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This region is too vast to control. Sometimes I can never understand the ruling elites. It's as if they are out to choose the path of maximum suffering and problems. For those of you who are in their 20s or below will see the emerging population bomb brewing south of the Sahara. By 2050 SSA...

I am glad they are kept safe within the bases. Seeing some poor sod get killed in a country most Brits don't even have a inkling about is not my idea of doing good. What terrorism? First killing some creatures in the bush is going to make zilch differance to cities and towns in UK. When was the...

I can't even understand why British troops should be in Mali. Exactly what geo-strategic benefit does it confer? Waste of tax payers money. @Vergennes

Slightly off topic but there is not much underlying differance between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Just like Afghanistan Pakistan would have cracked along ethnic fractures. However because of the British era Pakistan Army and a urban middle class who are products of British rule [although they...

No, they have not in practice. They still underpin the Kabul regime and provide the backbone and assurance finiancial, military or otherwise. This means if Taliban pull back US support ebbs but if Taliban push hard and start gaining ground US support begins to increase until Taliban are halted...

No external force will be able to erase Taliban in Afghanistan. You have to understand that Taliban in Afghanistan is as much a ethic Pakhtun movement as much as it is military or political. Think of IRA in Ulter. Whilst it had understones of historical Catholic versus Protestant rivalry it was...

Yes, in equal measure to India defined as just anti-Pakistan.

Fantastic !

Great news. PTI win. PML-N almost wiped out. Open champs bottle. Final Score PTI 9 IND 7 PPP 4 PMLN 2 MWM 1 Note: 5 Independents won who were not given PTI Tickets

I believe they are Nepali. The British Army has a Brigade of Gurkhas and I don't think they go to India to recruit them. I read a article by a British Gurkha officer who says when his unit was posted as Buckingham Palace guards all the vistors wondered "why are the Japanese guarding the British...

Being entirely partisan I hope PTI wins .....

This demonstrates what I have repeated many times. The Pakistan Army is NOT the all pervasive, dark force whose shadow shakes everybody into fear and trepidation. This would be impossible in Turkey before the rise of Erdogan or Pinochet's Chile. Power is badly fractured in Pakistan and the army...

Turkish, Pakistani and even Azad Kashmir flags seen in the celebrations. Well done Azerbaijan and thank you for appreciating our support.

Press conferance today by Foreign Minister Shah Masood Qureshi and ISI chief on Indian terror funding inside Pakistan.

Yes. this has been confirmed by Pakistani media. Evidence that would hold up in courts in cases of international terrorism are notoriously difficult. The information that intelligence agencies pick up might form enough body to make some conclusions on which actions can be taken but rarely does...

Let me be blunt. Indian Army 2020 is by practice if not by claim applying the bias or otherwise [call it martial theory] of the British. Sikhs form a massive block despite being a tinmy 2.5% and then there is the Gurkhas. The British use them as cheap cannon fodder but why India with it's...

I agree about your comments about Agha Amin. About the ethnic make up of the military informed by the now discarded martial theory I wonder how the other splinter of the erstwhile BIA - the Indian Army fared. With a democratic rule over 70 plus years and no 'meddling' does the modern Indian Army...

Land often drives a very primeval instinct in human beings. Soil that has seen generations of your ancesters toil, blood and bones is not easy thing to give up. Humans are deeply territorial creatures. We draw borders between "us" and "them". Then we fight. In fact most wars are fought over...

No, it should define by Pitcairn Islands, French Polynesia or perhaps Cook islands in the Pacific which are antipodes of Pakistan? Would that suit your irritability better? And there was no mention of identity. Instead I was referancing Pakistan to it's giant NEIGHBOUR. It's quite common to...