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Pakistan at cross road

Friday September 19, 2008 (1252 PST)

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The changing world order always demands every member
state of world to change its foreign and domestic policy
orientations finding innovatively the ways to secure its E
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indigenous national interests. The world has been
intermixed by globalization and the events are proclaimed
by themselves. Powerful countries invested their interests M
by innovating long way forward, following the realpolitikal ost
theory of Realism. With the change of millennium, Pop
international environment of relations and retaliations ular
changed. Importantly, everyone could distinguish between
`war on terror` conundrum and fight for `energy
security`.
It was not later than September 2007 when in the library Print
of my university I found a book, interesting giving very
brief and to some extent abstract information on relations Add
between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The history might not to
need to redress here when there was only vote against Favo
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Pakistan`s UN membership and withdrawal of that vote
was driven by proposal of dialogue by Pakistan on status of
Tribal Areas and districts of Frontier and Balochistan
province which were inherently the issue between India,
Pakistan and Britain.
The author of the book deliberately pronounces that
strategically Pakistan stood more important than
Afghanistan on the covet policy documents of US. Is it true
today, No! This was true almost 50 years before. As
Pakistan was only non-communist state in between
regional powers: China; USSR; and to some extent India.
The conflict failure between China and USSR and
dissolution of later in December 1991 lead US to change its
policy regarding Afghanistan and Pakistan. The
establishment of SCO reuniting CIS states, Russia and
China and predicting the regional economic and security
integration which could encircle India and can extend to
Middle East by the gateway of Iran, US found vey less
options for its future outreach invested national interests
based on energy security in the region.
The regional political situation left Pakistan and India in a
vacuum of cooperation due to Indian theology of Related Links
superiority in the region and China Pakistan strategic
confluence of common interests. US preserved the grounds
of Afghanistan for its reach to regional invested outreach
interests including to curb the oil and gas monopoly of 25
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Russia over the CIS region; to reduce options for Iran to t
disturb the balance of power in Middle East and to of
scrutinize the Chinese covet military and diplomatic 38
prowess and more importantly to vanish the odds for kid
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Russia to be economically interdependent on these states pp
after its dismissal from Eastern Europe. Russian exit is ed
marked by last kick of anti ABM system in Poland and se
Czech Republic. Frankly speaking Pakistan did not well cu
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oversee the changing dynamics of regional situation and y
continue to struggle for the struggle of Taliban in for
Afghanistan in vain but what was alternative to that? ce
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