Yes, it makes. It shows how influential India is as compared to Pakistan. Not that I am proud of that lady.
The way US violates Pak sovereignty with such impunity and ease( be it Drones or OBL episode), it amazes me how Pakistanis are bearing such shame for not one or two days but for 10 years.
Your country is projected by international community across the world as epicentre of Islamic terrorism, and a country that cannot live without aid. Now tell me what is so proud in that?
Let me a little blunt: If not for Pakistan nukes, Pakistan would have been none in this world.
The whole point of the discussion in this thread is: Why is US supporting India but not Pakistan?
Lets not divert from the actual topic here...the author is a Pakistani if I am not wrong so he views the geo politics of India and Pakistan from
a Pakistani prism. This he does because Pakistans policies are centred around India. Their Aghan policy is also a derivative of India's policy towards Afghanistan. It's Afghan policy is to deny India space in Afghanistan to avoid getting caught in a pincer hold from east and west. It also does not want an anti pakistani and a pro india govt in afghanistan.
The author views US strategic moves in the region with an india centric prism. So when the US talks about India's role in the region, pakistan naturally views it with an indo pak prism.
The difference here lies in the fact that india has other things on its plate like look east policy, trade with central asia, afghanistan, iran, africa, north pole, burma, maldives, indian ocean, south china sea, investments in south america etc etc.
Vis a vis pakistan, the author is right in saying that india wants trade to improve and tensions to decrease - but his assumption that this is being pushed by america to use india as a peg against china is wrong. The US might have those ideas, but India doesnt....we have other important things on our plate to take care of...so decreased tensions with pakistan will help us in doing that.
China very well knows that India will never work as a peg against it. We have our own interests and we are only concerned about that.