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Pakistan Vows To Stand with Iran if US, Israel Attack
A clear message has been given to the United States through the tripartite summit of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan that Pakistan will support Iran in case of any possible aggression against it.
Presidents from Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai (L), Pakistan's Asif Ali Zardari (C) and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad join hands as they pose for pictures after a news conference in the President House in Islamabad February 17, 2012. Ahmadinejad said on Friday foreign interference was the source of all problems in the region. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed Moreover, Pakistan has clearly affirmed that the US will not be allowed to set up any airbases in Pakistan with the purpose of attacking Iran. The joint declaration says: "Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan will ensure respect of territorial sovereignty of each other and would not allow any threat emanating from their respective territories against each other".
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The Nation newspaper (Lahore, Pakistan) reports:
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will not assist the US if it attacks Iran, Islamabad Friday assured Tehran.
Pakistan will not provide Americans airbases to launch attack on its neighbor, President Asif Ali Zardari said after the third trilateral summit of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
At the summit the three states expressed their resolve to work collectively for peace and stability in the region and enhancement of mutual cooperation in different sectors, particularly economy and trade.
“Pakistan and Iran need each other and no foreign pressure can hinder their ties.”
- Pakistan President ZardariAddressing a joint news conference, along with his Iranian and Afghan counterparts Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hamid Karzai, President Zardari emphatically stated that Pakistan’s relationship with the brethren countries cannot be undermined by the international pressure of any kind. “Pakistan and Iran need each other and no foreign pressure can hinder their ties.”
This is the first categorical assurance of support to Tehran from the highest echelons of Islamabad, whose own ties with the Washington came under a severe strain in November last year after NATO airstrikes on two Pakistani Army checkposts in Mohmand Agency killed over two dozen soldiers prompting Islamabad to take steps including stopping the passage of NATO supplies through the country and boycott of an international conference on Afghanistan.
About international pressure on Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, the head of the state facing chronic energy shortages, said Pakistan is lobbying the world and our point of view has been looked at and accepted. A private TV channel reported that Tehran has offered Islamabad to double the gas supply promised under Iran-Pakistan gasline project. Zardari said Iran and Pakistan are neighbors and both the countries need to inter-depend on each other for prosperity of the region.
Iranian President Mehmood Ahmadinejad said several of the problems have been imposed on the region by outside forces. “There are countries which have targeted our region for their dominance.” He advocated for enhancing regional cooperation and putting in use all resources to address these problems.
Ahmadinejad also said that nuclear-armed nations were not superior to others, a day after his sanctions-hit government told world powers it was ready to resume stalled atomic talks. “(The) nuclear bomb is not going to bring about superiority,” he told while addressing the predominantly English-speaking audience through a translator.
Ahmadinejad said Iran’s relationship with nuclear-armed Pakistan was an example of an alliance that “is not because of nuclear bomb or weapons… The foundation of our political relationship is humanitarian and is based on common cultural values… Promoting peace and fraternity are the common goals of the three countries and our nations. We have got hopes to a victory in future.” [...]
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Show AllYour comparison to a cultural festival is superficial and absurd. If we go with that analogy, we'd have a cultural festival that gave out two types of passes, based on religion/ethnicity, with thuggish guards who shot anyone who protested and had violently taken over the cultural festival of their non-jewish neighbors on the nexrt block. The closer one looks at Israel, the more apparent the racism.
A zionist mocking others as religious extremists, as you did in your comment, is hypocritical propaganda.
Like a typical zionist, you are arrogant and condenscending. Luckily, the people of the world have haerd all your bullshit semantic sophistry before, and we've had enough of your lies. There is no equality for Palestinians in the Jewish State. For instance just examine the Law of Return, which aplies only to Jews, and the racist marriage laws that treat mixed Jew/Paelestinian marriages as unequal. Your lies re thin. The more deeply one looks at Israeli society, the more racism one finds.
There is no reason for the US to continue giving billions to the bestial Israelis! The US Congress is completely controlled by the Israeli Lobby on all issues relating to Israel http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/24/the-israeli-plot-to-murder-a-form...
Finally, I never said a word about Jews, you whining lying SOB. I have had lots of Jews as friends and lovers; so, fuck you and your worn out bullshit accusations of bigotry. I did not categorically oppose zionism until the Israeli racists elected the butcher Sharon. That you continue to defend racist Israel says a lot about your lack of morality.
Even in the school yard, the little kids who have been harassed, robbed and beaten by the school yard bully eventually put aside their own differences to deal with him and his gang.
I just hope the "butcher's bill" will not be in the billions before this all shakes out.
Meanwhile, Occupy here at home and around the world. The People are starting to awaken!
Up the 99.9%! Off the 0.1%!
It sure as hell is worth a try!
It also ignores the reality of an American Police State designed to destroy the possibility of socialism in the US. See McCarthyism and Hoover's FBI, and tthe current war on dsissent in the US.
It also ignores the concentration of US mass medis in the hands of the corporate elite.
It also ignores the reality of capitalist campaign finance.
It also ignores the corrupt electronic voting/privatization of vote counting in the hands of capitalist and often rightist corporations. The ignorant simplicity of your comment is astounding.
"If a government pursues a policy that threatens to reduce a whole people to servitude or to exterminte them, they have a right to resist violence with violence."
Sean McBride, Irish Revolutionary, Irish Minister of External Affairs (1948-51); Co-founder of Amnesty International (1961); Nobel Peace Prize (1974); Lenin Peace Prize (USSR-1977); American Medal of Justice (US-1978)
Quote is from an interview with Robert Anton Wilson, published in his Coincidance, 1988
We've had decades during which thousands of right-wing radio stations have literally been reading and amplifying GOP talking points all day, every day.
And then came Fox news.
And the other biggest reason is the fact that the Democrats have sold us out, utterly, to the 1%. If that were not true, Obama would have come in like a liberal lion. We would have national health care kicking in about now, there would have been war crimes trials in 2009, and on and on.
And when the country saw the real difference (if there *had been* a real difference), the Republicans would be wandering in the wilderness for 40 years.The reality that the 1%, have gained disproportionate power over the lives of the 99% in this country, and indeed globally, is indisputable.
That an increasing percentage of the 99% are waking up to that fact, or that a diminishing percentage of people are ignorant of that fact, has does not negate that REALITY.
You are playing semantics in service to that 1%'s power and wealth, and you know it. That intent, and shared mission, makes you, at least conceptually, a 1%er.
That metaphor also works in the other direction, how a schoolyard bully picks off the weaker kids, subduing them, one by one, going for the weakest first to intimidate the bigger.
Trylon
- Bases and supply routes have to go further
- Propaganda becomes more difficult in and outside the US
- The US needs to set more troops and munitions aside to maintain its occupations elsewhere, including but not limited to Pakistan
To seriously bend a quote, "I have always relied on the kindness of small favours."
Finally, they're getting the idea! These folks need to stick together and stand up to the Evil Empire.
Good news for a change. That certainly makes my day!
I have no idea where you got the quoted info, but it's very wrong. Try this instead:
"Kyrgyzstan has categorically stated its intention to join the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. President Almazbek Atambayev revealed that he discussed the matter with the Russian leadership. AA stressed that Russia remains the “main strategic partner for Kyrgyzstan”.
"He also took a swipe at the United States by indirectly warning it against attempts to “rock” his country. The Central Asian leaderships are extremely wary of US-sponsored moves to stage Arab-Spring like political upheaval in the region. The western attempt to magnify the recent unrest in the Aktau region in Kazakhstan wouldn’t have helped matters, either. The western intervention in Libya has set alarm bells ringing in Central Asia.
"The decision by the Collective Security Treaty Organisation [CSTO] at its recent summit meeting in Moscow to make it mandatory that the setting up of military bases anywhere in the region by any extra-regional powers should be only with the concurrence of the other member states can be seen as directed against the US and NATO.
"The US can be expected to do all it can to stop AA on his track, as he takes Kyrgyzstan into the Customs Union. The crunch time comes in 2014 when the lease of the US air base in Manas expires. According to the CSTO decision, Russia’s consent will be needed for the extension of the lease — a curious anomaly, indeed. Interestingly, Uzbek President Islam Karimov attended the CSTO summit in Moscow and was party to the decision regarding military bases. The US game plan to dangle in front of Karimov the carrot of military supplies hasn’t apparently worked.
"The prospects are looking dim for the reopening of the transit routes for NATO supplies for Afghanistan via Pakistan anytime soon. Now, with the CSTO asserting its resistance to “foreign” military bases in Central Asia, US is finding itself between the rock and a hard place as 2012 comes into view. No wonder, US is panicky about Vladimir Putin’s victory in the presidential election in March. Putin has proclaimed that the formation of a Eurasian Union will be his top priority in foreign policy. He is repeatedly on record that Russia will play a forceful role in Central Asia. Atambayev, incidentally, is regarded to be close to Putin."
Links to sources at original, http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2011/12/29/kyrgyzstan-heading-for-...
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/07/18/53372698.html "Tajikistan rules out the deployment of US military bases on its territory, said the Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrohon Zarifi in a statement in Dushanbe today." 7/18/11