The US & others working with Pakistan

[Madhu]

@ carl -

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan today joined the UN Security Council for a two-year term as a non-permanent member of the powerful world body, which also has India among its 15-member states.

Pakistan was elected to the Security Council last October when 129 out of 193 members of the UN General Assembly voted for it during an election.

Pakistan has previously served the Council in 1952-53, 1968-69, 1976-77, 1983-84, 1993-94 and 2003-04.

"It will be Pakistan's seventh time on the Council, and the fourth time its term will overlap with India, as it did in 1968, 1977 and 1984," the state-run APP news agency said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/w...w/11329074.cms


Sorry to be so gloomy given the New Year, but nothing has changed and nothing will change. Monies siphoned off from civilian aid or gifted by those who wish to be regional "players" will continue to build up a conventional and nuclear arsenal pointed eastwards and all the while our best minds will write journal articles detailing how "assuaging fears" will "demilitarize" the subcontinent. Too many people are professionally and personally invested in one narrative - and one narrative only.