Originally appeared at ZeroHedge
Officials at India’s two main ports warned Thur., that Pakistan-trained commandos are in the vicinity of those ports and are preparing terrorist attacks against vessels, Reuters reported.
The Mundra Port, the largest private port of India located on the north shores of the Gulf of Kutch near Mundra, in the Kutch district, and the state-owned Kandla Port, also located on the Gulf of Kutch, have had government advisories posted at both facilities warning employees and ship operators to be extra vigilant in the weeks ahead for Pakistani terrorists.
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We have reported for most of the year about the rising tensions between India and Pakistan on the Line of Control (LoC) in the Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Earlier this month, India revoked the special status of its portion of Kashmir and moved to shut down communications and bring the area to a standstill.
Pakistan responded with cutting trade and transport routes into India and even ejected India’s ambassador.
Both countries almost sparked a massive regional conflict near Kashmir in February/March after Indian aggression led to Pakistan shooting down two Indian Air Force jets.
On Thursday, Pakistan tested new surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, which was viewed as hostile by India.
India has spent the last month moving troops and heavy artillery pieces to the LoC, in preparation for a full out conflict with Pakistan.
In recent weeks, both countries have been involved in cross-border skirmishes along the LoC. If the conflict picks up steam, this could be one of the most dangerous nuclear flashpoints for 2020.
Venu Gopal, secretary of a trust that runs Kandla Port, confirmed the threat to Reuters.
“We’ve reviewed the situation and instructed our security personnel to beef up security at vital installations and vulnerable areas,” he said.
A vessel advisory issued by the Mundra Port told all vessels to “take utmost security measures and maintain a vigilant watch.”
A spokesman for Pakistan’s military told Reuters that “India is trying to divert the attention of the world from Kashmir. There has been no such movement.”
The threat of war between India and Pakistan comes at a time when India’s economy is imploding. The country’s automobile market accounts for more than 50% of the country’s manufacturing output, just had its steepest decline in auto sales since December 2000. Automobile companies, directly and indirectly, employ more than 35 million people, which already, hundreds of thousands of people have been laid off.
The current manufacturing slowdown in India is cyclical and isn’t expected to trough for the next few years. This could mean India would be willing to respond with a shooting war with Pakistan if vessels were blown up at its ports. War is the best fiscal stimulus, and it might be the right prescription to revive India’s crashing manufacturing sector.
But but I’m so confused; who to root for? I mean, India likes Russia and we like Russia so let’s back India; only Pakis are underdogs and they hate Americans and they really hate Jews, and we basically hate Jews (for good reasons, not the silly Muslim reasons) and we basically hate America (again, for good reasons, not the silly muslim reasons). So we root for Pakistan, yes? Except, the thing is we hate the Sunni/Wahhabi type Muslims the most, don’t we? And those are the kind that Pakistan produces. But India is friendly to Israel! Dammit who do we hate?
The Indians aren’t known for their support of terrorists, the Paks are. And this current round of hostilities started with a terror attack against India by Pak supported terrorists. If you wrestle in the pig sty you’re going to get dirty. The Paks would be better off putting some distance between themselves and the western Jew run terror operation.
Ever since the CIA, Bush Sr., and bin Laden created Al Qaeda in the early eighties, the US has used Pakistan a their base for their war in Afghanistan. Pakistan Intel was tied into Saudi Arabia so tightly, they were given the contract to do all of Saudi Arabia’s Intel. Pakistan is Wahhabi operations central.
India would do well for itself to take Iran and Russia as “Anti-Jihadi Allies”, and let China know it needs to adopt the same mind set.
India can handle the Paks. Pakistan joined the SCO. It should put it’s terror affiliations with both the US and the Saudis behind it. And end it’s integration into the Jew world order terror nexus and concentrate on developing it’s own ties and economy with non Jew world order subversives.
They are both basically shitholes and let the good lord sort it out.