Twirp: Terrorist Wahabi Islamic Rep Pakistan 4

[Naresh]

<b>India dictates terms of the dialogue</b>

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Pakistan has been beseeching India for quite sometime to agree to resume dialogue. Both the president and prime minister have been literally begging New Delhi to begin talking again and resume the peace process. At Yekaterinburg, at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit, Zardari managed to have a brief meeting with Manmohan Singh. He found the ever so polite Mr Singh administering him a snub and that too publicly, reminding him not to allow Pakistan's soil to be used for acts of terrorism against India. It is not known what Mr Zardari told the Indian leader in private, later.</b> The recent unnecessary reiteration of his earlier questionable remark that India was not an enemy suggests that in his private talk with Mr Singh, his approach might have been one of appeasement. <b>Having swallowed the rebuff, Mr Zardari has decided not to go to Sharm-al-Shaikh NAM Meeting in Egypt and instead let PM Gilani face the odds.</b>

When it comes to the resumption of talks between the two countries, there is a clear need for an objective analysis of the changing pattern of relationships amongst USA, India and Pakistan.

<b>Pakistan is practically a US client state, dependent on doles from Washington and its allies. Islamabad has virtually become the biggest begging bowl in the world.</b> Its economy is in doldrums. It is in the throes of a bloody civil war in its North-West. Winds of alienation are blowing in its largest province. Its cities are at the mercy of suicide bombers. Every second hour or so there is a power blackout, halting the wheels of industry and of work in the offices. With hardly any foreign direct investment and a scary law and order situation the prospects of an economic turnaround are poor. A foreign power unabashedly keeps violating its territorial sovereignty day after day, week after week despite protests<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>It is indeed a measure of the Indian diplomatic skill and its established standing that it successfully and speedily dislodged Obama's thinking about India-Pakistan relations. Not only was the idea of focusing on the resolution of the Kashmir dispute given up, US bowing down to the Indian lobby in Washington, India also succeeded in detaching itself from Pakistan and instead hyphenating it with Afghanistan. Lo and behold we had become a part of the AfPak American strategy. India's concerns were thus taken care of while Pakistan was downgraded, humiliated and demoted to the level of Afghanistan.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Put differently, <b>India's new strategy is to soften Pakistan to do its bidding</b> - exploiting to the hilt, its growing relationship with USA.

Under Zardari, Pakistan truly has become a "soft state". Civilian supremacy under PPP's rule suits New Delhi as army under Kayani could be an "obstacle".<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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