Is India winning? Comment
Of the 193 member-states of the UN how many support what Pakistan stands for? Can anyone name just three? What should be the goal of our foreign policy -make more friends or create new enemies?
In August, the Xinhua News Agency, the official press agency of the government of the People’s Republic of China, blamed Pakistan-based terror groups for the 2011 Kashgar attacks that left 22 dead and 42 injured. The government of Kashgar city claimed that terrorists “learned how to make explosives and firearms.....in Pakistan before entering Xinjian to organise terrorist activities.”
On September 30, the Wall Street Journal reported that “Kingho Group, one of China’s largest private coal miners ...backed out in August from a $19 billion deal in southern Sindh province because of concerns for its personnel...” This would have been the single largest foreign investment in Pakistan’s history.
On January 24, there was a suicide attack on Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport that killed 37. The Telegraph reported that the “two suicide bombers who carried out the Moscow attack were thought to be part of a suicide squad trained in Pakistan’s al-Qaeda strongholds sent to the capital to target the city’s transport system.”
Of the 193 member-states of the UN, 42 are part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquartered in Kabul. Of these, Turkey, Malaysia, the UAE, Azerbaijan, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Jordan are all Muslim-majority states, part of the OIC (Jordan has since withdrawn from ISAF). In 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “called on Pakistan to arrest the attackers” who killed 42 Iranians in Sistan-Baluchistan (BBC). In 2010, Iran’s deputy police chief “accused Pakistan of providing a haven for members of an armed rebel group that has claimed responsibility for the deadly twin suicide bombings last week in front of a mosque in the south-eastern city of Zahedan (New York Times).”
On May 2, China, France, Russia, US and the UK, as members of the Security Council, issued a presidential statement, “welcoming end of Osama bin Laden”. India, Afghanistan and the United States are now forming a regional nexus to fight extremism while Pakistan’s All Parties Conference just passed a resolution calling to “initiate dialogue” with the same extremists.
Some 5 billion living in North and South America, EU, Russia, Japan, China, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are now trying their best to harmonise their internal rules and regulations with globalised values. It’s like everyone in the world is moving towards collective security, mutually assured dependence, transparency and free trade while we, Pakistanis, continue to worship mutually assured destruction and isolation.
On November 24, 2008, the IMF rescued Pakistan under its Emergency Financing Mechanism. Pakistan, after taking in some $8 billion, failed to implement the promised fiscal disciplinary acts. On September 30, 2011, we finally sent in divorce papers. Pakistan is isolated like never before. With China in the north, India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on the west which of our neighbour really supports Pakistan’s self-righteous direction? Isn’t India winning? Modern warfare, after all, is about diplomacy and isolating your opponent. India is becoming part of the 5 billion strong ‘global functioning core’ while the world regards us as a society where globalised values are not taking roots.
The global functioning core is calling us the ‘non-integrating gap’. We need to retreat from the course taken before us by North Korea and Burma. What we need is a new national security strategy. What we need is a new foreign policy paradigm.
Of the 193 member-states of the UN how many support what Pakistan stands for? Can anyone name just three? What should be the goal of our foreign policy -make more friends or create new enemies?
In August, the Xinhua News Agency, the official press agency of the government of the People’s Republic of China, blamed Pakistan-based terror groups for the 2011 Kashgar attacks that left 22 dead and 42 injured. The government of Kashgar city claimed that terrorists “learned how to make explosives and firearms.....in Pakistan before entering Xinjian to organise terrorist activities.”
On September 30, the Wall Street Journal reported that “Kingho Group, one of China’s largest private coal miners ...backed out in August from a $19 billion deal in southern Sindh province because of concerns for its personnel...” This would have been the single largest foreign investment in Pakistan’s history.
On January 24, there was a suicide attack on Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport that killed 37. The Telegraph reported that the “two suicide bombers who carried out the Moscow attack were thought to be part of a suicide squad trained in Pakistan’s al-Qaeda strongholds sent to the capital to target the city’s transport system.”
Of the 193 member-states of the UN, 42 are part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquartered in Kabul. Of these, Turkey, Malaysia, the UAE, Azerbaijan, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Jordan are all Muslim-majority states, part of the OIC (Jordan has since withdrawn from ISAF). In 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “called on Pakistan to arrest the attackers” who killed 42 Iranians in Sistan-Baluchistan (BBC). In 2010, Iran’s deputy police chief “accused Pakistan of providing a haven for members of an armed rebel group that has claimed responsibility for the deadly twin suicide bombings last week in front of a mosque in the south-eastern city of Zahedan (New York Times).”
On May 2, China, France, Russia, US and the UK, as members of the Security Council, issued a presidential statement, “welcoming end of Osama bin Laden”. India, Afghanistan and the United States are now forming a regional nexus to fight extremism while Pakistan’s All Parties Conference just passed a resolution calling to “initiate dialogue” with the same extremists.
Some 5 billion living in North and South America, EU, Russia, Japan, China, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are now trying their best to harmonise their internal rules and regulations with globalised values. It’s like everyone in the world is moving towards collective security, mutually assured dependence, transparency and free trade while we, Pakistanis, continue to worship mutually assured destruction and isolation.
On November 24, 2008, the IMF rescued Pakistan under its Emergency Financing Mechanism. Pakistan, after taking in some $8 billion, failed to implement the promised fiscal disciplinary acts. On September 30, 2011, we finally sent in divorce papers. Pakistan is isolated like never before. With China in the north, India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on the west which of our neighbour really supports Pakistan’s self-righteous direction? Isn’t India winning? Modern warfare, after all, is about diplomacy and isolating your opponent. India is becoming part of the 5 billion strong ‘global functioning core’ while the world regards us as a society where globalised values are not taking roots.
The global functioning core is calling us the ‘non-integrating gap’. We need to retreat from the course taken before us by North Korea and Burma. What we need is a new national security strategy. What we need is a new foreign policy paradigm.
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| Even Myanmar is showing the signs of change lately. Looks like Myanmar will be a modern nation within next 5-10 years. Pakistan has to come out of Indo-phobia. Hate literature being taught in Pakistani schools has to end. Raj Kalkhande India |
| Very thoughtful analysis. A new foreign policy would be nice, perhaps a friendlier one with India would end all woes. They would understand Pakistan the most, seeing as they have about as many Muslims as Pakistan, as well as having been part of the same nation before Partition. Devan Canada |
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