Sistan-Baluchestan in Iran borders Baluchestan in Pakistan.
Special Forces from the US and Britain recently trained in the Pakistani port city of Karachi in areas that resemble Iranian cities, UPI reported quoting sources in the Pakistani intelligence.
On Jan 11, the troops conducted an anti-hijacking drill on a Pakistan International Airlines aircraft at an isolated place several miles from the main terminal, the sources said.
During the exercise, the US and British troops showed particular interest in areas inhabited by Baluch tribesmen and Iranian refugees, where several key Al Qaeda terrorists are also believed to have taken refuge after escaping from Afghanistan following the US military operation against the Taliban in October 2001. #msg-6570194
This has very little if anything to do with al Qaeda, this is about the US killing innocent Iranians!
One of the ways we are threatening China is by attempting to control the flow of oil.
In a world that runs on oil, the nation that controls the flow of oil has great strategic power. U.S. policy-makers want leverage over the economies of competitors -- Western Europe, Japan and China -- that are more dependent on Middle Eastern oil. #msg-4798276
Xinjiang and Gwadar port are mentioned in the following text as places or a means by which China can obtain oil. The United States is involved in and using clandestine methods by which to contain China in both Xinjiang and Gwadar
China has already protested the establishment of a Uighur Government-in-Exile in Washington and Beijing has repeatedly made it clear that it will not tolerate any political interference from abroad, where pro-independence Uighur organizations exist. This means us. It would seem we are orchestrating a riot in the Uigher/Xinjiang province of China. #msg-4098311
Gwadar port a proposed gateway for the external trade of the Xinjiang province and a promising regional base for the Chinese navy. #msg-4812853
Writing for the New York Times, Nayan Chanda, former editor of Far Eastern Economic Review, says, "Port's projected size and strategic location have sent ripples of anxiety through Washington, Tokyo and New Delhi about the potential establishment of a permanent Chinese naval presence near the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 per cent of the world's oil passes. #msg-6106071 #msg-4812853
Gwadar port is in Balochistan right next door to Sistan-Baluchestan province where it looks like the US has just murdered innocent Iranians. #msg-10217316
There has to be a connection between all of this. I am wondering if we are not only inciting unrest in Balochistan but perhaps trying to draw Iran across the border or somehow involve Iran?
At any rate Bush will try and stop the ‘energy corridor' mentioned in this article.
-Am
Pakistan, China, Saudi Arabia eye 'energy corridor' project:
Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)ISLAMABAD, March 16_(Kyodo) _ Saudi Arabia, China and Pakistan are examining the feasibility of developing an "energy corridor" for transporting Saudi refined oil products to China via Pakistan, a Pakistani newspaper reported Thursday.
The Business Recorder quoted oil minister Naseer Khan Mengal as saying the issue was discussed between Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz and Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf during the king's visit to Pakistan in February.
Musharraf also discussed it with Chinese leaders when he visited Beijing last month, the newspaper said.
The development of the energy corridor includes the construction of a refinery in Pakistan's coastal city of Gwader and laying an oil pipeline from Gwader to China's Xinjiang bordering Pakistan.
China is now engaged in the construction of a deep channel port in Gwader and Pakistan plans to develop it as a trade and energy corridor with China and Central Asia.
Pakistan has been considering importing gas from Qatar, Iran and Turkmenistan for its own consumption and a possible supply to India for more than 15 years. Feasibility studies have been conducted but no concrete progress has been made so far.
ISLAMABAD (March 16 2006): Pakistan will help China in the construction of the strategic pipeline from Gwadar to its borders enabling it to import oil from Saudi Arabia.
Talking to Business Recorder on Wednesday, State Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Naseer Khan Mengal, said that Pakistan would assist China either in extending the country's white oil pipeline, or constructing a new one to meet its energy requirement by importing oil from Saudi Arabia.
Commenting on President General Pervez Musharraf's offer of 'trade corridor' in his recent trip to China, the minister said that actually King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia wanted to increase oil exports to China. He (Abdullah), later shared the matter with Musharraf to help Saudi Arabia in extending oil exports to China, Mengal said.
The minister said that oil import from Saudi Arabia, or any of Gulf countries, was not only viable but also the shortest possible option to import oil through Pakistan.
He said that China had expressed willingness to construct oil refinery in Gwadar. Pakistan has a liberal policy of investment in petroleum sector and, to construct oil refinery, only NOC from the ministry was required.
About IPI pipeline without India, Mengal said, "We are a sovereign state, and the Secretary-level talks mean that Pakistan is serious to execute the project solely."
Elaborating on Qatar pipeline and import of LNG, he said, "We are pursuing all projects, as our economic growth demands more energy."
About transfer of the function of price fixing of petroleum products from OCAC to Ogra, the minister said that the decision was taken on public demand. "Time will tell whether it benefits the consumers or not."
In reply to a question about adulteration in petroleum products, he said that the ministry had nothing to do with, it as the provincial and district governments had the power to check this malpractice.
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