Pakistan Let Iran Park Jets At Nur Khan Airbase To Shield From US Strike: Report

Then at the end of the war Iran didnt return the jets.

*I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world.*

So Pakistan now have new jets?

Painting small bombs on the side of the aircraft to symbolize completed bombing missions must get a little awkward.

And not just any military base,, but one of the most important ones where all high level pak officers are also trained and live, and closest military base to capital lol. 

Pakistan may need some freedom from the sound of it

Bold of you to assume the Pakistani govt and military is competent enough to pull that off

And Obama did nothing. Then Trump took office and his first overseas trip was to...England? Germany? Israel? Nope. Straight to his Wahhabi terrorist pals in The Kingdom, where he partied, danced, and cosplayed Jihad. Now he has his Qatar bribe jet, crypto fraud, and is still selling strangely overpriced Trump properties to men in robes. The American government bends the knee to terrorist Islamic states and nobody really seems to care (in the U.S., anyway).

>thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more! Well he's not wrong. It's just that he's the fool now. He's even proved it by them doing it to him too now.

I hate Trump but agree fully with that tweet from 2018.

Pakistan is the poster child for why places like North Korea and Iran want nuclear weapons. After 9/11, Afghanistan was invaded and occupied for helping Al Qaeda, while Pakistan, which was just as dirty, got billions in aid. The difference? The Bomb.

Pakistan has a whole business model built around playing the US for a sucker. It's possibly their single largest source of revenue. Ever since George Bush's war on terror, each incoming US President has believed that Pakistan "is with us" that *this time* they could be counted on to do what the US wants of them and by the time the sitting President grows disillusioned, their term is over and a new President comes in, and the whole cycle starts all over again. Every single time it ends the same way and yet the US never learns. Pakistan *will* stab the US in the back, *always.* Because if they don't the conflict gets wrapped up in the US' favor and as soon as the conflict is wrapped up, the gravy train to Pakistan ends. So it is in their best interests to keep conflicts going as long as possible. Because as long as that's happening, they're a needed US ally and that comes with privileges and favors - privileges and favors like the US turning a blind eye to Pakistan sponsoring terrorist groups to deploy against India.

That sounds way too coherent to be a trump quote.

Donald "Broken Clock" Trump.

> The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more! Didn't he also invite the Taliban to Camp David for secret talks?

Also gave shelter to the Taliban post 9/11.

Yes. The same Pakistan that had Govt officials attend a terrorist’s funeral along with fellow terrorists and head of a banned organisation, yet insisted they were civilians.

And the same Osama Bin Laden who was part of the mujahideen funded, well equiped, and trained by the CIA ?

They are a strategic ally but have always been a major ideological foe, this has not changed ever. And are mainly relevant due to having nukes and as a check against India during the cold war.

Let's also not forget that the bulk of the fertilizer used to make IEDs also came from Pakistan during the war in Afghanistan.

> How does this even work. Well if there was a declared war then a neutral nation would find harbouring the military assets of a combatant nation to be a problem, as in, risking its status as neutral. But, as it's only a special military operation, it's much less clear. All the traditional rules and conventions are out the window with the Orange Entity anyway, and his attitude reverses twice weekly, so who knows.

As a neutral mediator it makes complete sense to provide a neutral shelter imo. Proves commitment to peaceful resolution. As long as Iranian jets arent taking off and taking part in operations i dont see anything wrong with it.

Yes, it's a reflection of either incompetency and disagreement at the highest levels of their own government or it is an actual example of 4D chess. They are playing all sides, which any good middle power country basically has to do. They have to balance security and relationships with Iran, Saudi, US, India, and Russia effectively surrounding them. Not to mention at soft state of war with Afghanistan. No choice but to get crafty.

They aren't gonna steal them lol. The last thing Pakistan wants is its own war with Iran when it's already dealing with the oil shock from the US' war, a stalemated potential forever war with Afghanistan, and an ever more assertive India ready to hit back at Pakistan for all the shit they pull against it. Even its patron China would be against them doing that.

Pakistan already has miles better jets than this, they don't need them.

Have we not learned that US alliances mean nothing? They've been threatening NATO allies for the past year.

The Pakistanis got nothing as well. Oligarchs stashed it overseas

Even the Chinese government disliked them. During some confrontation between US and Chinese diplomats over Chinese support for Pakistan, one of them sarcastically remarked that "pakistan to us is what Israel is to the US"

They learned a lot from the US and Israel

You could make the same statement about the USA.

No idea man, after they hid Osama from us we should have cut relations (and definitely all aid). They are playing us and are not our ally

Nukes or no nukes, *you want Trump to start a war with yet another country?* Hasn't he messed up enough?

It has Nukes so it’s a legit sovereign country. Otherwise see: Ukraine, Iran.

The US is a state sponsor of Pakistan and...

PILOT, GRAPE! 🍇🇵🇰

>Sources told the American publication that Tehran moved several of its key defence assets to Pakistan Air Force Base in Nur Khan, ***located just outside Rawalpindi***. The strategically important military installation, ***located near Islamabad***, This is very much within the Pakistani govts. control. Irans' planes are there with their blessing.