The newspaper reported Saturday that a prankster posing as Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee was patched through to Zardari Nov 28 and threatened military action by India if Pakistan did not act against the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks.
In a knee-jerk reaction, Pakistan put its armed forces on alert and threatened to remove its troops from the border with Afghanistan and send them to the border with India.

It was only after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to Mukherjee, who denied telephoning Zardari, ‘did it become clear that the presidency had been the victim of a prank and the tension in the region began to lower’, the Dawn editorial said.

After the incident, ‘the dim view that world capitals take of Pakistan will only have grown dimmer now that it has been revealed that a major non-NATO ally of the US, a nuclear-armed nation and a country flush with militants and weapons and with the world’s seventh largest standing army nearly catastrophically raised tensions in South Asia in reaction to just a prank call!!!’ the editorial said in a strongly worded editorial.

Source: Yahoo News.

Thanks God that the prankster didn’t talk as Sarah Palin, else Pakistani President would had been heartbroken  

Jokes apart, on a more serious note – How easily can anyone get through & threaten the President of Pakistan!! Is it just a call that is all required to shake-up the Pakistani Ministery & Military

 India and United States had set up a 48 hour time for Pakistan to formulate a plan to take action against Lashkar (militant group) and to arrest at least three Pakistanis who according to the Indian authorities are linked to the Mumbai assaults. India has also asked Pakistan to arrest and hand over Lashkar commander Zaki ur-Rehman Lakhwi and former ISI director Hamid Gul in connection with the investigation.

US Secretary of State – Condoleezza Rice on her visit to India & Pakistan had pressed Pakistan for ground action & not just put up a blame game. Earlier on 4 December Pakistani media claimed that the Mumbai attacks were carried out by India, US & Israel! That’s moronic I think!

It would be interesting to see what turns out in the coming hours, as it is said that these 48 hours are crucial for Pakistan. US had said that if Pakistan doesn’t take actions then US would be forced to take any action. India had already given deadline for Pakistan, which hopefully Pakistan would abide by. Else it would have to face the heat of not only India, but also USA & the international community.

Till now India hasn’t ruled out a military strike. The US president elect – Barack Obama has supported India & had said that every sovereign country has total right to protect its land. Probably indirectly means that India if needed can take out a military strike if that’s in the best interest of India.

What the future holds, is unknown at the moment, but one thing is for sure. If a military strike is carried out in the time when the whole world is undergoing ‘Economic Recession’, then it would cripple Pak (if there be any pak left after the nuke bombings!). This is too much into the future I think.. but Pakistan should know that it should stop playing games else its gonna be hard for them very soon.

The general waves going on in India is that India should strike Pakistan, as Pak had never learned from the past, enough is enough. Pak says something and does something else in real. Recently the many U-turns taken by the Pakistan Government from their statements are a clear indication of this.

Since Pakistan just don’t undersand things & still provide shelter & training to terrorists, who carry out terrorist attacks not only in India but through out the world – time has come for them to learn some hard lessons.

If India doesn’t take out a military strike, then atleast India should make sure that Pakistan would never repeat all this, what they had been doing for ages!

x Dedicated to all those brave souls who lost their lives in the Mumbai Blasts. x

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In Flames ~ Hotel Taj - India

• 100 dead, 270 injured till now in the terrorist attack that took place in Mumbai – the biggest terrorist attack in Mumbai till date.
• Terror attacks in 11 different places in Mumbai.
• Schools, colleges remain closed. BSE sensex also remained closed.
• Several foreigners taken hostage. According to reports, terrorists were asking  for passports probably to seek out the British & American nationals.
• Links of the terrorist strike relates to Pakistan, although Pakistani ministry proposing to extend any type of help for the fight against terrorism.

• Black cat commandos, Rapid Action Force, Army & Navy set into action to counter the present situation & for safe release of the hostages held inside the Taj & the Oberoi Hotels.

These wimps think that they can take down humanity by their stupid acts. But these wimps forget so quickly that every time they raise their head of ‘terrorism’, humanity had trampled them! Lets be together & fight against terrorism.