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It is not about Balouchistan issues, it is pressing spying on Iran after expelled them in Shamsa Air Bases...


Eavesdropping on Iran: ‘US pressing for listening posts in Balochistan’


ISLAMABAD: Everyone wants to have a hand to play in Balochistan.

The latest player to unmask itself is the United States. Even as tensions brew between Pakistan and the US over a resolution introduced in the US House of Representatives seeking sovereignty for the volatile province, officials reveal that the US has been pushing Islamabad for permission to establish bases in Balochistan for intelligence operations against bordering Iran.

“Like always, things are not what they look like, and how they unfold … lies at the heart of all (this). The outburst in America for Balochistan is part of an ambition to set up intelligence bases close to the Iranian border,” an official told The Express Tribune on Sunday, indicating that the Congressional hearing and proposed resolution were playing their part as pressure tactics.

“They (Americans) want to use our soil against Iran, which we can never allow,” said the official, who did not want to be named.

Three officials, two from the security agencies and one from diplomatic circles, confirmed to The Express Tribune that American diplomats and military leaders have been requesting permission for their agents to operate near the Iranian border in Balochistan.

The revelation came days after a bill was moved in the House of Representatives, blaming Pakistani security agencies for forceful disappearances and extra-judicial killings in Balochistan and calling for the liberation of the country’s largest province. It also follows the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Pakistan for a trilateral summit.

Officials said that ostensibly, US authorities were seeking Pakistan’s permission to establish bases in Balochistan, claiming to counter the activities of the Afghan Taliban, whom they blame for operating out of the provincial capital under the umbrella of the so-called Quetta Shura. Islamabad, however, denies the presence of any such Taliban shura or council.

The proposed resolution adds to the rising chorus of voices across the country pointing fingers over the troubles of the violence-ridden province, including the Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) which has vowed to introduce a resolution in the National Assembly, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and even the Pakistan Bar Council among others.

The international front

Running parallel to the Balochistan saga is the recent rising concern in the West over purported Iranian ambitions to build nuclear arsenal. Reports in the recent past suggest American and Israeli authorities are starting to run out of patience, and the threat of Israeli military action against defiant Iran is a growing one.

Just last week, President Ahmadinejad reportedly urged Pakistani authorities to disallow Americans from reinforcing their presence at a consulate in Quetta.

Trilateral summit statement

Earlier last week, a joint declaration was issued at the conclusion of the Pakistan-Iran-Afghanistan summit in Islamabad, where all three sides vowed to put up collective resistance to any new misadventure by any force in the region.

Experts say the statement was a veiled reference to American ambitions to put an end to Iran’s nuclear drive.

In December last year, President Asif Ali Zardari delivered a speech at a gathering of Pakistan Peoples Party workers, saying he would never allow his country to become part of any other war theatre in the region.

“We are the well wishers of all and don’t want to make any more enemies,” the president said in remarks that officials interpreted as a snub to American pressure seeking permission for anti-Iran intelligence operations.

(Read: A troubled land)

Published in The Express Tribune, February 20th, 2012.
 
Sure.

Pakistan has the opportunity to patch up with USA.

Just ask 5 Billion $ per year per post, with 100% advance payment on 1st January of each year.


We can help salvage our economy and uncle SAM gets happy.
 
Pakistanis should look at this positively.

If Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program, then these listening posts will greatly help prevent a war between the West/Israel and Iran.

Prevention of war with Iran will also be in the favor of Pakistan.
 
Well, i wouldn't be surprised if Pakistan has already allowed the NATO to establish listening posts/bases in Balochistan, as always Pakistan sells itself out like a little wh@re.

Q:What nation allows another country to butcher 24 of its soldiers, and thousands upon thousands of its civilians and then provides it supply lines to go through its territory?

A: A little wh@re like country called Pakistan. :pakistan::pakistan::pakistan:
 
It will have a catastrophic affect on Pak-Iran relations though.
 
Sure.

Pakistan has the opportunity to patch up with USA.

Just ask 5 Billion $ per year per post, with 100% advance payment on 1st January of each year.


We can help salvage our economy and uncle SAM gets happy.

Yes good idea. More money for the foreign bank accounts. 2-3 generations of the current politicians at present can leave without doing any work so why not add 3-4 generations more down the line. Seems a good deal.

And in the end the common poor man will just get some handout from the very same money for getting votes and it will be like the politicians are spending for the sake of the people, they do no lose anything don't they. It is an ever green "business" in Pakistan.

Thankyou to all the honest and hard working politicians of Pakistan. Keep up the good work.
 
Pakistanis should think of it as sacrificing something small inorder to gain someething big.

Stopping a war in Iran will be greatly beneficial for Pakistan.

This move will help Pakistan stop the war on Iran.
 
Well, i wouldn't be surprised if Pakistan has already allowed the NATO to establish listening posts/bases in Balochistan, as always Pakistan sells itself out like a little wh@re.

Q:What nation allows another country to butcher 24 of its soldiers, and thousands upon thousands of its civilians and then provides it supply lines to go through its territory?

A: A little wh@re like country called Pakistan. :pakistan::pakistan::pakistan:

Listen buddy you might be angry about the NATO supply's and all that but you have no right to call my country a thing like that. Think before you say anything. Speaking BS doesn't make you look good. Idiots
 
Sure.

Pakistan has the opportunity to patch up with USA.

Just ask 5 Billion $ per year per post, with 100% advance payment on 1st January of each year.


We can help salvage our economy and uncle SAM gets happy.

Even if they agree to the $5 Billion demand, atleast 45% of it will go back to the US as administrative charges.......of the 55% that will be deposited in our accounts we will initiate new projects for which PPRA rules will be raped and contracts will be awarded to companies who either never deliver or exist only on paper because the company is owned by some relative of the Govt., ofcourse the person who awards the contract and his team will net their share......so work will be initiated, for a few months and the substandard, failed project will eventually be shelved. An enquiry will, ofcourse, be held but no result will be forthcoming.

In other words the US will continue to pay the politicians in power and their relatives while also making our incompetent and corrupt bureaucracy even stronger through bribes and cuts. Pakistan will continue to suffer as usual and this time we will face the Irani wrath as well. It is us common Pakistani's who will suffer the consequences of it all, as usual.
 
Well, i wouldn't be surprised if Pakistan has already allowed the NATO to establish listening posts/bases in Balochistan, as always Pakistan sells itself out like a little wh@re.

Q:What nation allows another country to butcher 24 of its soldiers, and thousands upon thousands of its civilians and then provides it supply lines to go through its territory?

A: A little wh@re like country called Pakistan. :pakistan::pakistan::pakistan:

You are calling Pakistan a ***** because of some politicians, military officers, media persons and bureaucrats who are selling themselves which raping Pakistan! In reality it is the 4-5% elite families of the country who are whoring the whole country for their net gains.

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Pakistanis should think of it as sacrificing something small inorder to gain someething big.

Stopping a war in Iran will be greatly beneficial for Pakistan.

This move will help Pakistan stop the war on Iran.

You really think the US will enter a war, now of all times, where she will lose more soldiers then she lost in Vietnam? Honestly?
 
You really think the US will enter a war, now of all times, where she will lose more soldiers then she lost in Vietnam? Honestly?

US itself might not enter into a war.

However, the US will pass on this intel to Israel which then will have no reason to go to war with Iran.

...which works out well for Pakistan as well.
 
You really think the US will enter a war, now of all times, where she will lose more soldiers then she lost in Vietnam? Honestly?
Let us be realistic. Iran cannot pull off a Vietnam. No country can. US military is massively different in structure and capabilities in current times then it was during the duration of Vietnam war.

However, I believe that Iran should be less provocative in its statements. War will send Iran back to stone age and time of slavery like Iraq.
 
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