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How Modi’s foreign policy is beating Pakistan
Published August 23, 2015 | By admin
SOURCE : INDIA TODAY
When it comes to diplomatic engagement, Pakistan is no match to Modi’s India.
According to an article published in The Dawn, the Islamic nation, which has sought parity with India and described resolution of the Kashmir dispute as the essential prerequisite for normal ties with its much larger neighbour, is suffering from diplomatic paralysis against its bete noire India.
The report pins the blame on the country’s old-school diplomats, politicians and military thinkers of ignoring the changes in the global environment and their attitude towards arch-rival India and the world’s major powers. It says, Pakistan’s diplomatic policy is shaped by ideology instead of being based on pragmatism.
While the Islamic nation boasts of its nuclear arsenal and their delivery systems vis-a-vis India, it hardly tells its citizens about the widening gap between the two countries in most fields including education, scientific research and innovation.
Pakistan is aware that jihadi militancy since 1989 has failed to wrest Kashmir for Pakistan from India as has war and military confrontation. Still, the defiant nation supports Kashmir separatists and terrorist outfits to bleed India. Pakistan has already fought four wars with India and lost half its territory in the process, the erstwhile East Pakistan (Bangladesh ), in 1971 but the Kashmir dispute still rages on.
Meanwhile, the Dawood Ibrahim issue has become the bone of contention between India and Pakistan.
As it presently stands, India is assembling a dossier on Dawood Ibrahim ahead of NSA-level talks between India and Pakistan on 23-24 August. Intelligence shared by the UAE in this regard could be critical in building a solid case, and could very well be the “heavy price”
It seems, the Kashmir Independence issue has become a day dream for Pakistan and the Free Kashmir slogan has lost its significance in the Cold War-era.
India has proceeded to broaden its horizons to encompass traditional Pakistani friends like China, Iran and the UAE while the poor nation continues on its lonely path to nowhere.
In the global market, India is viewed as too profitable a market to antagonise. As a major importer, as well as a popular holiday destination, it dwarfs Pakistan in the eyes of the whole world. The country has established over 20 strategic partnerships over the years with countries that include Russia, the US, France, Japan, Chin, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Recently, both India and Bangladesh swapped control of some 160 small pockets of land on each other’s territory to end one of the world’s most intractable border disputes that has kept thousands of people in stateless limbo for nearly 70 years.
The historic agreement proves that New Delhi is interested to bolster ties with its neighbour while the Islamabad has failed to do anything significant to grab the eyeballs of the international community – apart from promoting terror – to prove that it believes in peaceful coexistence.
The Modi-Obama bonhomie after LeT chief Osama bin Laden’s assassination by US Navy Seals is a blot on the face of Pakistan also.
To counter a US-India axis, an isolated Pakistan befriended China but the country could not tip the balance in Pakistan’s favour on its own. Its natural ally America to changed stance and joined hands with India while Pakistan sat fingers crosses.
Pakistan, which was created on the basis of religion, has failed to fight against terrorism and is at cross roads — to fight Taliban or not.
Meanwhile, India’s strategic partnership with UAE is expected to hit Pakistan where it hurts. While trade, investment and energy appear in the India-UAE joint statement, the dominant theme of the agreement by far, is security and counter-terrorism.
Time has come for Pakistan to come out of the denial mode now.
Published August 23, 2015 | By admin
SOURCE : INDIA TODAY
When it comes to diplomatic engagement, Pakistan is no match to Modi’s India.
According to an article published in The Dawn, the Islamic nation, which has sought parity with India and described resolution of the Kashmir dispute as the essential prerequisite for normal ties with its much larger neighbour, is suffering from diplomatic paralysis against its bete noire India.
The report pins the blame on the country’s old-school diplomats, politicians and military thinkers of ignoring the changes in the global environment and their attitude towards arch-rival India and the world’s major powers. It says, Pakistan’s diplomatic policy is shaped by ideology instead of being based on pragmatism.
While the Islamic nation boasts of its nuclear arsenal and their delivery systems vis-a-vis India, it hardly tells its citizens about the widening gap between the two countries in most fields including education, scientific research and innovation.
Pakistan is aware that jihadi militancy since 1989 has failed to wrest Kashmir for Pakistan from India as has war and military confrontation. Still, the defiant nation supports Kashmir separatists and terrorist outfits to bleed India. Pakistan has already fought four wars with India and lost half its territory in the process, the erstwhile East Pakistan (Bangladesh ), in 1971 but the Kashmir dispute still rages on.
Meanwhile, the Dawood Ibrahim issue has become the bone of contention between India and Pakistan.
As it presently stands, India is assembling a dossier on Dawood Ibrahim ahead of NSA-level talks between India and Pakistan on 23-24 August. Intelligence shared by the UAE in this regard could be critical in building a solid case, and could very well be the “heavy price”
It seems, the Kashmir Independence issue has become a day dream for Pakistan and the Free Kashmir slogan has lost its significance in the Cold War-era.
India has proceeded to broaden its horizons to encompass traditional Pakistani friends like China, Iran and the UAE while the poor nation continues on its lonely path to nowhere.
In the global market, India is viewed as too profitable a market to antagonise. As a major importer, as well as a popular holiday destination, it dwarfs Pakistan in the eyes of the whole world. The country has established over 20 strategic partnerships over the years with countries that include Russia, the US, France, Japan, Chin, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Recently, both India and Bangladesh swapped control of some 160 small pockets of land on each other’s territory to end one of the world’s most intractable border disputes that has kept thousands of people in stateless limbo for nearly 70 years.
The historic agreement proves that New Delhi is interested to bolster ties with its neighbour while the Islamabad has failed to do anything significant to grab the eyeballs of the international community – apart from promoting terror – to prove that it believes in peaceful coexistence.
The Modi-Obama bonhomie after LeT chief Osama bin Laden’s assassination by US Navy Seals is a blot on the face of Pakistan also.
To counter a US-India axis, an isolated Pakistan befriended China but the country could not tip the balance in Pakistan’s favour on its own. Its natural ally America to changed stance and joined hands with India while Pakistan sat fingers crosses.
Pakistan, which was created on the basis of religion, has failed to fight against terrorism and is at cross roads — to fight Taliban or not.
Meanwhile, India’s strategic partnership with UAE is expected to hit Pakistan where it hurts. While trade, investment and energy appear in the India-UAE joint statement, the dominant theme of the agreement by far, is security and counter-terrorism.
Time has come for Pakistan to come out of the denial mode now.
