Obama admin asks India to pull back troops from Pak border

[✡ Hindu Zionist ॐ]

NDTV has exclusive details of how Foreign Secretary Shivshanker Menon was categorically told by the US that India must lower troop levels on the border with Pakistan as a first step to restarting the peace process.

An outraged India has ruled this out completely though it seems America's demand was made to encourage Pakistan to transfer soldiers to its Afghanistan border to help the US launch a major thrust against the Taliban.

But India on Thursday also clarified the Mumbai terror attacks had nothing to do with its relationship with Pakistan.

External affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that India still believes terrorists used Pakistani soil and infrastructure in that country to launch the 26/11 attacks.

In his recent visit to Washington, the Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon came under unexpected pressure from the new US administration.

NDTV has learnt that the Foreign Secretary was told in no uncertain terms that India, not Pakistan should make the first moves towards restoring the peace process.

What really took Menon by surprise was that the US State Department wanted India to pull back troops from the border with Pakistan.

India refused saying that it hadn't deployed extra troops after the Mumbai attacks. Rather it was Pakistan which has sent thousands of troops.

The reason is that President Barack Obama is gearing up to launch a bigger military offensive in Afghanistan.

For this, he needs more Pakistani troops to help along the volatile Afghan-Pakistan border, troops, which Islamabad moved to the Indian border.

The US move to pressurise India has outraged New Delhi, it told Washington that Pakistan is responsible for the tension and the troop build up.

But what India cannot ignore is the sub-text: That it is yet to establish a comfort level with the new Obama administration like it achieved with President George W Bush.

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090088167&ch=319200990200PM

Obama wants us to be dead meat for Muslim terrorist Pakistan

[New Yorker]

Obama wants Americans to be dead meat for Islamic terrorists! He's going to lose most of his power in 2010 when we take the Senate away from him.

[✡ Hindu Zionist ॐ]

2010 is still a long way brother, We cant stand this guy!

He wants India to lower its troops on Pak border, Our Kashmir will then be gone and will invite more Paki infiltration into Rajasthan and Punjab.

[zachor_ve_kavod]

India should do the opposite.  They should put more troops along the border.  I'm glad India told the American administration where to go.

[✡ Hindu Zionist ॐ]

first of all i dont know which imaginary war Obama wants to fight in Afghanistan.For God's sake Osama Bin Laden is in Pakistan protected by ISI, and not in Afghan! Secondly if America wants to fight its own war, why play it on Indian lives? If he wants to go on war he should increase the troops or send more drones to Afghan. And why the hell cant he tell Pak to control their terrorist troop movements? why India?

[syyuge]

Ob has all sympathies for Papistan666. But Papistan666 is the real and root of global muslamic terrorism, even more than Afghan.

So we may see a pseudo -Afghani war.

[syyuge]

There should be a joint America-India effort to invade Pakistan, get rid of the nukes, and take down the Taliban.  And hopefully get Osama in the process.

Yes, the exact process. But I doubt its possibility now. Actually Bush should have somehow applied it.