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I can understand the acrimony towards NS due to his affection towards KSA..or more accurately his affection towards their policies and influence. What I fail to understand is why he's being billed as an Indian stooge/puppet along with being an US/KSA puppet. Whatever he may be, perhaps a marionette indeed, regardless we are not pulling his strings. Nor will the US/KSA pull his strings in our favor..if that were so then Musharraf was pretty much ready to sell his soul along with all of Pakistan's pride to the States and yet that did not bring any real benefit to us.
The old fiction has gained prominence again, that NS brought defeat to a victorious army- forgetting the scores of military men who've testified to the military defeat prior to NS's move under Clinton's guidance. Leaving that be, why the extreme dejection?
He cannot sell Pakistan's interests completely.
1) The Pakistani army is still extant and holds all the fire power in the nation- they are hardly going to stand by as the interests they've cultivated over 6 decades go down the drain.
2) NS's subservience towards the States will be tempered by China's influence in Pakistan, China's pretty much the only country supplying Pakistan with nuclear fuel, with technical assistance to set up reactors, investing in Gwadar, infrastructure in GB and China will not let such a prime region of influence and control just slip through its fingers.
3) Can't comment on his affection towards KSA.
4) As far as India is considered, nothing has changed. You still have your nukes. The foreign policy is still going to emanate from the GHQ and "freedom fighters" are still going to find sustenance and training in Pakistan. So what has really changed for you to write this off as a cause for cheering in India? The status quo continues unabated. In fact if @
Hyperion is correct in his assessment then NS's close connection to the Punjabi Taliban and fundamentalists means that he shall be arming the LeT, or whatever name that organisation sports now, to the teeth and sending them over- perhaps with greater regularity than in the past 5-6 years. So we see no reason to celebrate, dunno why you feel that we do?
Seriously why? Exactly what do we gain from his victory? As far as we are concerned the fellow sat over an administration that could not even control its own general even as he "championed" peace.
