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Pakistan PM urges U.S. to take its side against India

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Pakistan playing off the US and China trying to get whatever it can for the handful of factional leaders who get rich keeping millions stuck in feudal conditions. Almost 70 years since partition, but so little to show.

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Right... Sorry, but I like India much more than I like Pakistan. Which is more of a tourist destination? Pakistan is hardly on the list.

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Which is more of a tourist destination? Pakistan is hardly on the list.

You sure about that? Indian teenagers and men are raping anything and everything these days.

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Well, the US did take Pakistan's side for years, despite it being a military dictatorship for a majority of its history post-independence. You would have thought that India would have been much more of a natural ally given its democratic and secular nature, notwithstanding its growing economic might.

And of course, lest we forget, Osama Bin Laden was being given safe haven by the Pakistani military and intelligence. Pakistan is also responsible directly for the creation of the Taliban. Also, given India's stellar non-proliferation record in comparison to the less than desirable one of Pakistan, it shouldn't be hard to see which side the US should be taking.

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@FullM You would have thought that India would have been much more of a natural ally given its democratic and secular nature,

India was aligned with Russia for part of the Cold War period. US President Nixon and Indira Gandhi apparently disliked each other immensely, which also kept the two sides apart.

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India was not aligned to either side in the cold war. In fact it was practically the founder of Non-aligned Movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement). However, due to the US policy of "You're either with us or against us", India had better relations during that time with the Soviets.

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@Full You're right, 'aligned' in the formal sense was a poor choice of words

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/JCWS_a_00006

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Pakistan is declining quickly, it's economy is lagging behind even Bangladesh. It has one of the highest percentage of illiteracy in the world that gives prime hotbed for harboring religious extremists.

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"Pakistan Sucks."

-- Salmon Rushdie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3vBSKeVw7Q

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