Pak unstable, India on edge

Source: Times of India

28 Dec 2007, 0145 hrs IST

NEW DELHI: With Pakistan tottering on the brink of uncertainty after Benazir Bhutto's assassination, the Indian security and foreign policy establishment promptly went into a huddle on Thursday evening to discuss the implications for India.

The first reading of the situation was there would be "no immediate repercussions" for India in terms of a jihadi or any other spillover from across the border.

The Pakistan Army as well as the nefarious ISI, as it is, are getting increasingly bogged down within their own borders to create major mischief across their eastern flank in India.

The mid-term to long-term estimate, however, held that the emerging situation with fundamentalists pushing the jihadi envelope from the frontier areas to well-fortified garrison towns in Pakistan, was fraught with serious consequences for India.

"An unstable Pakistan, in the danger of imploding, does have security implications for us. The terror infrastructure in Pakistan and PoK directed against India is, after all, still very much intact," said a top security official.


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since brinks are, inherently, uncertain situations, what could that possibly mean?

Or, hmmmm ....

Maybe temporal lobe damage.

Their use of English is a little "different". THey seem to have an aversion to the use of simple, declarative sentences. They prefer a more eliptical style.

And who knows what may materialize in Pakistan? I just don't like the thought of what will happen when the Pakistani people wake up in the next day or two to what has really taken place in there country.

time to reflect on the Kingston Trio's "The Merry Minuet"

(Sheldon Harnick)

They're rioting in Africa. They're starving in Spain. There's hurricanes in Florida and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls. The French hate the Germans. The Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs. South Africans hate the Dutch and I don't like anybody very much!
But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud for man's been endowed with a mushroom shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day someone will set the spark off and we will all be blown away.
They're rioting in Africa. There's strife in Iran. What nature doesn't do to us will be done by our fellow man.