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Pakistan steps up mischief to please China
Kashmir Times. Dated: 6/29/2017 12:40:24 PM
The China-Pakistan collaboration amounts to making Pakistan the Chinese proxy against India in the same way as North Korea is, by implication, the bully boy of China against the US. In this background the muted UPA overtures to Pakistan to reach a settlement were dropped when there seemed no prospect of stopping Pakistan's mischief. Pakistan's aggressive actions please China, an all-weather 'friend' who issues commands and demands obedience.
But the BJP and the NDA have taken long to reach such a conclusion and failed to realize that one cannot offer a hand of friendship to a deceptive terrorist State where the so-called civilian government works as an obedient servant of Pakistan's military and its Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI.
It is felt that Prime Minister should not have dropped by in Islamabad to wish Mr. Nawaz Sharif a happy birthday on his way back from Afghanistan or wherever else, nor should he have invited Nawaz Sharif to his own swearing-in in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan on May 26, 2014 as a show of so-called South Asian concord and friendship, nor should Dr. Manmohan Singh have made any overtures to General Musharraf in the mistaken belief of a possible settlement because he was believed to be the butcher of Indian officers and troops in Kargil and on several other occasions. He boasted about it as a feather in his cap. Musharraf invited himself to a Delhi Test match, possibly with Pakistan, to share space over a cup of tea with Dr. Manmohan Singh in the VIP Enclosure of the Ferozeshah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi several years ago. Diplomatic niceties required agreeing to such unilateral moves by the then President of Pakistan.
It was a vain exercise in bilateral diplomacy in view of external intervention under Western democracies' pressure on India on the pretence of so-called human rights of terrorists labelled as Kashmir "freedom fighters" even by President Bill Clinton on a visit to New Delhi at a joint Press conference with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at Hyderabad House in New Delhi 20 years ago.
Now that attacks by terrorists have been stepped up in Europe, especially Britain, and even in some places in the US, there is realization in the West that they had better be on guard rather than support Pakistan's interests in a balancing act after they learnt the lesson from ground realities in country after country. It is well known now that Pakistan is the fountainhead of terrorism in the world.
Nawaz Sharif may have had no illusions on any score because he knows he is a dummy ruler even though he has in the past boasted of Pakistan being a part of West Asia or Middle East. Some of Saudi Arabia's huge military potential is said to be at the disposal of the Pakistan military, which was reportedly believed to be or alleged to be guarding the Saudi Sheikhs and ruling elite as it may not be trust their own local security outfits.
Mr. Trump may be changing his perception as well as action plans against terrorism but he remains one of the closest friends of the Saudi rulers, who are also patrons of the Pakistani establishment and give a few billion dollars of free petroleum to it as patronage or blood money.
Mr. Trump has compulsions to accept Israeli demands to impose sanctions on Iran and hurt a number of other countries which wish to trade with Iran, but it greatly annoys Russia and President Putin.