How is saying we don't care for their flawed and single minded perspective being brash?
With all due respect what else you can do??? Can you imagine such comments being passed on any other country especially the one who is an ally????
We are being supported even by England while he was spewing diplomatic garbage for local consumption.
Local comsumption??? PM of "Great Britain" on an offical visit to a foreign land passing such comments and that too repeatedly during various press conferences is for local consumption???? May i ask why is there so much hue and cry in Pakistan when these comments are merely for "Local Consumption"???
It is business as usual till someones needs are met. We are friends only because of a common goal and that has been proved multiple times.
Friends don't say such things out in open and that too when one of them is sitting in an adversary land....As far as common goal is concerned then has anything changed??? This is true for all relationships...This was true in the past, today and will remain true in the future as well.....There has to be some convergence of goals for any relationship....B/W cameroon repeatedly said we will do whatever we can to help them(Pak) fight terrorism...He is only assertive regarding accountability as far as terrorism effecting them whose source is from Pakistan....Pretty strong words and clearly a shift from policy in the past....As far as business as usual is concerened then you never know what all has changed/will change or perhaps won't change at all in the background....However can you or I deny that we all were surprised at such a harsh critism coming from an ally and that too when in India?????
All the supposed friendship's in the world are for a common goal now.
It was always true and will remain true forever....Nothing has changed in this philosofy....
You can list the reasons why America and Russia would want to share India's friendship, for the time being.
If i am getting it right then perhaps you are pointing to our lucrative markets...right??? It this is true then you are taking a very simplistic view of the whole scenario.....There are many other lucrative markets in the world but all have not managed to get both palestine and israel in the friend list.....Managing Iran and US even after having so called lucrative market is not an easy task.....Getting Russia on board with US due to lucrative markets is not an easy task....Notching trade of worth $60 Billion with a potential rival(read china) is not an easy task...Anyways let me share with you some very important steps that GOI took which is reaping benefits now....
- NAM : Thanks to Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru vision we followed NAM.....We never joined camps and thus are able to manage good relations with Both Russia and US at the same time.....Can you suggest how many countries in the world manage to get such relations after joinining any of these sides??? This NAM helped us achieve this...otherwise lucrative or no lucrative markets making good relations with arch rivals at the same time is a very difficult task....
- Recognition of Israel - In order to appease Arab World India did not recognize Israel for a long time....but in 1991 common sense prevailed and we realized that being friend to both we can help better then being on one side....Even though it looks diffcult yet relationships can be maintained on bilateral term....
- Opening up the markets - All the equaltions change dramatically if you are economically strong....We brought in the reforms and are worlds second fastest growing economy....This with some great initiatives in the past have managed to win us lot of friends....
- Engagement with China : SOme very positive engagement with China has helped us keep our eastern border very quite....We both have trade relations worth $60 Billion and are at a poinjt where conflict is going to hurt both....In short the only way forward is more engagement and resolutions of issues peacefully....
- Democracy : Last but not the least we have managed to remain democratic throughout our life and the way things are going i can very easily say "will remain so"....The democratic set-up(even though a bit flawed but then democracy needs time to mature) helped us win lot of friends.....
Now don't you think there are some great diplomatic initiatives by GOI and we are reaping benefits of those now???? In short even if you become a very lucrative market today there is lot of work that Pakistan would have to do to achieve what India has managed by her diplomacy......because relationships are a little(read a lot) more then import and exports of finished goods!!!!