It is clear that America is
preparing India to reduce China’s influence in the region. The strategic
importance of India in the American view that can better protect the U.S.
interests in the area and China‘s rapid rise as a regional political and
economic power with global aspirations is an important element in today’s
strategic environment that has significant implications for the region and the
world. China has the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United
States and field disruptive military technologies. U.S. policy in South Asia
focused on reinvention of the region as a nuclear free and democratic area.
Pakistan ‘s nuclear capability and China’s nuclear and military dominance were
the main concerns which somewhat provided common ground to the India-United
States strategic partnership.Modi’s recent visit to the US and their agreement
on the construction of six nuclear reactors in India by an American company,
Nuclear Power Corporation of India and Westinghouse Electric Co., a U.S. unit of
Toshiba Corp., will also begin engineering and site-design work for the
reactors. Modi’s visit is part of Obama’s endeavor to pivot the US foreign
policy towards Asia.
The United States states that Pakistan will have to take action against all the
Taliban groups which are operating on its soil and territory without
discrimination but the most critical factor behind the reduction in terrorist
violence is the North Waziristan operation. The TTP and other terrorist groups
were cleared from their last remaining stronghold in the tribal areas. There
have been operations in Karachi and northern Balochistan on a very large scale
where there have been preexisting security challenges.3,400 terrorists killed
837 hideouts from where they were carrying out their terrorist activities
destroyed. Operation Zarb-e-Azb got acknowledgement and praise from the various
leaders and forums throughout the world. They appreciated the successes of
Operation Zarb-e-Azb and Pakistan’s efforts for regional stabilityand it went
for the operation without any discrimination, Karachi back to a relative peace
that it had not seen in decades. This same operation has expanded into
Baluchistan, crushing the insurgencies that were foreign sponsored and resolving
disputes with the local fighters.The Baluchistan insurgency has faced
significant defeats and surrenders of many of their most senior commanders and
fighters, as the Army and paramilitary forces deepened their resolve to end this
conflict. The arrest of Kulbhushan Jadhev, a serving Indian Navy officer,
working for RAW inside Balochistan, has led to the collapse of a massive network
of over 50 Indian operatives and 700 Pakistani elementsand these would be
considered operational successes, and reasons to continue the support to
Pakistan’s military. For the US, Pakistani lives may be meaningless and
worthless, but to every Pakistani mother and father, those lives are their
futures, and as a nation, it is our national duty to protect them.
From the appointment of the Karzai government to the regular reports of massive
corruption within the country, Afghanistan continues to be an experiment in US
foreign policy. At no point could it been said that Afghanistan was on the path
to stability can’t blame that on Pakistan, anti-Pakistan position was reinforced
with the influx of Indian investments into all sectors of the Afghanistan
economy .Afghanistan itself has shown no serious interest in being a partner for
peace with Pakistan. Media outlets in the United States, have given a phrase
against Pakistan – “duplicitous partner Yes Pakistan takes care of its interests
before considering the interests of any foreign nation and that ofcourse any
nation would do. Pakistan has shown amazing restraint in not carpet bombing the
terrorist safe havens in Khost and Nuristan right now Pakistan is dealing with
its own internal problems; it has its own internal security issues.
Pakistan and China continued their efforts in bringing Taliban to the
negotiating table even there was a flare up by Afghanistan. Pakistan hosted a
meeting in Murree in 2015 with the representatives from China and Afghanistan to
bring about Taliban for negotiations then the second time it was to be held in
Pakistan when Mullah Omar died and there was crisis among their own ranks. For
each and every little what is going on in their own circle Pakistan should not
be blamed and it’s not only Pakistan’s responsibility to bring them on the
negotiating table ,peace in Afghanistan is in the best interest of Pakistan
anyway then why is it always blamed for not doing enough . Pakistan has already
sacrificed with so many families losing their loved ones in war against
terrorism; the efforts should not be taken for granted. With whatever goes
around in Afghanistan Pakistan is the one to be targeted without realizing the
fact that it has put in so much for peace and stability in Afghanistan which is
never given any importance. Islamabad can put pressure on the Taliban leadership
to sit-in for peace talks but it can’t negotiate on behalf of the Afghan
government. The image that has been given to the entire world that Pakistan has
control over Taliban is just a mere propaganda. There are unrealistic
expectations from Pakistan and then when the expectations are not guaranteed
there is always a blame game going on the other side. The US has been accusing
Pakistan for not acting against militants and making a tilt towards India. On
the other hand the US has an agreement with India on civil nuclear cooperation,
but refuses to offer Pakistan a similar deal. Even after the cold war era, US
and India started working on their relationship and widened the scope of
cooperation and exchanges. It considered India as a more important partner in
political, strategic and commercial sense.
What we need to do is keep our national interest on our priority list, we need
to be careful about the decisions and our relations states,and we need to revise
our foreign policy. Pakistan’s ties with the Muslim world especially the Middle
Eastern countries are an important part of its identity and ideology- based
foreign policy. A reason behind China’s investment in strategically placed
Pakistan has much to do with its revised approach to foreign policy.