Trade is what i meant too when i said US is our largest trading partner. Pakistan and India although linked together by geographic location have the lowest trade. India can obtain gas cheaply through Pakistan but its strategic interests say otherwise and hence India is willing to go all the way to Qatar and built an underwater pipeline spending billions in extra. Point being geographic location does not supersede ones strategic interests. If its in Pakistan interest to keep Bhutan and Nepal in its area of influence we will do that irrespective of geographic locations, a case in point Srilanka. As for BD its only in Indias camp till Haseena is there but if you pay close attention to what a common bengali have to say, they dont give two hoots about India and this will reflect in their future policy as well. Pakistan has moved past 71 and so has a common Man in BD. Its only people like Haseena who play this card at the behest of India.
The point being made is that Bangladesh, Bhutan & Nepal have joined India to form a separate grouping because they don't want Pakistan to block it by way of SAARC. As for why BD is with India etc, you have it wrong. Whoever the leaders are, there is no interest in wanting hostility with India. Period.
Your point about India getting gas through Pakistan etc is not backed by reality. Pakistan refused to join the other SAARC countries in their interest of greater connectivity, it wasn't India blocking Pakistan. How then would anyone look at getting gas from a country that wants to stop a few trucks?
If SAARC does not work, its not like Pakistan will somehow suffocate because of that. Yes SAARC will not work but not because Pakistan is obsessed with India but because India cant get over 47 and now more so because you have an ultra nationalist running the show in India who came to power because he promised to take a more tougher stance against Pakistan. In Pakistan no one comes to Power because he/she wishes to teach India a lesson. Thats the difference between us and you. So who is really obsessed with whom?
It has very little to do with Modi, Pakistan has been playing the spoiler long before Modi came on the scene. I'm not discounting Pakistan's interests but the other countries have decided to do their own thing with India. Give us a tinkle when the countries mentioned join in a grouping with you but excluding us.
As i said to another Indian once, Pakistan has shared where it matters and online forum are not one of those places. You have not heard or maybe you dont want to hear, it does not matter. Why do you think Kerry and your government had a heated exchange before Obama's visit?
Kerry snubbed Modi over Mulla Fazalulla patronage
That's the kind of cock & bull story that I was talking about. Mentioned only by Pakistanis on Pakistani channels and some
" Christina Palmer".... Some sort of a secret that only they know. Like the child with the painting of the cow & the meadow...... No one else has ever heard of it, the notion that Kerry will be snubbing Modi days before the arrival of Obama is beyond ridiculous & it smacks of a desperate mind to even believe such stuff.
This is precisely the attitude why SAARC will fail. India's arrogance and unwillingness of a common Indian to call spade a spade.
SAARC may fail but SAARC minus 1 will not, even if it will get called something else. Indians are calling a spade a bloody shovel now, I certainly have no idea what you mean. What is it that you want in SAARC or in bilateral ties that you think India can accommodate but is not doing so?
As i said before if its in Pakistan's interest, we will keep it irrespective of whether SAARC exists or not. A case in point earth quake in Nepal. While Indians continued with their cheap strategy to somehow humiliate Pakistan by brining out that meat thing through their media, in the end it only embarrassed it self.
No one is saying you won't have any relations with these countries, no one is suggesting any sort of a relation rupture. The point is not that they will become your enemies or turn against you because they have interests with you, only that you will not be allowed to block what each of these countries consider to be important.
