don't think the current leadership will hold on.  If a radical islamic leader is elected its a "HUGE" problem for us because of the Nukes.
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? what, Pakistan...?\n\nWHO CARES\n\nwe should only care about items that happen in the USA
364166
Pakistan and India are not run by Islamic Extremist that are bent on harming others outside their countries.  These two nations fear each other, but do not threaten Israel, the United States, Russia or Western Europe.  Iran does!
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Yes. But not in the same capacity as the past. Without unilateral trust from all involved (witch is only going to be gained by equal treatment to all parties involved) even if it is not perceived to be earned, it will always be one step forward, and two steps back. Even Israel doesn't really trust us. It's just more beneficial to go along with our monetary gestures; after all what have we ever asked from them in return? Use of their airstrips to launch attacks from (which we in turn pay for the privilege). If we are to be negotiators of peace, we need to be perceived by all communities as even handed and fair minded brokers. Fair minded brokers don't negotiate with one hand behind their back.
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One of the best things Pervez Musharraf has done for Pakistan is to  allow the press to discuss important issues freely without any fear.  One such issue is the treatment of rape victims.  The papers and women from all over the country have been campaigning vigorously for a long time now and it has just proved successful.  I don't think that Pakistan will become a secular country, like France, but there are plenty of people there who have enough common sense to know when a law isn't working.  Defiantly a step in the right direction,  good on Pakistan I say!
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No. Not as long as Pakistan keeps their current leader
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i am pretty sure u wont like this answer and itsnt worth the effort, but still i will answer it.\n\nis india afraid of pakistan??\nthe answer is yes\n\nwhy should not we be?? the country has got a nuke. the country is ruled by its military.  next change may bring in religious fundamentalists to power,\nso why should not we be afraid.\n\nunlike pakistan we cant allow our citizens to be killed by another country(as the usa continuously raids targets inside pak and keeps on killing their citizens)\n\nwe are not foolish enough to send our soldiers to a war which is not necessary(which we can win in the end) and loose their precious lives.\n\nif u take the above factors into consideration yes we are afraid.\n\nu know i was always weak at history but seems u never even studied it!!\n\ncan u please enlighten me which war ended in equality\n\n1948:- when india gained control of kashmir\n\n1965- when pakistan had to run around in the world to find a negotiator\n\n1971- when 90000 of ur soldiers surrendered to our army and needless to mention u lost east pakistan\n\nnow we come to kargil\n\nfirst of all can u kindly tell me whether it was pakistani military in kargil or just mercenaries.\n\ni am not disagreeing with u when u say that it was pakistani army.\n\nits just that the govt of pakistan didnt have the guts to acknowledge those people as its soldiers.\n\npakistan is really a very strong country one which cant even claim back the bodies of its soldiers and give them decent burial.\n\nif pakistan is really so strong then why does it have to send its soldiers in disguise,\n\ni mean 1948:-tribals who somehow had mortars\n\n1999:-mercenaries who somehow had got hold of pakistani army identification.\n\ni am gonna skip the china part thats another story\n\ni am not hoping for a best answer but if u think it is worth it i will only be too glad   ;)
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well , the problem that the authority of Pakistan is too weak to contol the country, or we can say that pakistan is too big for its government to handle, besides, the lack of education esp in the remote areas of Pakistan makes its people to be convinced by any ideas if the ideas look worm enough..pressing on the culture of the skin (where no other clture is there than religion)...People there feel very vicimized by the poverty and the lack of education (again i press on the lack of education)..it is easy to pritsh them radical idea based on patience and waiting for the other life with lots of hope(as they are sufferring already in this life)  Solution: Education (by educated people ,real educated ones)..the education will lead to production  and freedom  , and that will lead to have financial stabilty.. which leads to enjoy and love life..any forcable solution in my opinion will lead to more extreme in ideas  ...