Big Game in the Region !

Isolating Pakistan from Afghanistan

Following Operation Geronimo, the secretive Indo-US alliance in Afghanistan is brought to the fore. Most certainly, bringing the Indians to Afghanistan is part of the Indo –US strategic partnership that also includes transfer of US nuclear and missile technology to India.

This game is being played just to ensure the survival of the puppet regime in Kabul. It shows how important Afghanistan is to the United States that it is sacrificing Pakistan after declaring it “ Major Non-NATO Ally.”

At present, the US administration is no longer interested in the security interest of Pakistan or any Pak mediation role with Taliban. The Americans are contacting Taliban and holding talks with them both in Qatar and Germany in accordance with a well conceived plan to reintegrate Taliban into the ruling Afghan regime. With Al-Qaeda in a state of disarray following the physical liquidation of Osama bin Laden, the stage is set to delink Taliban from Al-Qaeda, a prerequisite to the programme of Afghan reconciliation.

To ensure the isolation of Pakistan from the Afghan scene, the US administration is waging an unprecedented media war against the military and security establishment to the extent that it has nearly closed down communications between the United States and Pakistan. Ostensibly this policy is paving the way for replacing Pakistan with India in Afghanistan. This reading is reinforced by the visit of Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh to Kabul on May 12-13 in which he committed $500 million to infrastructure projects and training Afghan police. Actually the grant is a price for introducing the Indians everywhere in Afghanistan under the pretext of implementing “ development projects.”

Viewing this unbelievable strategy, one can argue that the Americans are making a blunder by isolating Pakistan and ignoring the geography and common history between Pakistan and Afghanistan and by bringing an outsider not only to fill the void but also to create more instability and complications in the region. Additionally, no other neighbouring states or regional powers especially Central Asian Republic, China and Russia would accept aliens in Afghanistan or any other destabilizing power .

Most probably, the American administration has grossly miscalculated by ignoring the impact of such strategy on the national security of Pakistan and its reaction. You simply cannot replace one imperial power with another and presume that the Afghans would accept Hindu imperialists. Both the Americans and the Indians fail to show to their peoples and the international community as to why would the Afghans not targets the Indians following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The American decision makers also ignored the fact that no regime in Pakistan would accept Indian domination of Afghanistan and creating another hostile front in addition to the highly destabilized Easter Front. You simply cannot push a nuclear power to the wall and presume that you can get away with it.

On their part, the Indians are standing on the wrong side of history by siding with a defeated colonial power. Certainly they would never be accepted by the Afghan people since they are seen as an extension to the American regime that devastated the Afghan people by brutal force. They would definitely expose themselves to a Third Afghan Jihad once the American complete their retreat from Afghanistan.

Viewing the events of the last decade, it is clear that Washington and New Delhi have worked out a very close strategy to gradually cut off Pakistan from Afghanistan. One of the most outstanding outcome of this strategy is creating , training and arming TTP in a bid to transfer the Afghan battle deep into FATA and Pakistani cities. First, the TTP fighters are trained in Guantanamo camps. Subsequently, the are released and sent to Afghan territories where Indians military personnel disguised as security guards trained them and pushed them to Pakistan to target the Pak army and security agencies. This policy is similar to the policy of creating the so-called Sahawaat mercenary troops in Iraq to fight the American war against the national Iraqi resistance.

Earlier, the game of creating Indo and US supported TTP mercenaries were kept top secret. The Americans deceived Pakistan by the “ strategic dialogue” and Kerry Lugar bill. India showed some unexplained flexibility when it unconditionally agreed to resume the composite dialogue.

Evidently, the game was to divert the attention from the Indo-US scheme to destabilize Pakistan and to shift chaos and anarchy from Afghanistan to everywhere in Pakistan. Once, this is achieved, Washington and New Delhi would combine to seize the nuclear and missile assets of Pakistan, ensure its Balkanization and advance towards Chinese Tibet and Xingjian.