Aryan please use the original title..
sorry sir will do in future. I thought there wasnt a facilaty to change title once its up there?
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Aryan please use the original title..
Why afternoon?? You got a breakfast meeting or something ???![]()
Its the winters.. you are welcome to go outdoors before 11.. at below freezing temperatures.

Whether the world likes it or not, Pakistani governorship of Afghanistan is more or less a given. The point to ponder is: What thereafter? Will a Pakistani-Chinese axis lead to further military adventures? In its current state of financial helplessness the Western world may not have either the resources or the will to confront the Pakistan-Chinese juggernaut.

Good point.. So lets plan to have dinner together in Delhi![]()
Yep! Here....Can someone recollect-compress-deliver the whole article?
Pakistan Army screwing Americans over.. Pakistan and China will attack India tomorrow afternoon.
Why are so many Indians scared of Pakistan when pakistan is much smaller than India???
Pakistan on steroids
Author: Rajiv Dogra
Despite being a terror-sponsoring state, Pakistan has America wrapped around its fingers. This means it will be back to the past in Afghanistan.
From the very beginning Pakistan has suffered from a confusion of identities. A single mesmerising bond apart, it is otherwise a mish-mash of conflicting regional interests and contrasting ethnicities. Yet, throughout its short history Pakistan has bewildered its critics by lurching from crisis to crisis, but surviving somehow. Rather, it seems to have emerged militarily charged after every trial. Thats why Pakistans Army chiefs and its military dictators have invariably exercised unbridled control over the country.
Pakistans current Army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, has gone a step beyond his predecessors; like them he has absolute power within the country, but he adds to that with an awesome aura over the Americans too. They address their most important appeals to him rather the civilian Government. It may have been in recognition of this reality that the former US President George W Bush said in Mumbai recently, Pakistan is a very dangerous place.
He added that American patience with it is wearing thin. That may be so, but in so far as Pakistan is concerned that does not deter its current ambitions. Pakistans Army, because nothing else is crucial to strategy making there, is determined not to miss their big chance. As Mr Bush also said in Mumbai, timing is crucial in making history. The Pakistani Army is convinced that history beckons it now; that its moment in Afghanistan has arrived, that its success there is directly proportional to American withdrawal. And they may not be wrong in that assessment.
There was a time after the USSRs withdrawal from Afghanistan when the average Pakistani truly believed that it was responsible for the defeat and subsequent disintegration of a superpower. For that reason Pakistans Prime Minister of the time, Mr Nawaz Sharif, was often called Fateh Kabul, the vanquisher of Kabul. As and when America pulls out its troops, largely or completely, from Afghanistan, the people of Pakistan might take it as the final proof that they are directly, or indirectly, responsible for the defeat of two superpowers and their eventual decline. Pakistan would be on steroids then.
That would spur it on to further glory. In that case, Afghanistan may turn out to be just the first step in Pakistans larger and more ambitious agenda. Its Taliban surrogates had set their eyes on domination of Central Asia when they had first installed their regime in Kabul. They may even have succeeded then but for 9/11; Tajikistan was engaged in a bloody civil war, the radical fringe there was just a whisker short of victory, and Uzbekistan was balanced uneasily with the Hizb cadre lurking menacingly in Fergana valley. The Central Asian regimes and their security systems have gathered strength since then, but the message of radical Islam is potent among the masses.
Pakistans interest in Central Asia is not just religion-driven. The domination of raw material and energy resources figures prominently in its calculations. China has already established a wide network that ensures large amounts of oil and gas supply to it from Central Asia. Once Pakistan is established there the region may well transform into their joint strategic backyard. But why should anyone grudge Pakistan its desire to control fully or partially the energy and raw material resources in its neighbourhood? After all, it will only be putting into practice the tactics that it has learnt from US.
That, indeed, is the irony of the relationship. The US may set the agenda, but Pakistan invariably manoeuvres the results. Despite an outward show of compliance, Pakistan is the decisive factor in this relationship. As the neck is to a face, Pakistan has invariably determined the direction in which America should turn. The latest case in point is Ms **Hillary Clintons visit to Pakistan. She had gone there accompanied by the defence and intelligence brass on a mission to force compliance, but Pakistani Generals seem to have stared them down.
This is not the only instance of Pakistani adamancy, in fact in every collaboration it has extracted the maximum financially, materially and militarily. During their joint operations in the 1980s against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan, Pakistan had ensured that the US flooded it with military equipment of all types, and helped in building up a highly motivated cadre which the world would later come to know as the Taliban.
Since then Pakistan has been in denial; of producing cadre of terror as in a hatchery, of funding them, of selecting targets for them to attack, of nuclear proliferation and of running drugs internationally. Whenever the international society has confronted it with evidence of its complicity, it talks its way out brazenly.
Iraq was bombed mercilessly for far less and Muammar Gadaffi consigned to brutal death for reasons that remain opaque. Now Iran is on watch for its supposed nuclear status. But Pakistan manages consistently to escape censure. It has crossed and re-crossed the nuclear Rubicon at will, it has broken almost every norm of diplomatic behaviour, and it stonewalls all queries about the misdoings of its ISI. Yet it faces no opprobrium.
The question that the international community often asks itself is this: How is it that Pakistan is able to get away with being dangerous to the rest of the world? Its footprint is clearly linked to terror strikes in most parts of the world. As former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, Seventy per cent of terror plots in the UK have their source in Pakistan. There may be a pause currently in terror attacks, but it is tactical and temporary.
Pakistans current attention is focussed fully on Afghanistan. All terror activity is concentrated there with the single objective of making life difficult for the ISAF. Though Mr Bush maintained in Mumbai that American patience with Pakistan is wearing thin, the harsh reality is that Pakistan doesnt care. It knows that with the presidential election in the US drawing near, President Barack Obama cant escalate the war in Afghanistan. He will simply not be able to justify an increase in body bags to America. More crucially, Pakistan is convinced that America wont be able to take it on militarily. The Pakistani Army has been so richly equipped and trained by the US that its soldiers may prove to be an equal match for any military force.
Whether the world likes it or not, Pakistani governorship of Afghanistan is more or less a given. The point to ponder is: What thereafter? Will a Pakistani-Chinese axis lead to further military adventures? In its current state of financial helplessness the Western world may not have either the resources or the will to confront the Pakistan-Chinese juggernaut. Pakistan would be on a confrontational high consequently, crushing dissent internally and menacing all outside. Mr Bushs assertion that Pakistan is a dangerous place may seem like an understatement then.
(The writer is a former Ambassador.)(who are supposed to know a thing or two eh??:
Pakistan on steroids
Good point.. So lets plan to have dinner together in Delhi![]()