Likewise as man slumbers in his immediate calm, great waves of change are altering the course of the global scenario all the time, but man reckons them only when they have reached the threshold of his door. The Afghans, hardened by the terrain and cut off from modernity, would have had no clue, what fate was being planned for them in the think-tanks of the West, as they wrote their plan, prior 9/11, to occupy and devour this unalarmed people in the name of a un-called-for democracy. Nor would they be apprehensive of the possibility that India, having no connection with them via ground or water or culture, was to become their self-assumed savior, landing its troops, its intelligence and its technical funds on their ground.
Just as the same Afghans had no clue post Soviet Invasion their country would be ruled by savages with assistance from a nation they perceived as a foreign puppet.
Therefore with a full decade behind them and not a single parameter which measures in success, the US/NATO and their partner-in-crime India are indeed showing all signs of bafflement and fear in their act of retreat. It is fear that forces one to act irrationally and it is fear that one hides under his erratic and incoherent behavior.
India a NATO partner?
Never came across that phrase in relation to India in NATO official website
NATO cooperates on an individual basis with a number of partner countries which are not part of its other partnership frameworks (i.e. the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council/Partnership for Peace, the Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative). Formally referred to as “partners across the globe” – but often simply as “global partners” – they include Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Mongolia
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Don't see India among the above nations.
India in more on the hit-and–trial version, it has shown in time that its foreign policy is not based on long-term stability measures, confidence building or conflict resolution, like an aiming-to-be regional power, one sober with prudence and abreast with secular diplomacy, *should be behaving. Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka; India poses to have great ties with each of them once they are ready to its intervention in their internal politics and foreign policy, otherwise ‘big-brother’ India is unhappy.
This is one part, i"ll partially agree with the author.
India lays claim on Kachativu Island belonging to Sri Lanka.
Crap quality journalism
Kachativu island now belongs to Sri Lanka
Kachativu Island now belongs to Sri Lanka and ''we frequently advise our fishermen that they should not enter the Sri Lankan waters,'' External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said today.
*Bhutan and India have a Treaty of wherein Bhutan agrees to let India "guide" its foreign policy and that both nations would consult each other closely on foreign and defense affairs. Therefore it can be clearly seen that India harbors an interventional, hegemonic foreign policy as opposed to an internal, progressive, secular policy it boasts of.
If Bhutan has chosen for willingly for such a treaty how this
interventional, hegemonic foreign policy ?
With such a political mindset, when a most poorest
Last i checked India was among medium development level in HDI and improved on poverty
'Sharp drop' in India poverty due to welfare programmes
and over-populace country is not concerned with the welfare of its people but feeds at the extremist Hinduvta policy of a greater India,
More lies. How did HDI of India improve if India is not concerned about welfare?
This we see when we find an India having grave matters of mal-nutrition, under-growth and acute poverty in its wider population, yet it jumps across another country to become an acclaimed largest humanitarian aid provider to Afghanistan.
The above could be questioned if India is not paying attention to
mal-nutrition, under-growth and acute poverty
Last i recall India had several Govt programs to counter those above
One example:
What is the need for that? What is the need for playing regional, when dozens of separatist’s movements are lurching upon its fate inside it.
The Author herself mentioned:
most of the time separatist groups of India take hiding in the closest neighbor, bringing terror on both sides.
So why wouldn't India attempt to eliminate external support?
It is evident that the lofty Hinduvta mentality likes to play on a grander chess-board, a trans-borders one, but the irony is that in this big-game, human rights, human society and even the very human existence is forsaken, populations are given into the hands of terror and genocide is permitted.
Rants
But the dilemma of this type of approach is that many a time when the game is inverted the rooks and the bishops all become falling pawns and the king is left alone, tumbling in its square. And tumbling is what India has shown, right from the onset of the 2014 withdrawal plan announcement. The very confident India, of its grand strategy of engulfing Afghanistan by its connivance under the US umbrella of ‘no-morals-only-interests’, that one day when the US will return the Afghans would proclaim them as their saviors. But no! India wasn’t thinking that the US was going to leave them alone on the throne, with no NATO and only the Afghans around, they would be torn to the bones before it was noon, and no one would even get the news from this remote highland of the world.
Its not rocket science to understand that only US and NATO are only entities that have the resources and political will to stabilize Afghanistan. Of course that is no concern to Pakistan as long Indians are out of Afghanistan even with 35k deaths.
So the Indians began shaking; not finding any option that would spare them the disgrace of absconding Afghanistan, where they previously declared to be aiding humanity and building infra-structure, an aid that never reached a people and infrastructure that is still on papers after 10 years.
Jealousy over Indian contributions in Afghanistan.
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Indian Assistance Vital, Substantial and Targeted
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¶6. (U) Rasool, Spanta and Charge Mishra all noted that
India's foreign assistance programs were very
successful--$1.5 billion dollars invested directly in
Afghanistan in the form of roads, schools and hospitals in
the past five years, successful education programs, including
500 higher education scholarships and the 500 vocational
training scholarships a year which is increasing to 675 each
as of 2009. India recently signed a deal to build an
agriculture university in Kabul, and will also provide solar
panels to power satellite television in remote communities,
in order to link well-trained teachers to the most remote
parts of Afghanistan--a tool also used in India. Charge
Mishra said that five medical missions in Afghanistan saw
30,000 patients a month. Meanwhile, Rasool said, private
Afghans with means increasingly send their children to Indian
schools and travel to India for medical care.
¶7. (C) From all accounts, and according to Embassy
information, there is no significant Indian assistance to
Afghan security forces or police. A senior MOI official did
travel to New Delhi last month but there is no reported
outcome of that visit. Charge Mishra said they did fund some
one-by-one military training to Afghans, all conducted in
India, but understood the sensitivity of being too visible in
this area--a sentiment the Afghan officials echoed.
Afghanistan's India Interests
So, when you observe increase of bombing and massacre of innocent Pakistani civilians, claimed by LeJ and TTP or any other ghostly entity, trained, financed and harbored by the cross border RAW facilities, dressed as Indian consulates; do consider that ‘somebody’ is believing that some ‘end’ may be speedily achieved through this chaos, no matter if human life is lost or people put to injury and terror.
AHA!
Nothing like a bit Zaid Hamid literature to reach general Pakistani audience.
In the recent attacks in the Pakistani Punjab, TTP
appears to have, as they did in 2008, hired the services of
Punjab-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ). LJ,
which began as a violent off-shot of Deobandi sectarian
extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) in the 1990s,
has steadily increased its target set from strictly Shias, a
minority in Pakistan, to any group which does not share its
strict, militant interpretation of Islam, including the
Pakistan government and western interests. Since 2001, LJ
has become essentially a "guns for hire" terrorist
organization, prepared to carry out attacks on any
non-Deobandi group in exchange for sizable cash payments.
The latest attacks are also tied directly to Ilyas Kashmiri,
who is affiliated with the anti-India terrorist group
Harakat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HUJI). HUJI, along with other
anti-India groups including Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) and
Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), have increasingly shifted their focus
to include Pakistan government and western targets in
Pakistan and India. They are also actively collaborating
with Taliban groups, including TTP, sectarian extremist
groups such as LJ, and al-Qaeda.
Terrorists Increase Activity In Advance Of Waziristan Operation
And when you see a Pakistan furthering its inclinations towards granting the MFN status to India, allowing a long list of Indian produce to enter Pakistan and an India announcing to build dozens of dams upon its water source; and a Pakistan cherishing all Indian film and TV crap as the very gods of culture and lending a third of its air-time to it and an India plotting and executing large scale death in all it province, with special emphasis to destabilizing Baluchistan with a daily dose of chaos; then please consider that schizophrenia can be a national ailment too.
For which no proof has been provided to even India to this day.
So as India shivers in its own unfulfilled greed for hegemony, and as its prospects dwindle in its projected economy, its own national stability and its possible grab of more land and water; not only are its dreams of out-growth shattered, but neighbors like China have good plans to contain India inside its real worth too, as China turns India’s attention to the waters above its head and below its feet.
Here we go again, hiding under China's skirts
By the way,
China turns India’s attention to the waters above its head has serious effects on Pakistan too as those river run through India first.
.... Bully? you are calling Indian bully? we are soft power... you guys have influence in NK, Taiwan, vietnam,combodia, etc... you guys dictate their foreign policies.... not us..
