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**reachmanxx** · 09-29-2010, 03:27 AM

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Monday, 27 September 2010 (Vol. 11, No. 36)

The great game's new players

*Jaswant Singh
NEW DELHI: Two "great games" currently roil South Asia. In the West, Afghanistan - and what Henry Kissinger calls "Islamist Jihadists" - challenges the international order.

In the East, a large number of Chinese troops have entered Pakistani-held territory high in the mountain fastness of the Kashmir Karakorams, in the picturesque Gilgit-Baltistan region, not far from the glacial battlefield of Siachen, where India and Pakistan confront each other.

Senge Hasan Sering, from Skardu, the director of the Gilgit-Baltistan National Congress, believes that the number of Chinese People's Liberation Army troops now present "could be over 11,000," as there are also additional "PLA construction corps personnel" deployed. It is here that China is currently investing "billions of dollars in mega projects like expressways, tunnels, and oil and gas pipelines." This, Sering says, is "surely not on account of any overflowing altruism."

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reachmanxx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 542 Senior Member	THE GREAT GAME: NEW PLAYERS http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=2&...ember/Monday27 Monday, 27 September 2010 (Vol. 11, No. 36) The great game's new players *Jaswant Singh NEW DELHI: Two "great games" currently roil South Asia. In the West, Afghanistan - and what Henry Kissinger calls "Islamist Jihadists" - challenges the international order. In the East, a large number of Chinese troops have entered Pakistani-held territory high in the mountain fastness of the Kashmir Karakorams, in the picturesque Gilgit-Baltistan region, not far from the glacial battlefield of Siachen, where India and Pakistan confront each other. Senge Hasan Sering, from Skardu, the director of the Gilgit-Baltistan National Congress, believes that the number of Chinese People's Liberation Army troops now present "could be over 11,000," as there are also additional "PLA construction corps personnel" deployed. It is here that China is currently investing "billions of dollars in mega projects like expressways, tunnels, and oil and gas pipelines." This, Sering says, is "surely not on account of any overflowing altruism." CONTINUED AT LENGTH.
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