The joint military exercises of Russian and Pakistan forces being held these days in Pakistan were bound to create unrest in India .So upset were the Indians over them that New Delhi floated a rumour in the Indian media before the start of these exercises that they have been put off .They had to eat an humble pie when contingents of the Russian forces arrived in Pakistan immediately afterwards for taking part in these exercises.
The political landscape of the world is fast changing. Islamabad is as much disappointed from Washington as Moscow is from New Delhi. After Modi’s coming into power India has fallen into the lap of Washington hook, line and sinker. Seeing Moscow disintegrated and no longer a super power it once used to be, India has started looking the other way. It has cultivated Washington. There is no love lost between New Delhi and Beijing. Washington and Beijing are also at daggers drawn. The US wants to use the stick of India for beating China. Both India and America feel they stand to gain with close economic ties with each other. These common interests have brought India and America quite closer. The US is strengthing India for using it against China. Russia, Beijing and Pakistan might forge a united bloc as a counterweight which can be later on joined by Iran also.
It is a pity that in its blind allegiance to America, Pakistan had, in the past, unnecessarily incurred animosity of the then Soviet Union for which it had to pay a heavy price. America hasn’t proved a good friend .Had it stood by us in our hour of crisis Pakistan would never have lost its eastern wing. Immediately after the creation of this country, it was the desire of Soviet leadership that the prime minister of Pakistani should, first of all, visit Moscow. Washington had by that time built up a strong US lobby for itself in the corridors of power in Pakistan which persuaded the first prime minister of Pakistan to visit Washington first instead. Things further deteroriated when Ayub Khan provided an air base near Peshawar to the US for spying over Soviet Union. Pakistan also played the role of a front line state of America in its cold war against communism whose greatest protagonist those days was Moscow.
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