Pakistan Still Focusing on India

They've got an insurgency in their back yard, a nuclear arsenal, and unstable neighbors. So let's make sure we're ready to fight the behemoth country next door!

Pakistan's army will launch its biggest maneuvers in 20 years next week to deal with the threat of conventional war with old rival India, military officials said on Monday.

Pakistan and India have fought three wars since their independence from British rule in 1947 and ties have been strained since an attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in November 2008 blamed on Pakistan-based Islamist militants.

But Pakistan's Western allies, in particular the United States, want it to focus on militants who have expanded their fight from remote western regions on the Afghan border to cities and towns and across the country.

The exercise, code-named, Azm-e-Nau (New Resolve) 3, will begin on April 10 and will last until May 13 and will involve nearly 50,000 troops.

"These exercises will be focused only on conventional war on the eastern border," Major-General Muzamil Hussain, director-general of army training, told a news briefing.

By: Brant