Can the “Pentagon-Leak” change mindsets?
(Madan Menon Thottasseri)
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U.S cannot continue its dramas further to cloud-off the imagination of the global journalists as the leaked Pentagon docs clearly revealed the U.S annoyance on the Pakistan’s ambiguous policies towards terrorism while depending on its war against militia in Afghanistan. U.S cannot conceal the double-standards of Pakistan that fights against certain extremists and simultaneously harbouring others. It is high time that U.S diplomats should deviate from the current approach of complimenting Pakistan as its unwavering ally in fighting at Afghanistan.
The leaked docs establish shocking stories to the people of U.S on Pakistan’s ISI interface with Taliban to annihilate U.S forces in Afghanistan! American victory will be a distant dream unless U.S influences Pakistan to reregulate the mindset of those at the helms of affairs in the Pakistan government in a very fundamental way.
The timing of British Prime Minister David Cameron's visit to India compelled him to comment on the WikiLeaks confirming the role of ISI indirectly fighting for Taliban. Whether he described Pak as Country, or as a regime while mentioning that "cannot tolerate in any sense the idea that this country is allowed to look both ways and is able, in any way, to promote the export of terror whether to India, whether to Afghanistan or to anywhere else in the world", actually the message must be clear to U.S!
U.S cannot be unworried as the collaboration of the terror network in Afghanistan with local insurgent groups in Afghan-Pak boarder are so active while housing training camps that are full-grown by expediently adapting into small and mobile clusters to get ignored by security forces. U.S had been depending on Pakistan right from the day the reports on these camps captured news headlines since last year though the U.S investigators had probed the accused New York terror suspect Najibullah Zazi, the Afghan expatriate who had fled to Pakistan and camped at Peshawar in the North-West frontier for undergoing training on weapons and explosives. The latest U.S trepidation relates to the Pak involvement of terror attacks targeting America and England as per the indictment by the DoJ (Dept. of Justice).
India is in a perennial security issue that is entangled into with Pakistan, the epic-centre of the terrorism in the world. India could not send any signal to the U.S administration on the threat of deceitfulness while depending on Pakistan to eliminate terrorism in Afghan or Afghan-Pak boarder. The main constraint in Pakistan will be the reluctance to look at terrorism at the level global perspective much beyond the warmth of religious doctrines or regional pressures, in all strata of society or regime.
We in India know that Pakistan can never succeed to shut down terror groups. Will U.S stop believing Pakistan beyond its limits? Why no tactics of international politics and diplomacy could win terrorists burgeoning out of Pakistan soil one after the other? The fact is that Terror kingpins are privileged to get security cover and even honored by the Political democracy including Legislature, Executive and judiciary, which are under the clemency of joint consortiums of military and mafia.
It is ironical that the episode of Pentagon leak had happened at this time when U.S is in the process of empowering Pakistan with massive arms aid presumably for combating terrorism! Real disgrace to U.S! This sort of total prejudice and absurdity is to be condemned by the global communities.
It is very pity that India could not even react forcefully. Instead took it lightly by the Defense Minister A.K.Antony and expressed concerns of the nation while exchanging pleasantries with the visiting U.S Chairman of Joint Chief of Staffs- Admiral Mike Mullen. This lopsided U.S aid to Pakistan towards the defenselessness to the fear of Taliban attacks will have an easy mishandling against India! The very purpose signing a comprehensive counter-terror initiative between India and U.S will go in vain.
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(Madan Menon Thottasseri)
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U.S cannot continue its dramas further to cloud-off the imagination of the global journalists as the leaked Pentagon docs clearly revealed the U.S annoyance on the Pakistan’s ambiguous policies towards terrorism while depending on its war against militia in Afghanistan. U.S cannot conceal the double-standards of Pakistan that fights against certain extremists and simultaneously harbouring others. It is high time that U.S diplomats should deviate from the current approach of complimenting Pakistan as its unwavering ally in fighting at Afghanistan.
The leaked docs establish shocking stories to the people of U.S on Pakistan’s ISI interface with Taliban to annihilate U.S forces in Afghanistan! American victory will be a distant dream unless U.S influences Pakistan to reregulate the mindset of those at the helms of affairs in the Pakistan government in a very fundamental way.
The timing of British Prime Minister David Cameron's visit to India compelled him to comment on the WikiLeaks confirming the role of ISI indirectly fighting for Taliban. Whether he described Pak as Country, or as a regime while mentioning that "cannot tolerate in any sense the idea that this country is allowed to look both ways and is able, in any way, to promote the export of terror whether to India, whether to Afghanistan or to anywhere else in the world", actually the message must be clear to U.S!
U.S cannot be unworried as the collaboration of the terror network in Afghanistan with local insurgent groups in Afghan-Pak boarder are so active while housing training camps that are full-grown by expediently adapting into small and mobile clusters to get ignored by security forces. U.S had been depending on Pakistan right from the day the reports on these camps captured news headlines since last year though the U.S investigators had probed the accused New York terror suspect Najibullah Zazi, the Afghan expatriate who had fled to Pakistan and camped at Peshawar in the North-West frontier for undergoing training on weapons and explosives. The latest U.S trepidation relates to the Pak involvement of terror attacks targeting America and England as per the indictment by the DoJ (Dept. of Justice).
India is in a perennial security issue that is entangled into with Pakistan, the epic-centre of the terrorism in the world. India could not send any signal to the U.S administration on the threat of deceitfulness while depending on Pakistan to eliminate terrorism in Afghan or Afghan-Pak boarder. The main constraint in Pakistan will be the reluctance to look at terrorism at the level global perspective much beyond the warmth of religious doctrines or regional pressures, in all strata of society or regime.
We in India know that Pakistan can never succeed to shut down terror groups. Will U.S stop believing Pakistan beyond its limits? Why no tactics of international politics and diplomacy could win terrorists burgeoning out of Pakistan soil one after the other? The fact is that Terror kingpins are privileged to get security cover and even honored by the Political democracy including Legislature, Executive and judiciary, which are under the clemency of joint consortiums of military and mafia.
It is ironical that the episode of Pentagon leak had happened at this time when U.S is in the process of empowering Pakistan with massive arms aid presumably for combating terrorism! Real disgrace to U.S! This sort of total prejudice and absurdity is to be condemned by the global communities.
It is very pity that India could not even react forcefully. Instead took it lightly by the Defense Minister A.K.Antony and expressed concerns of the nation while exchanging pleasantries with the visiting U.S Chairman of Joint Chief of Staffs- Admiral Mike Mullen. This lopsided U.S aid to Pakistan towards the defenselessness to the fear of Taliban attacks will have an easy mishandling against India! The very purpose signing a comprehensive counter-terror initiative between India and U.S will go in vain.
