Pakistan increased defence spending by nearly 7 percent on Wednesday, to 296.07 billion rupees ($4.4 billion), for the 2008-09 fiscal year starting on July 1.
I donno whether we were right or not, that's a really tough call. I also assume (perhaps with a degree of naivity) that this wasn't an intentional sort of assault on Pakistan, which is a nuclear power. All that aside, if there's a country we have to fear in the short term, it's probably Pakistan.
The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, yesterday threatened to attack Taliban insurgents on Pakistani soil, saying his war-torn country had a right to do so out of "self-defence".
Meh, they could blow up India probably. And we like India here in the US. And we don't have a good track record of taking things like that in stride...