Washington wants to concentrate and does not want any distractions from it focus on Afghanistan. Everything else is a distraction. Delhis bickering is more than a distraction, it is a nuisance. Washington wants it stopped.Why the US gave up India as a Strategic partner? The answer to this complex question can be summed up in a Clintonian cliche its the economy stupid. The Obama Administration has taken a page out of the Nixon playbookbuild a relationship with China at the expense of India.
The Bush administration had tried to build up India as a counterweight to China with a strategic partnership with India as a natural ally. This report in the New York Times is a poignant reminder of where the world of US-China relationship is headed. One never thought that we would see a US Secretary of State in Beijing literally begging the Chinese for loans (actually buying Treasury bonds). Its a new worldlet the begging and groveling begin.
24 March, 2009
WASHINGTON (AFP)
The United States called Monday on India to support rival Pakistan in rooting out extremism as Washington drafts a new war on terror strategy in South Asia.
Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg also said
the United States backed a global role for India and hailed New Delhis reconstruction assistance in Afghanistan, the source of unease in mutual neighbor Pakistan.
Steinberg delivered the first substantive remarks on India by President Barack Obamas administration which is expected this week to unveil a new strategy on fighting Islamic extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
I think it will be important for India to make clear that as Pakistan takes steps to deal with extremists on its own territory that India will be supportive of that, Steinberg said at the Brookings Institution.
He said India should look for ways to contribute to an overall environment which can then lead to further efforts to root out extremists.
There is obviously a complex history between the two countries but
we will encourage India to see that it has a big stake in the efforts that we will be advocating to work both with Afghanistan and Pakistan, he said.
He did not go into specifics, but the US Defense Department has said that the Pakistan, suspicious of New Delhi, was sending troops to the Indian border that would be better used fighting extremists in areas bordering Afghanistan.
Tensions between India and Pakistan shot up after Islamic militants went on a bloody three-day rampage in Mumbai in November, killing 165 people. Pakistan has conceded the attacks were partly planned by extremists on its soil.
India and Pakistan, which both are nuclear armed, have fought three full-fledged wars since their separation at birth on independence from Britain in 1947. AFP. US asks India to support Pakistan on extremists.
The relationship between the worlds largest democracies has been sacrificed once again for the sake of the almighty Dollar and the other small irritant in West Asiaaka defeat in Afghanistan. India finds itself on the wrong side of history once again. For the first half century of its existence Bharat supported the Evil Empire.
Then in the 80s when the USSR imploded and Yogoslavia imploded, the Indian policy makers worked overtime to come up with a strategy of survival on this third planet from the sun. Egged on by a Democratic Congress, Mr. Clinton encouraged India to explode a nuclear device.
The Pokran explosions had a affect on India like the world has never seen. It allowed the youthful nation to being thinking bigbeyond the confines of reality and beyond the realm of imagination. Within a decade of meager growth, Indian had not only proclaimed themselves a Superpower, but also convinced themselves of the death of Pakistan, the subservience of Bangladesh, the destruction of Lanka and the erosion of Nepal as a political entity.
In this dream world, Bollywood stopped filming movies in India and brought world capitals, skyscrapers and modern amenities into the theatres and homes of ordinary Indians.
Pretty soon a fog enveloped the nationthey actually started believing the Bollywood baloney and got swollen heads. Like the Michelins man full of air, the Superpower began to think of its borders beyond Uzbekistan and its Navy beyond the Pacific and Atlantic.
First I would like to point out, nothing here surprises me. Indian presence in Afghanistan is something we ought to cater great attention to...
When the US tells India "to lay low" in Afghanistan we Pakistanis and Muslims must ask ourselves
what are the implications on our Geo-Political and strategic aims and on our national security both short and long term.
Indian military and agency presence in Afghanistan is intolerable, provocative, and offensive in nature, as the aims of the Indian RAW is to destabilize, weaken, supplement separatist movements and militants in Pakistan. The Indian RAW has a record of doing such things, in mingling into Pakistan's internal affairs, I.E. 1971 E.Pakistan when Indian supported the "Mukti Bahini" insurgents.
We must ask ourselves what does India seek in Afghanistan, why is India now reaching out to Afghanistan.
Understand for several years, India has been forbidden to establish cordial or strategic ties in Afghanistan due to the P
akistani and Islamic minded Taliban, which shares similar anti-Indian and anti-Hindu sentiment as the Pakistani people and Military do.
Now there is a new political development, US manufactured and staged 'democracy' has been seeded in Afghanistan, and the US-backed and former UNOCAL mouth piece/spokesperson and
anti-Pakistani agent Pres. Hamid Karzai is President of Afghanistan, this has led to warm relations between Afghanistan and India, as far as Kabul and Delhi are concerned.
I have long argued, that the US selected and installment of Karzai was deliberate on the basis he comes from a prominent Afghan family, (related to the Former Afghan King Zahir Shah) but most importantly on the f
act that Hamid Karzai serves the United State's anti-Pakistan agenda, and to contain Pakistan's prowess in the region, by
containing Pakistan they indirectly contain China (Pakistan's #1 Military ally). It has been a long goal of the US to contain China since the Communist revolution.
Also through this Geo-Political stage craft, India also eats from the fruits of such plans by the US.
As long as the US can maintain an obedient India a pro-US and pro-Western India, that will favor Western policies in the region, the US will in the short term back India perhaps long term as well;
one to contain Pakistan's prowess, and two to contain China, when China is contained it provides the US a stronger hand over Taiwan....
Now back to the security implication for Pakistan of Indian presence in Afghanistan.
Indian RAW is currently familiarizing itself with the terrain, with the people, the mountains, the villages, and the roads; RAW is gathering intel now while they have the chance because for so long Afghanistan was a black hole for intelligence agencies except for ISI.
It appears from credible sources that
Indian RAW is now training militants, so that th
e Pakistani army is forced to remove brigades and possibly divisions from the Western border to our Eastern one. Hence
giving India a strategic advantage on our E.Border....In a quick war this would provide India a easier quick start fighting PA on our Eastern Border....
We really ought to wake up!
I consider what India is doing in Afghanistan and NWFP an act of War.
Our response should be to take tougher counter measures. I will briefly state some ideas below.
1) Capture or kill RAW agents in Afghanistan and or NWFP, using local help.
2) Use PA UAV's to strike at Indian RAW agents or network or infrastructure in Afghanistan, remember we are fighting the WoT so we should be doing that anyway....
3) More border security
4) Spread Anti-Hinduism sentiment among the local Afghans
5) We should also tell the local Afghans why it is not in their interest to be friends with India. Hindustan is a manipulator a trouble maker that does not respect Muslim power.
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