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Kerry's friendly overtures towards Pakistan worry India
By: Special Correspondent | January 30, 2013

NEW YORK - India views John Kerry, the new US secretary of state, as friendly to Pakistan and his recent pronouncements favouring strengthened ties with Islamabad has New Delhi worried, according to an Indian academic."The Massachusetts senator is widely viewed in Indian circles as sympathetic to Pakistan's viewpoint," Harsh Pant, professor of defence studies at King's College, London, wrote in the conservative Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

Pant especially cites Kerry's statements at his confirmation hearing last week that Pakistani government has not been given sufficient credit for its counterterrorism role as also his strong advocacy against adopting a "dramatic, draconian, sledgehammer approach," to relations with Pakistan because the South Asian country is too integral to America's supply routes into Afghanistan.

"New Delhi isn't pleased to hear all this ...," Pant writes in the piece, entitled: Islamabad's Man in Washington?In this context, the Indian academic notes that Kerry helped broker the release of the CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, and later persuaded Pakistani officials to return parts of a US stealth helicopter that crashed during the May 2011 raid on Abbottabad.

"In short, Mr Kerry seems always willing to talk to Islamabad, which is why India's hyperactive media has already labelled him as a friend of Pakistan," Pant says.The author also refers to the Kerry-Lugar-Berman act in 2009 that authorised a $7.5 billion financial aid package to Pakistan, and said, "So Indians infer that Mr Kerry is unfriendly toward Delhi.

" In this regard, he cites a statement made by Pakistan's Ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman praising Kerry as ‘a steadfast friend of Pakistan’ as a confirmation to that suggestion."The larger subtext to Delhi's apprehensions about Mr Kerry is Washington's strategy in the Af-Pak region," the author adds.

Pant writes: "The US is preparing for its military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014. Earlier this month, when President Obama hosted Hamid Karzai at the White House, he went as far as to say that there would hardly be a residual force in Afghanistan after 2014.

It was John Kerry who long ago dubbed the Afghan war 'unsustainable’, and it doesn't bode well that Washington is coming around to this dovish consensus."New Delhi has been warily anticipating this turn in American policy, worried that Washington will again cozy up to Islamabad.

Indians see Washington's refusal last week to extradite David Coleman Headley — one of the planners of the 2008 Mumbai attacks — to India, as well as its grant of immunity to two former generals of Pakistan's intelligence services for their alleged involvement in those attacks, as part of this bigger change.

"India's other worry is the return of the Taliban. Pakistan is leveraging its role in the ongoing transition in Afghanistan by releasing some Taliban leaders and expressing its support for a negotiated settlement there.

Islamabad wants to let the Taliban and the Haqqani network loose in post-2014 Afghanistan, so it can exercise control over Kabul. All this leaves India out of the Afghan picture, even though Mr Karzai has wished for an Indian presence to counterbalance Pakistan.

"The more dominant Pakistan feels in the neighbourhood, the more it may be willing to risk confrontation with India,” the writer claims.“Witness the recent ceasefire violations on the de facto border between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.

In a future confrontation, Delhi may want to retaliate — and it’s concerned Mr Kerry will pressure it to back off."All this would reverse the years of relative stability in South Asia that followed the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Hillary Clinton has at least always been emphatic in asking Pakistan to do more to root out homegrown terrorism, and this rhetoric along with a military presence helped Indian interests.

Now her successor wants to underline how much Pakistan has already done, instead of what it should do next."That said, New Delhi has not helped its cause either.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government last year turned down Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's overtures for India to be part of the Asia pivot. Because of such political dithering, Mr Singh has allowed a constituency to grow in Washington that doubts India's ability to emerge as America's strategic partner in Asia.

"President Obama told the Indian prime minister at the East Asia summit in Phnom Penh soon after his re-election in November 2012 that he has ‘big plans’ for India in his second term. But Mr Kerry's pending appointment and the paralysis in Delhi are not great indicators for the future of US-India ties.”
Kerry's friendly overtures towards Pakistan worry India | The Nation
 
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Sooner or later, USA and India would divert from each other as they do not have much in common. I can point out three major reasons for USA and India to have a very limited engagement/partnership in the future:

1. USA's Pak policy
2. India's non-alignment
3. India's disinterest in USA's China containment policy
 
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US Senate panel approves Kerry as secretary of state
By: Special Correspondent | January 30, 2013
WASHINGTON -- The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved President Barack Obama’s nomination of Senator John F. Kerry to be Secretary of State and sent his name to the full Senate for final confirmation.

Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman promptly welcomed the panel's action, stating, "we all look forward to working with Kerry and his team at a time of challenging transitions for the region.”

"The Pak-US relationship has also recently taken an important turn for a more stable trajectory, and we hope to build on more positives together. We are now engaged in a full spectrum of bilateral dialogue groups at the strategic and working levels across many Ministeries," she added.

Kerry, the longtime Senator from Massachusetts and 2004 Democratic Presidential nominee, has served on the committee for decades and has served as the panel’s Chairman for the past four years.

President Barack Obama last month nominated Kerry to succeed outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the country’s top diplomat.

The Senate was expected to act later Tuesday, representing the final hurdle for Kerry in his long quest to secure the post of America’s top diplomat.

He is expected to be sworn in as Hillary Clinton’s replacement later this week.The Committee’s unanimous voice vote was registered in a brief hearing in an ornate hearing room in the Capitol, where the Committee typically holds its business meetings.

Kerry, who is Chairman of the Committee and was absent for the vote, strode in moments later and went around the room thanking individual colleagues for their support.

“You’re going to be an incredible Secretary of State,’’ said acting Committee Chairman Robert Menendez, a Democrat, who cited Kerry’s “lightning speed” approval by the Committee.“Thank you all, very very much,” Kerry said. “I’m honoured beyond words.”

During his term as head of the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry also co-authored a legislative measure to provide $ 7.5 billion assistance to Pakistan over five years.
US Senate panel approves Kerry as secretary of state | The Nation
 
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Harsh Pant, professor of defence studies at King's College, London,
@Devil Soul
How is a professor in London representative of the Indian administration or knowledgeable of its reservations towards the US foreign policy ?.

Its just another man making guesses.
 
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India needs to worry about saffron terror parties leave others alone, Indian day starts with Pakistan and ends with Pakistan huh.
 
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@Devil Soul
How is a professor in London representative of the Indian administration or knowledgeable of its reservations towards the US foreign policy ?.

Its just another man making guesses.
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Harsh V. Pant

Lecturer, Department of Defence Studies, King's College, London, UK.
Appearance Date: Jan 2010 - Feb 2010
Harsh V. Pant teaches at King's College London in the Department of Defence Studies and is an Associate with the King's Centre of Science and Security Studies. Recently, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. His research is focused on Asia-Pacific security issues. His recent books include Contemporary Debates in Indian Foreign and Security Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Indian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World (Routledge, 2009).

We are pleased that Dr. Pant will be in residence at Penn as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India from January through February 2010.
Harsh V. Pant | Center for the Advanced Study of India
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Harsh V. Pant

Lecturer, Department of Defence Studies, King's College, London, UK.
Appearance Date: Jan 2010 - Feb 2010
Harsh V. Pant teaches at King's College London in the Department of Defence Studies and is an Associate with the King's Centre of Science and Security Studies. Recently, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. His research is focused on Asia-Pacific security issues. His recent books include Contemporary Debates in Indian Foreign and Security Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Indian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World (Routledge, 2009).

We are pleased that Dr. Pant will be in residence at Penn as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India from January through February 2010.
Harsh V. Pant | Center for the Advanced Study of India
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Yes, he is a professor at a university. How is IIM a part of the Indian government administration ? Its a management institute.
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There are many IIM's in India.

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta IIM-C 1961 Kolkata West Bengal iimcal.ac.in
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad IIM-A 1961 Ahmedabad Gujarat iimahd.ernet.in
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore IIM-B 1973 Bengaluru Karnataka iimb.ernet.in
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow IIM-L 1984 Lucknow Uttar Pradesh iiml.ac.in
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode IIM-K 1996 Kozhikode Kerala iimk.ac.in
Indian Institute of Management Indore IIM-I 1996 Indore Madhya Pradesh iimidr.ac.in
Indian Institute of Management Shillong IIM-S 2007 Shillong Meghalaya iimshillong.in
Indian Institute of Management Rohtak IIM-Rohtak 2010 Rohtak Haryana iimrohtak.ac.in
Indian Institute of Management Ranchi IIM-R 2010 Ranchi Jharkhand iimranchi.ac.in
Indian Institute of Management Raipur IIM-Raipur 2010 Raipur Chhattisgarh iimraipur.ac.in
Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli IIM-T 2011 Tiruchirappalli Tamil Nadu iimtrichy.ac.in
Indian Institute of Management Udaipur IIM-U 2011 Udaipur Rajasthan iimu.ac.in
Indian Institute of Management Kashipur IIM-Kashipur 2011 Kashipur Uttarakhand iimkashipur.ac.in
 
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Yes, he is a professor at a university. How is IIM a part of the Indian government administration ? Its a management institute.
:hitwall:

There are many IIM's in India.

All of the IIMs are administered by independent Trusts. Nowadays they seem to spend a lot of time contesting Govt Policies :lol:

Oh $hit man, Harsh Pant is now a "Visiting Professor" at IIM-B. The students there will spend a lot of time arguing with him. They are the most intelligent and argumentative of all the IIMs.
And Pant will earn his moolah without being employed by IIM. Just per lecture-hour.
 
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Yes, he is a professor at a university. How is IIM a part of the Indian government administration ? Its a management institute.
:hitwall:

There are many IIM's in India.
Stop banging ur head ur doing damage to urself only...lol
He wrote the report based on observations/Studies.... Professors can conduct studies cant they... he did the same.. :)
 
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Kerry is one of those balanced minded diplomats who do not take sides but off course Indian illusion can make anything possible!
 
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