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India tries to change US policy
India tries to change US policy | Times of Kabul
The US, the UK, Europe, the Muslim countries, Pakistan, and Mr. Karzai want to end the war in Afghanistan and bring peace to West Asia. Bharat wants to continue the war against the Taliban, and it yearns for the days when Mr. Karzai used to be in the Bharati pocket. The Bharati (aka Indian) establishment is in a tailspin. Like the terrible twos, the Indian diplomats are thumbing their feet and trying to muster up some sort of divergent view for American Foreign Policy. Ms. Rao, the Bharati Secretary of state paced the halls of the US COngress and drum up support from the Indophiles like Senator Ackerman and Lieberman. All ignored the Rao tizzy fit. Delhi analysts are going all out to vociferously try to put forward the impression that the US should notice its hissy fit.
Delhi has little leverage with Washington. It has failed to pressurize the Obama Administration into making the 123 Nuclear Deal operational. Hindustan also has failed to convince the world that negotiations with Taliban is a bad thing.
The Headley affair is creating serious fissures between Delhi and Washington.
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The speculation gaining respectability in Delhi is that Washington knew in advance about the Mumbai attack and deliberately chose not to pass on details to Delhi.
No doubt, the US administration is behaving very strangely. It has something extremely explosive to hide from the Indians and what better way to do that than by placing Headley in safe custody and not risk exposing him to Indian intelligence?
For the first time in recent years, the Indian public has closed ranks with prevalent opinion in Pakistan that sees the US as a diabolic, self-centered power, which double-crosses its partners, friends and allies in single-minded pursuit of its interests.
To what extent US expectations to corner a big share of Indias arms bazaar are going to be realized us unclear, no matter the clout of US arms manufacturers with the Indian military community.
All eyes in Delhi are trained on the US-Pakistan strategic dialogue in Washington on Wednesday in which Kiani is expected to pitch for a long-term strategic partnership between the two countries that duly recognizes Pakistans pivotal role in US policies.
Most certainly Delhi can be expected now to work full throttle to resist the US-Pakistani game plan to engage the Taliban and to reintegrate them in Afghan power structures.
Indias Pakistan obsession
Ambassador Bhadrakumar is a seasoned Bharati (aka Indian) diplomat who has served in various countries which Delhi considers important. He writes for the prestigious Asia Times blog which describes world affairs from various perspectives.
Ambassador Bhadrakumar is now stating the obviousthe chagrined Bharati diplomats are now openly threatening the US corporations that unless the Obama Administration changes its courseDelhi will not be awarding them arms contracts. Delhi is in the midst of evaluating a $10 billion MCRC tender bids that for the first time allows the American corporations like Lockheed Martin to compete for Bharati Dollars.
Bharat itself is under tremendous pressure from Moscow in arms sales. Prime Minsiter Putin in a recent visit to Delhi clearly told the public and the leadership of Bharat that unless Moscow gets the MCRC project, Russia will continue to drag its feet on the PAKFA fighter jet. Russia chagrined at Into-US relations doesnt transfer Flanker Su-30 development technology to India. Build plane itself. Delhi has seen a sea change in American attitudes. It is playing the typical banya by trying to pit the Russian arms industry against the US Military Industrial Complex into getting a better than better deal form both. Even though Russia ignored Bharat while designing the PAKFA (called FGFA in Bharat), Delhi was able to force Moscow to agree to a price cap on the Admiral Gorshov.
These multi-dimensional competing pressures are creating a lot of tension in Bharati diplomatic circles. They show the complex nature of International Relations.
The US policy is impeccably logical. It prioritizes the securing of Islamabads cooperation on what directly affects American interests rather than squandering away Pakistani goodwill by Washington covering for the Indians.
This political chicanery lies at the core of the unfolding Headley drama. What emerges, even if one were to give the benefit of the doubt to the CIA, is that Headley was its agent but he possibly got involved with Pakistan-based terrorist organizations and became a double agent.
No doubt, the US administration is behaving very strangely. It has something extremely explosive to hide from the Indians and what better way to do that than by placing Headley in safe custody and not risk exposing him to Indian intelligence?
The speculation gaining respectability in Delhi is that Washington knew in advance about the Mumbai attack and deliberately chose not to pass on details to Delhi.
Indeed, Washington knew of Headleys repeated missions to India from 2006 but did not share the information with the Indians. Headley, in fact, visited Mumbai once even after the city was attacked.
Clearly, the Obama administration was apprehensive that Headley might spill the beans if the Indians got hold of him and the trail could then lead to his links with the CIA, the LeT and the Pakistani military. And where would that leave the US?
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Obama is obviously in no position to pressure the Pakistani military leadership. The USs obsession is to somehow end the fighting in Afghanistan before the US presidential election campaign commences in 2012. The extent to which the US is beholden to the Pakistani military today is apparent from the about-turn lately by even a self-styled agnostic like the AfPak special representative, Richard Holbrooke, about the Pakistani military leaderships commitment to the fight against terrorism. Asia Times. Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
While the State dinners massage the Bharati ego, Delhi is very circumspect of the so called de-hyphenated US policy that treats Pakistan and India with parity. Bharat it seems would prefer the hyphenation of US policy. Delhi of course would like the hyphenation to exist between the US and India. Delhi wants an exclusive relationship with America.
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All said, however, the Americans seem to count on their skill to manipulate the Indian elite. Robert Blake, the US assistant secretary of state for South Asia who used to be the deputy head of the US Embassy, visited Delhi last week on a damage-control exercise. He huddled with the Indian corporate sector, which is hugely influential with the political class.
However, will the strategy of leveraging the pro-US lobby in Delhi work this time to ease the strain in the US-India partnership? The Mumbai terror attack left deep scars in the Indian public psyche. For the first time in recent years, the Indian public has closed ranks with prevalent opinion in Pakistan that sees the US as a diabolic, self-centered power, which double-crosses its partners, friends and allies in single-minded pursuit of its interests.
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This perception has consequences for the democratically elected government in Delhi. The big question is whether the ruling party in India can any longer afford to be seen sharing Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs robust enthusiasm for a US-centric foreign policy.
It has been a devastating blow to Manmohans personal prestige that the FBIs plea bargain deal unfolded in the week he had earmarked for the tabling of legislation in parliament that would facilitate the entry of American companies into the Indian market for nuclear commerce.
Manmohans visit to Washington to attend a nuclear summit hosted by Obama on April 12 was expected to give a fillip to US-India ties, but Headley haunts the ambience surrounding that visit.
The Headley case exposes the fallacies underlying Indias foreign policy ever since Manmohan assumed office as prime minister in 2004 that strategic partnership with the US could be central insofar as contacts with Pakistan were best conducted under the US watch and Delhis interests as an emerging power lay in harmonizing with US regional policies.
A rethink on foreign policy has now become almost inevitable. Delhi recently rolled out the red carpet to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Delhi may now seriously engage Tehran, despite Manmohans manifest indifference toward India-Iran ties. The prime minister will find it even harder now to operationalize the India-US nuclear deal of 2008, due to an inability to legislate a liability bill that the US nuclear industry seeks as a pre-requisite for doing business in India.
To what extent US expectations to corner a big share of Indias arms bazaar are going to be realized us unclear, no matter the clout of US arms manufacturers with the Indian military community. All eyes in Delhi are trained on the US-Pakistan strategic dialogue in Washington on Wednesday in which Kiani is expected to pitch for a long-term strategic partnership between the two countries that duly recognizes Pakistans pivotal role in US policies.
Most certainly Delhi can be expected now to work full throttle to resist the US-Pakistani game plan to engage the Taliban and to reintegrate them in Afghan power structures. The Headley saga underscores that the US-Pakistan axis in Afghanistan carries lethal potency for Indias national security interests. Asia Times. Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao recently visited the US. From press reports, it is evident that her only topic of discussion was Pakisan. She seemed to have visited every executive branch member she could get hold off, and then went to the US Congress to try to get some sort of Anti-Pakistan legislation passed in Congresssome sort of Pressler Amendment would hamper US efforts to bring peace to Afghansitan and facilitate the exit of US and NATO forces.
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Ms. Rao could have addressed US-Bharati issues, but it seems her visit was made to thwart the US-Pakistan strategic dialogue.
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