A Tajik Tinderbox

• Guest 2927

  • Registered: 16 Oct 2018
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  16 October 2018     11:30350200
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  An armed confrontation between India and Pakistan has been on since 1947. There was a time when those countries were parts of one big state formation and were close. However, this wasn't a contribution for mutual understanding and good neighborly intercourse. It depended not only on religious differences, but also on some territorial reclamations. Kashmir has been a stumbling stone for many decades.
  
  Up to now, every year both India and Pakistan still balance on the edge of a nuclear war. Every year, both military men and civilians die on the Indo-Pakistan border.
• Brian Dixon

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  16 October 2018     14:36350206
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  and we are sending them millions of pounds in aid to do so.
• Reginald Barrington

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  16 October 2018     16:17350209
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   Brian Dixon wrote:

  and we are sending them millions of pounds in aid to do so.

  
  £98 million this year! We were supposed to be stopping aid to india in 2016 so much for that! At least they are getting to send a manned mission to space off the back of it.
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• Bob Whysman

  • Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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  16 October 2018     17:34350217
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   Reginald Barrington wrote:

  £98 million this year! We were supposed to be stopping aid to india in 2016 so much for that! At least they are getting to send a manned mission to space off the back of it.

  
  
  Two bites on the same day......they must be wearing the natives down!
  
  The anagram nipowers= spin wore. So a slight mistake by some foreign stirrer perhaps as nipawrs would be more appropriate......spin war.
  
  Tajikistan and Russia also work closely together in issues concerning Afghanistan and are partners in anti-terrorism, anti-narcotics, and intelligence operations. Tajikistan is highly dependent on the remittances coming from Russia. ...
  
  Some 1.5 million Tajiks work abroad, mostly in Russia.
  Russia–Tajikistan relations - Wikipedia
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• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
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  16 October 2018     18:19350220
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  Yet another join today member and post a link , luckily some of us can see through them.
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  I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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