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Saturday 6 April 2013

Why a war between India and Pakistan is very likely by 2014 or later






Bruce Riedel, a former CIA agent and now a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington DC has written a book entitled "Avoiding Armageddon America, India and Pakistan to the brink and back". Mr. Riedel's main argument in the book is that if there is one place in the world where we could have a nuclear war in our lifetime, it's in South Asia. In an interview with rediff.com, Mr. Riedel has suggested that "India and Pakistan have fought four wars, and there's no reason to believe they are finished. If one thinks of what a future war between India and Pakistan would look like, it is Armageddon." Mr. Riedel also hinted that "dark forces in Pakistan who will do anything and were vividly on display in Mumbai in 2008 haven't gone away. If anything, they are stronger today than they have ever been before. Indians need to think clearly about what kind of future they are going to have with a Pakistan that has the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world, and more terrorists per square mile than any other place in the world." As Mr. Riedel further elaborates in the video, Pakistan army's obsession with India is not likely to end any time soon and the next war which is only a matter of time will likely result in Armageddon.