Khanzeer
Banned
With the KSA/Pakistan and CIA supporting the afghan terrorists, and the ISI supporting the sikh terrorists in the 80s.It would have been only natural for the Indians and soviets to take joint action against pakistan.
.Their major objective would be to destroy the madrassas and the pak military training camps in NWFP.
The locals chiefs have never been entirely happy with the punjabi dominated pak army in the region if the soviets bribe the right leaders and do not push the socialistic agenda then they can get some genuine support amongst the locals against pak army.
Plus they can raise the issue of durand line, a soviet equipped afghan army is not attacking to fight another muslim country but to erase the durand line the hated partition of pukhtoon homeland by britishThey will make clear they have no designs on rest of pakistan
Plus the balochis ( another ethnic minority ) just recently rebelled against pak army in 70s allegedly with soviet help.
Indians have already had experience in fighting in kashmir for decades with aircover and pak army distracted by the soviets they would have no problem in securing the rest of kashmir and gain a strategic advantageous position in Punjab.Indian navy could easily blockade karachi and stop whatever help pakistan may get from its arab friends.
Allies- Many in the Arab world,KSA and UAE would be expected to offer the most help
regional allies China, how much it will do to actively help pakistanis is questionable
iran already occupied with iraq and no friend of zia anyway
USA : ?? military aid to pak increased substantially but how well can pak use it in such a short term.They will threaten the soviets but if will they risk WW3 over peshawar ? not likely
Objectives of indians/soviets
Indians : to occupy the pak administered kashmir and strategic areas
Soviets to do the same in the frontier province of pakistan formerly known as NWFP/FATA ostentasiously to satisfy the territorial dispute in favor of afghans.But main reason is to destroy the military infrastructure of pak army there.
They do have local allies, late ZA Bhutto's son Murtaza runs a terrorist outfit determined to overthrow Zia and is at odds with the military establishment
pak nukes are of tactical value only, can be delivered only by aircraft and no major soviet cities within range.
If the soviet/indian forces stay out of the major population centers of punjab/sindh there would be no reason why the pak generals would feel forced to use the nukes.And if they do the allies would have the perfect excuse to totally obliterate pakistani military and economic capability
end by 1986
1-india takes azad kashmir
2-Afghan army with soviet support takes FATA areas and starts a anti-punjabi feeling in rest of NWFP with a almost civil war state with paksitan airforce driven from the air by mass airstrikes on their bases there and its major army units hammered by soviet airforces.A pushtoon nationalist govt is formed there that declares independence from pakistan and alliance with afghanistan.
3-Parts of Balochistan with soviet help become no-go areas for pak army and a huge insurgency starts there
4-USA threatens war if soviet/afghans cross the indus or if indians cross the punjab boundry and fighting dies down.Big insurgencies in NWFP and balochistan remain
5 pakistani rump state is too weak to support any of their own insurgencies and with so many military units destroyed in kashmir and NWFP the pak army is much weaker
.Their major objective would be to destroy the madrassas and the pak military training camps in NWFP.
The locals chiefs have never been entirely happy with the punjabi dominated pak army in the region if the soviets bribe the right leaders and do not push the socialistic agenda then they can get some genuine support amongst the locals against pak army.
Plus they can raise the issue of durand line, a soviet equipped afghan army is not attacking to fight another muslim country but to erase the durand line the hated partition of pukhtoon homeland by britishThey will make clear they have no designs on rest of pakistan
Plus the balochis ( another ethnic minority ) just recently rebelled against pak army in 70s allegedly with soviet help.
Indians have already had experience in fighting in kashmir for decades with aircover and pak army distracted by the soviets they would have no problem in securing the rest of kashmir and gain a strategic advantageous position in Punjab.Indian navy could easily blockade karachi and stop whatever help pakistan may get from its arab friends.
Allies- Many in the Arab world,KSA and UAE would be expected to offer the most help
regional allies China, how much it will do to actively help pakistanis is questionable
iran already occupied with iraq and no friend of zia anyway
USA : ?? military aid to pak increased substantially but how well can pak use it in such a short term.They will threaten the soviets but if will they risk WW3 over peshawar ? not likely
Objectives of indians/soviets
Indians : to occupy the pak administered kashmir and strategic areas
Soviets to do the same in the frontier province of pakistan formerly known as NWFP/FATA ostentasiously to satisfy the territorial dispute in favor of afghans.But main reason is to destroy the military infrastructure of pak army there.
They do have local allies, late ZA Bhutto's son Murtaza runs a terrorist outfit determined to overthrow Zia and is at odds with the military establishment
pak nukes are of tactical value only, can be delivered only by aircraft and no major soviet cities within range.
If the soviet/indian forces stay out of the major population centers of punjab/sindh there would be no reason why the pak generals would feel forced to use the nukes.And if they do the allies would have the perfect excuse to totally obliterate pakistani military and economic capability
end by 1986
1-india takes azad kashmir
2-Afghan army with soviet support takes FATA areas and starts a anti-punjabi feeling in rest of NWFP with a almost civil war state with paksitan airforce driven from the air by mass airstrikes on their bases there and its major army units hammered by soviet airforces.A pushtoon nationalist govt is formed there that declares independence from pakistan and alliance with afghanistan.
3-Parts of Balochistan with soviet help become no-go areas for pak army and a huge insurgency starts there
4-USA threatens war if soviet/afghans cross the indus or if indians cross the punjab boundry and fighting dies down.Big insurgencies in NWFP and balochistan remain
5 pakistani rump state is too weak to support any of their own insurgencies and with so many military units destroyed in kashmir and NWFP the pak army is much weaker
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