Iran Enraged by Pakistan’s Heedless Attitude to Border Control

[Kushan Prince]

No you are mistaken. Elamites were not Dravidians. They were a native Middle Eastern people, probably racially related to Mespotamians, but of an unknown ethnic and linguistic origin. Their language probably developed uniquely in southwestern Iran thousands of years before Iranians migrated there and mixed with them to later give rise to Persians.

Dravidians on the other hand are from the Indian subcontinent. Their ancestors arrived there thousands of years before the Brahmans / Indo-Aryans, but some time after the Aboriginals who were in the Indian subcontinent even earlier.

Punjabis are not a people or a nation. They are a fabricated ethnic group with no history. These so-called Punjabis are made up of Indian castes like Jats mainly and others that were clumped together into a province that the Mughals gave the name Punjab. Then the British came and conquered this region and drew the borders of Punjab that exist to this day.

Punjabis are just recent converts from the Hindu low castes. When the British first conquered Punjab, most of the population was Hindu and Sikh. You can see the proof this in the British censuses on the 19th century published in the Imperial gazetteer's of British India.

Well Persians are elamites since their genetics show this but your right about everything else.

[randolph85]

you are the reason why religeous parties can not be trusted... you should be ashasmed of yourself..

says the delusional pakistani obsessed with fake maps and wikipedia statistics. go away, stupid.

[Tiger Khan]

says the delusional pakistani obsessed with fake maps and wikipedia statistics. go away, stupid.

..and this is very religeous of you.. self-rieghteous Hipocrites should not be allowed here at PF.. your inner self is dying to show itself but you have to live by this artificial persona..

[randolph85]

..and this is very religeous of you.. self-rieghteous Hipocrites should not be allowed here at PF.. your inner self is dying to show itself but you have to live by this artificial persona..

[Tiger Khan]

that is by far the most intelectual thing you ever did ..!.

[EvilPakistani]

Coming back to the topic itself i.e. Iran-"Pakistan" bilateral relations despite "EvilPakistani" and his attempts to derail the thread and degenerate it in to a mudslinging competition.

1. Iran as a state and a people look down on "Pakistan" and "Pakistanis" (Punjabis) as inferior.

2. Pakistani nationalists such as Ahmed Qureishi and others often boast (due to their inferiority complex) that they are of "Arab/Afghan/Turk/Iranian" origin, trying to disassociate themselves from the indigenous Indic peoples of their region, ironic given that they could be accused of being invaders rather than locals.

Anyway this is of course nonsense, Punjabis are Indic converts, but the biggest irony is that the Arabs, Afghans and Iranians would want nothing to do with them.

Pakistani nationalists regularly talk about Bangladesh as either once again being part of "Pakistan" or a "friendly" state (i.e. subjugating its national interests to that of Pakistan e.g. having hostile relations with India thus benefitting Pakistan's interests rather than having a normal trading relationship with India as per Bangladeshi interests) but they never talk about federating with Iran.

Why?

If "Pakistanis" are indeed Iranic/Iranian (Pashtuns/Balochis are, but Pakistanis aren't) then why shouldn't they be embraced by their "Iranic" brothers?

- Iran is right next door, Bangladesh is a thousand miles away.

- Iranians are (supposedly) blood brothers of "Pakistanis" and Bengalis are "traitors", "crypto-Hindu" etc.

So why not federate with Iran?

The answer is because despite their propaganda Pakistanis know deep inside Iranians view themselves as a superior nation to Pakistan and despise them and want nothing to do with them. Iran has very good relations with India.

Iran and India both supported the northern alliance against the Pakistani-backed Taliban.

Iran does about 10 times more trade with India than with "Pakistan".

Iran's trade with India is at $13 billion.

3. Iran is a Persian nationalist state with a heavy input from Azeris (such as Khamenei and others) who are loyal to "Iranian nationalism" which believes in the supremacy of Persian culture and language.

It is of course a Shia supremacist state which persecutes Sunnis.

The Iranian regime has support from at least 1/3 of Iranians including the conservative rural masses but is despised by the urban elite.

Iran is oppressing the Balochis of western Balochistan and is unhappy with the Pakistani regime at its inability to control the Iranian-Pakistani border.

The question is what will the Tehran regime do?

They are already furious with the Pakistanis and telling them to control the border tightly.

4. If Balochistan gains its independence then here what we can expect.

a: A small but resource rich state which within a decade or two will become a lower middle-income country and then another Oman or even UAE.

b: Massive investment and support from millions of Balochis from across the diaspora.

c: Good relations with Kurdistan.





Iraqi Kurdistan has one of the fastest growing economies in the world and is virtually independent.

d: Good relations with Bangladesh as long as there is no "Jamat i Islami" in the ruling coalition, which there usually is every five years unfortunately and the Jamat is a tool of "Pakistan".

However even despite these traitors, Bangladesh would definitely have positive relations with Balochistan as it does with Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.

4. A major Arabian gulf hub of trading.

Also if Balochistan gains independence then Sindhi nationalists will pick up guns the next day.

1.Iranians look down on everybody, they look down on Afghans, they look down on Arabs,they look down on Baluchis, they look down on Indians, they look down on any ethnicity they believe is "darker" than them, they're a very nationalistic country.

2.Most Pakistanis know that they are not of Arab,Turkish or Persian origin, although there might be some that do believe, and some might even have small traces of that ancestry in their DNA, but it's negligible.

There are many Bengali Muslims that claim to have Arab or Persian origins, some even claim mongoloid ancestry, It's actually quite laughable, many Bengali Hindus mock them, the same way you're mocking Pakistanis.

3.The reason why SOME Pakistanis want to have friendly relation with Bangladesh is because of some pre-1971 nostalgia, and because Pakistan wants to surround India, just like how Pakistan has relations with Sri Lanka for that very reason, so Bangladesh is quite similar to Sri Lanka in that aspect.

4.We do not want a confederation with ANY country, we're an independent country and we want to stay that way, apart from Oil and Gas there isn't much we would benefit from having a "confederation" with Iran, because they're mostly Shiite and we're mostly Sunni, and Iran is on the axis of evil so we don't want to associate with them, because America would bomb us for that.

Pakistan and Iran are part of the ECO, before it was called the RCD, and there is a highway that goes through Baluchistan into Iran and on wards to Turkey called the RCD highway, and last time I checked Pakistani citizens receive a 15-day visa for Iran on arrival.

Iran and India have much larger trade than Pakistan because India has a MUCH larger economy and market, and Iran has Oil, whereas Pakistan has neither.

5.Baluchistan is rich in minerals, but it doesn't have much Oil or Gas, so Baluchistan has potential of getting rich, but only for a short while, because minerals don't last as long as fossil fuels, Australia is going to run out of minerals in the next decade or two, whereas the GCC states won't run out of oil until another 50-60 years.

The Baloch diaspora isn't that big, there aren't "millions" of Baluch that live abroad, out of that maybe only half are separatists, and you've got to have "millions" in order to invest millions.

So what if Baluchistan would have good relations with Kurdistan for cultural reasons, how is that going to benefit the Baloch economy?Look at a map, Kurdistan is quite far from Baluchistan, and neither have anything the other would want.

How will good relations with Bangladesh benefit it, it's located thousands of KMs away, with a completely different culture, and Bangladesh is an export-based economy, and if Baluchistan were separate(hopefully it won't be), then it would be an export-based economy too, it's only going to benefit from trading with a consumer based economy with a high purchasing power.

The last pic of Iraqi Kurdistan you showed is animated.

I don't know why you're so obsessed with confederating with Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries, why don't you form a confederation with other Southeast Asian states, and maybe West Bengal.

Bangladesh you should support a separate state for Rohingya Muslims in Burma, they have the most similarities with Bengali Muslims.

[Bengal_Tiger]

you are the reason why religeous parties can not be trusted... you should be ashasmed of yourself..

1. Ikhwanul Muslimeen or "Ikhwanul Mufsideen" (Brothers of corruption or literally corrupt doers) are a failure.

They started off in Egypt, and they have proven to be a failure. After less than 12 months, Egyptians had enough of them and millions of Egytpians who are all Muslims and pray and fast demanded their removal, which Alhamdulilah the Egyptian army did.

2. Ikhwanul Mufsideen is an ally of its local variants in Pakistan and Bangladesh by the name of "Jamaat e Islami" and the Ikhwan when in power in Egypt vocally backed Bangladesh's Jamaatis, a party of war criminals.

But Allah is great and has removed Ikhwanul Mufsideen from power in Egypt, has stopped the Saudi goal of destroying the Syrian government, has banned the Jamaat in Bangladesh (they exist but are not allowed to contest elections).

3. I have spoken to Muslims, my brothers from across the ummah and they are disillusioned with so-called "Islamic" parties. All parties are corrupt but is worse when this corruption is done in the name of "Islam".

- I spoke to a Tunisian brother, he hated An-Nahda.

- I spoke to people and Ikhwanul Mufsideen is hated in Egypt and most likely these troublemakers will not be power in Egypt ever again.

- Bangladeshis as a nation, hate the Pakistani/Saudi supported "Jamaat e Islami".

- A Malaysian from Kelantan state (Malaysia's most Islamic region) complained about the incompetent (and somewhat corrupt if I remember correctly) nature of PAS.

2013 has been a very important year in the history of the Islamic world. The "Muslim" (Mufsid) brotherhood has been overthrown by people in the country of its origin. This knocks out the confidence out of the various Ikhwani sister parties across the globe.

The fact is the sort of pseudo-Islamic system that the Mufsid Brotherhood advocate is not true Islam and will not work especially in a world of increasing social media, global integration and so forth.

I would like to congratulate our brothers and sisters in Egypt for overthrowing the Mufsid brotherhood.

[Shah-i-Kot]

Those so called "Pakistanis" were probably BLA terrorists, the Iranians want Pakistan to annihilate all of those BLA/BRA rebels, but Pakistan isn't as hardcore as the Iranians, but I think we should listen to them, and end this rebellion once and for all.

The cross border attack was attributed to Jundullah. On the same day, there was another cross border attack coming from Iraq on Iraq-Iran border.

The coordination of the two cross border attacks points to Saudi Arabia having a role in it with Pakistani compliance. Bandar must have given Pakistan a recent financial package under guise of economic aid.

This is obviously a shadow war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Saudi is opposed to Iran's military involvement in Syria to support Assad's dictatorship.

[Bengal_Tiger]

The cross border attack was attributed to Jundullah. On the same day, there was another cross border attack coming from Iraq on Iraq-Iran border.

The coordination of the two cross border attacks to Saudi Arabia having a role in it with Pakistani compliance.

Thanks for this information, I did not know this. Unlike some of the rubbish written here by Pakistanis and Ikhwanis I find your posts useful.

1. I cannot know for sure but merely theorize that the Iranian leadership knows full well that this was a joint Saudi-Pakistani operation but not disclosing it to the public, but instead merely allowing them the general Iranian public to get furious, thus sending a message to the Saudis and Pakistanis.

2. If the Pakistanis - who are being bombed every week by the Americans and getting their country ripped in pieces with virtually daily terrorist bombings - have chosen to side with the Saudis and to provoke Iran, this is sheer stupidity of the highest order.

a: Iran is militarily stronger than Pakistan with a better army despite all the irrelevant Pakistani boasting of their nuclear bomb (some even speculate that secretly it may have been dismantled due to American insistence but this has been kept secret).

Iran, which I am no fan of, was devastated by a revolution when Saddam attacked but despite the fact that the Iraqis backed by the entire Arab world and funded by the Gulf Arabs with billions of dollars, the Iranians held their ground and defended their borders.

Pakistan on the other hand was defeated in the 1971 war on the Pakistan-India border with the Indians capturing 13,000km of Pakistani land.

It was only Indian generosity that led to the land being returned to the Pakistanis, through the Simla accord.

The accord also gave back more than 13,000 km² of land that Indian troops had seized in West Pakistan during the war, though India retained a few strategic areas

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- America bombs Pakistan with drones every week (in reality Pashtun villagers that the Punjabi elite in Lahore and Islamabad could give a damn about)

- Iran shoots down US drones.



Iranians display a captured American drone.

b. The last thing that war-torn and poverty-stricken Pakistan needs to do is to provoke war with the relatively stable, much more powerful, more industrialized and wealthy Iran.

Pakistan is being torn to pieces by the TTP, BLA and a low-intensity war in Kashmir against India, the last thing the stupid and corrupt generals of Rawalpindi need to do is to provoke the regional giant to their west, Iran.

Iran will teach them a very painful lesson if Pakistan keeps on provoking Iran.

I can't believe this stupidity, even by Pakistani standards.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Iran sending a tough message to the Pakistani-Saudi axis. It will be interesting to see how the brutal and evil generals of Rawalpindi and the corrupt princes of Riyadh react to this.


Iran wants Pakistan action on border raid

Tue Oct 29, 2013 10:21AM

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham has called on Pakistan to identify, apprehend and extradite the perpetrators of a recent terrorist attack that killed 14 Iranian border guards.


During her weekly press conference on Tuesday, Afkham condemned the terrorist attack that killed the 14 Iranian border guards and wounded three others in the border region of Saravan in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan-and-Baluchestan on October 25.

She added that Iran is pursuing the implementation of a security agreement between Tehran and Islamabad.

In February, Iran and Pakistan signed a security agreement, under which both countries are required to cooperate in preventing and combating organized crime, fighting terrorism and countering the activities that pose a threat to the national security of either country.

Referring to the fact that the whole region suffers from terrorist activities, Afkham expressed hope that this ominous phenomenon would be eradicated through the cooperation of all countries.

Earlier on Tuesday, Pakistan’s chargé d'affaires in Tehran Sohail Siddiqui told IRNA that Pakistani officials are pursuing the matter and that if the perpetrators of the attack are found to be on Pakistani soil, they will be extradited to Iran according to the extradition treaty between the two countries.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry had summoned Siddiqui on Saturday to convey to the Islamabad government the Islamic Republic’s protest over the deadly attack.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has called for an investigation into the incident, tasking the Foreign Ministry with taking the necessary measures to implement the border security agreement with Pakistan.


PressTV - Iran wants Pakistan action on border raid


Also:

At any rate, an armed group capable of killing fourteen Iranian border agents, especially when Iran doesn’t seem to be claiming that their agents were able to kill any of the attackers, sounds like a serious escalation of the firepower involved in these skirmishes on the Iran-Pakistan border. Especially given the assassination on January 11, 2012 following a smaller, but otherwise similar skirmish on January 1, we are left to wonder how many operatives may have gone into Iran while this battle took place and who their targets will be.

The timing of this attack also stands out as quite significant. On the very same weekend that Iran was seen to be removing posters with anti-American slogans in Tehran, this border skirmish forced Iran to re-run its usual descriptions of the CIA training and funding Jundallah terrorists. Both the Israelis, who are upset over apparent diplomatic progress on US-Iranian nuclear negotiations, and the Saudis, who are upset over that and the lack of an attack on Syria, would seem to benefit from such an irritation of old wounds.

Today’s New York Times also points out that two members of the Rigi family, which is prominent within Jundallah, were killed earlier this month in Iran, so that is another likely contributor to the timing of this attack.

- See more at: Who Is Behind Latest Iran-Pakistan Border Incident? Who Benefits? | emptywheel



and on that webpage someone posts and says the following.

Who Benefits? Many possibilities here, many variables.

Look at the area: Sistan-Balouchestan, the largest province in Iran is a Sunni-dominated province, AKA West Balochistan, annexed in 1928 to Iran in the Reza Shah Pahlavi era. The population comprises the Baluch who form a majority in the province, followed by the second largest, the Sistani Persians. The province today is the most underdeveloped, desolate, and poorest of Iran’s provinces, and reportedly there has been repression from Tehran. The hoped-for Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline passes through this province, but ends at the border. Pakistan desperately needs the gas for electric power but the uS won’t allow the pipeline.

Look at one of the principal cities, Chahbahar on the coast on the Gulf of Oman. This is the port city of a New Silk Road, going with Indian goods up through Afghanistan to Central Asia and returning goods and iron ore from Afghanistan. India has invested in the port and the highway, and wants to build a railroad north. China has recently made an offer of development too. In December 2010, 11 Baluchi prisoners were executed after an explosion in a mosque in the port city of Chabahar.

Look at the US policy not only in West Balochistan but also across the border in East Balochistan, Pakistan. Fred Burton, a former US state department counter-terrorism agent, said: “The latest attacks inside Iran fall in line with US efforts to supply and train Iran’s ethnic minorities to destabilize the Iranian regime.” The CIA is also probably involved in running drugs from Afghanistan into Iran. Yes, Instability-’R-Us is here, causing instability on both sides of the border to counter China, Pakistan and Iran.

- See more at: Who Is Behind Latest Iran-Pakistan Border Incident? Who Benefits? | emptywheel





Iran-Pakistan pipeline.


1. The Iraqi attack along with the Pakistani attack suggests a Saudi hand with the Pakistanis colluding with the Saudis either with or without US approval/instigation.

2. Why would Saudi want to do this? If it is deliberately to sabotage Iran-Pakistan relations and their potential gas pipe line, then the corrupt thieves and generals of Rawalpindi are even more stupid than anyone could imagine.

3. If it is merely to weaken Iran by supporting Balochis/Sunni militants then the Pakistanis are playing a dangerous game as such militants can target Pakistan later on.

Either way the moronic generals of Rawalpindi who steal millions and live in villas whilst millions of Pakistanis virtually starve are on another level of sheer stupidity.

[Tiger Khan]

1. Ikhwanul Muslimeen or "Ikhwanul Mufsideen" (Brothers of corruption or literally corrupt doers) are a failure.

They started off in Egypt, and they have proven to be a failure. After less than 12 months, Egyptians had enough of them and millions of Egytpians who are all Muslims and pray and fast demanded their removal, which Alhamdulilah the Egyptian army did.

2. Ikhwanul Mufsideen is an ally of its local variants in Pakistan and Bangladesh by the name of "Jamaat e Islami" and the Ikhwan when in power in Egypt vocally backed Bangladesh's Jamaatis, a party of war criminals.

But Allah is great and has removed Ikhwanul Mufsideen from power in Egypt, has stopped the Saudi goal of destroying the Syrian government, has banned the Jamaat in Bangladesh (they exist but are not allowed to contest elections).

3. I have spoken to Muslims, my brothers from across the ummah and they are disillusioned with so-called "Islamic" parties. All parties are corrupt but is worse when this corruption is done in the name of "Islam".

- I spoke to a Tunisian brother, he hated An-Nahda.

- I spoke to people and Ikhwanul Mufsideen is hated in Egypt and most likely these troublemakers will not be power in Egypt ever again.

- Bangladeshis as a nation, hate the Pakistani/Saudi supported "Jamaat e Islami".

- A Malaysian from Kelantan state (Malaysia's most Islamic region) complained about the incompetent (and somewhat corrupt if I remember correctly) nature of PAS.

2013 has been a very important year in the history of the Islamic world. The "Muslim" (Mufsid) brotherhood has been overthrown by people in the country of its origin. This knocks out the confidence out of the various Ikhwani sister parties across the globe.

The fact is the sort of pseudo-Islamic system that the Mufsid Brotherhood advocate is not true Islam and will not work especially in a world of increasing social media, global integration and so forth.

I would like to congratulate our brothers and sisters in Egypt for overthrowing the Mufsid brotherhood.

yes.,. because i dont know of any place in Islam.. for An Islamic Polictical Party.. I know about pakistani Islamic Political Parties.. if they are not corrupt .. than they are incompetent.. case in point Maulana Fazulul rehman's (Jamiat Ulema Islam).. he is a hispocrit and so are his other mates.. they take ministeries where alot of money can be made under the table and they actually manipulate people (Especially pashtuns) in the name of religion.. Also look at Jamat-i Islamic.. they mabe are not as corrupt as JUI, but are incompetent..
See whenever muslim political party gains power in our part of the world,,. all hell breaks loose on muslim women with all there restrictions.. etc etc.. other than that they dont do any developmental stuff.. Look at MMA in KPK, they had nothing to show for in KPK, ANP had done more work then them..

[Bengal_Tiger]

In Bangladesh, Jamaat e Islami were apparently given money by Arabs to help Rohingyas. Jamaati leaders stole the money and kept it for themselves.

This is what [MENTION=3580]asad71[/MENTION] said.

[Bengal_Tiger]

IRAN WILL PROBABLY CANCEL IRAN-PAKISTAN GAS PIPELINE

Farsnews


1. Pakistan continuously talks about "Muslim brotherhood" (whilst discriminating against Muslim Bengalis and then genociding them and destabilizing Muslim Afghanistan) but does not practise it.

a: The Iranians had built their side of the pipeline, the Pakistanis haven't.

b: The Pakistanis agreed on price and then now have suddenly "changed" their minds and want a cheaper price.

The Iranians have learnt how unreliable and untrustworthy the Pakistanis are.

Pakistani nationalists online are justifying this Pakistani move by saying they are scared of America and the sanctions it will place on the "mighty" Pakistan.

So what is the point of boasting that you are a "nuclear superpower", if you live in fear of the US and what it will do to you? The same US that bombs Pakistan on a weekly basis.



2. Pakistani nationalists continuously misuse and exploit the "Muslim" card to cheat Bengalis, Afghans, Balochis, Pashtuns and Sindhis and demand subservience to them based on "Muslim unity" but cannot even co-operate with a Muslim country like Iran.

Also these characters have an inferiority complex and talk about how they are "Iranian/Arab/Turkish/Afghan" lineage, but none of these states would want to be in a EU-style union with them, let alone a federation.

Pakistan backstabs Muslims again.

It backstabbed Muslim Bengalis from 1948-71.

It backstabbed the Muslims of Burma recently by training the murderous Burmese military.

It backstabbed Pashtun Muslims by siding with America to bomb them.

Despite that it will never cease to continue trying to exploit the "Muslim" card for its own self-interest and benefit.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Iran ends cooperation agreement with Pakistan

By Ahmad Ahmadani
October 18, 2014




ISLAMABAD: Iran has unilaterally ended the government-to-government cooperation agreement with Pakistan, and after this decision the much-talked-about Iran-Pakistan IP gas pipeline project has become unfeasible, sources told Daily Times.

A copy of official documents seen by Daily Times disclosed that the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources on October 2 revealed to the federal cabinet’s ECC that Iran has unilaterally ended government-to-government cooperation agreement with Pakistan and is not even prepared to offer $500 million for the construction of the long-awaited IP gas pipeline project. With this decision the IP gas pipeline project, in its present form, has become not feasible.

According to an agreement signed earlier between the two countries for the supply of natural gas to the country, Pakistan had been made bound to purchase gas from Iran till December 2014. Pakistan would pay one million dollars per day as penalty to Iran in case of its failure to purchase the Iranian gas. It has also been told to the ECC that Inter State Gas System; a company of petroleum ministry has issued a notice to Iran on IP gas pipeline project. The ISGS has claimed forced majeure on the basis of international sanctions on Iran, while under the forced majeure it has become unfeasible for Pakistan to work on the said gas import project. A clause of forced majeure has been included in the IP agreement, Petroleum Ministry informed the ECC meeting. Officials in the Petroleum Ministry believe that if sanctions on Iran are lifted in the future, Pakistan would have to ink a new agreement with Tehran for the purchase of Iranian gas to meet its energy demands. “Force majeure has been claimed under the IP gas line project,” a source said.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/18-Oct-2014/iran-ends-cooperation-agreement-with-pakistan

1. Iran was very keen on building an Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline to help its economy, which would naturally help the Pakistani economy too.


2. The Iranians built their side of the pipe but the Pakistanis did not build their side.

It's speculated that it was the Saudis who bribed the Pakistanis in to not building this pipeline.

Saudi Arabia did what the US could not do to keep Pakistan away from a $7.5-billion gas pipeline project with Iran. In a tit-for-tat deal, Saudi Arabia might have persuaded Islamabad to cancel the Iran-Pakistan (IP) pipeline project, which is vital to end energy shortages that are crippling Pakistan's economy.

Pakistan's oil minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, after receiving funds from Saudi Arabia last month, reportedly said work on the pipeline was not possible because of sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union on Iran over its nuclear
program. Iran has warned that Islamabad is contractually obliged to complete the project which would allow Tehran to export gas to its southeastern neighbor.

"Iran has carried out its commitments ... and expects the Pakistani side to honor its own," Iran's deputy oil minister Ali Majedi was reported to have said. "They should even pick up the pace of work and make up for falling behind schedule in constructing Pakistan's [780-kilometer] side of the pipeline."

Iran has already laid the pipeline its side up to its border with Pakistan.

March 2014 Asia Times:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/SOU-02-210314.html

3. The Pakistani article above blames the Iranians for not giving Pakistan $500 million for building its side.

Iran has unilaterally ended government-to-government cooperation agreement with Pakistan and is not even prepared to offer $500 million for the construction of the long-awaited IP gas pipeline project.

Why should Iran give Pakistanis half a billion dollars for building a pipeline on the Pakistani side?

Especially given the Pakistanis had not even carried out any major work to finish the pipeline?



4. Pakistan boasts of being a "nuclear" power day and night but:

- Gets droned by Americans

- Bombed by India after attacking India when Pakistan lost to India in a hockey match.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/enraged-pakistan-opened-fire-after-asian-games-hockey-loss-say-bsf-sources/504937-3-245.html

- Gets its airports attacked by militants

- Is struggling to deal with Taliban and Baloch rebels.