The logic behind the U.S bid to get its new ally India in the strategically crucial Nuclear Suppliers Group is so marred and irrational that one can only lament at the double standards of the Washington of the recent times. It is being argued by the policy-makers of America that unless India is granted the said membership the South Asia will be facing spectre of nuclear conflict. One wonders why Pakistan is not considered by the U.S for the same membership on similar grounds. The truth is that the U.S having seen its debacle in the war in Afghanistan has now finally abandoned Pakistan as its strategic ally and has committed itself to the goal of making India the driving force in the region so as to reduce the influence of Pakistan’s military in creating and maintaining power-balance in this part of the world.
It is because of this short-sighted U.S policy that Pakistan is left with no option except to depend almost entirely on China’s support and friendship to blunt the hegemonic designs in the region of its most avowed enemy India. As per the ancient wisdom, the friend of your enemy is your enemy too. So we have now to re-shape our foreign policy in a way that the U.S cannot exercise any influence in our internal matters. Presently our so-called democratic setup is depending entirely on American support for its survival. Mian Nawaz Sharif is looking in the direction of Washington to get bailed out of the quagmire of the Panama Leaks.
But it is Pakistan’s Military which now seems in charge of fulfilling Pakistan’s crucial security needs.
China’s forceful opposition to the U.S move to get India the membership of the nuclear Suppliers Group is going to frustrate the designs of the sinister U.S-India alliance. But time has come for Pakistan to tell U.S forcefully that the only way the spectre of nuclear conflict in the region can be prevented on permanent grounds is the solution of Kashmir issue, and not ‘droning’ the nuclear balance in the region.
