Because of what they read and hear in the media, it may seem far-fetched to most US and other Western readers, but the fact is this – it is India that is lying to and cheating the US in Afghanistan, not Pakistan.
First things first. The belief in the doctrine of “American supremacy” runs deep in the culture and history of the United States. American troops quite often underestimate their foes, and such is the case with the Taliban in Afghanistan. They believe that they possess better weaponry, training and tactics than any other nation they may face as an adversary.
Such a perception has often directly led to disastrous results in US actions in Afghanistan. Believing themselves to be superior to any threat they might possibly face, US forces often throw caution to the wind during their operations. To support my arguments, I recommend viewing in full the documentary Operation Anaconda: The Battle of Roberts’ Ridge, about a three-week-long US sweep against al-Qaeda and Taliban.
Unfortunately, the Indian lobby is exploiting the US military’s mindset and further misleading the Americans by scapegoating Pakistan for the US failures in Afghanistan. India wants the US to remain entangled in Afghanistan for larger Indian interests. As a result, Afghanistan continues to bleed, Pakistan remains under pressure and most of Pakistan’s army is tied up on its western borders.
India wants the US to continue fighting the Afghan Taliban and keep arming India to “contain” China. If history is any guide, this is a target India will never be able to reach. India cannot check the rise of China.
Engendering mistrust
India is continuously endeavoring to create mistrust between Afghanistan and its neighboring country Pakistan. It is also exploiting the Afghan government’s unpopularity to defame Pakistan to generate more pressure from the US on Pakistan.
The contours of the US-India multidimensional assault on Pakistan are now taking concrete shape. Recently, a new campaign on social media in Afghanistan is being sponsored against Pakistan. Old pictures of Afghan leaders in Pakistan are being circulated to mislead the US Central Intelligence Agency. It is an effort to malign Pakistan by alleging that its Inter-Services Intelligence agency is harboring Afghan Taliban in the country.
India’s policy of encircling Pakistan with the help of anti-Pakistan elements present in Afghanistan is seriously disturbing the strategic environment of the region. Despite Pakistan combating terrorism on its western border and curbing militants in a mission spanning the whole country, immense pressure is building up as India and Afghanistan continue to accuse Pakistan of perpetrating terrorism inside their territories.
To simplify the complex issues of terrorism in Afghanistan, the United States has repeated India’s vile disinformation mantra that Pakistan is harboring Afghan Taliban on its soil. Pentagon press secretary Colonel Rob Manning demanded that the Afghan Taliban not be able to operate from Pakistani soil. Later, however, he assured, “We stand ready to work together with Pakistan to combat terrorist groups without distinction.”
This is welcome news if the US finally agrees to target the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan leadership, which is based in Afghanistan and is creating mayhem in Pakistan. Loyalty is not a one-way street. The sooner the US administration understands this, the better.
However, the US has a long tradition of not learning from past mistakes, and of never admitting that it has been in the wrong. Such an institutional culture of covering up mistakes can only lead to the same erros being repeated and resulting in yet more needless loss of life. The Americans perceive the admission of mistakes as being potentially damaging to the image of the US as the invincible superpower, thereby missing valuable learning experiences that could prevent similar errors and losses in the future.
Pakistan has been an energetic and willing partner of the US for a very long time, until recently when US understanding of the region was shaken up by the Indian lobby. The lobby appears to have been successful in creating mistrust and painting China and Pakistan as enemies of the United States. The newly released US defense strategy also indicates the commencement of great-power rivalry in the region. Regrettably, the US considers Russia and China bigger threats than the menace of international terrorism.
India has turned Afghanistan into the base for a proxy war against Pakistan. Until the US see the realities without the Indian prism, Afghanistan will remain another failed battleground for the US and a source of misfortunes for millions of people in the region.
Syed Abbas
There is no government on the planet who has perfected the art of chicanery and deceit as well as New Delhi.
New Delhi is able to present India as (hold your breadth) .. a full fledged Democracy. A functioning Democracy with a successful economy mind you. when the following is there for all to see:
pollution at epic levels, slums, street dwellers, beggars at over a 100 million, 5000 children die each day due to malnutrition, world’s worst disparity of wealth were a few million are super rich and the vast number of her 1.3 billion are super poor. Rampant Corruption, violent crimes agains women far worse than in the Muslim world and far worse than Iran yet Iran gets condemned for human rights violations, while India gets a pass. untold misery from lack of doctors, medical care. clean water, "r*pe" is epidemic. and on and on and on goes India’s misery
What does America’s Media say? "World’s largest Democracy". Next to Israel I believe India leads America by the nose.
India has been trapped in its own foreign policy dilemma. Not wanting Taliban in any peace agreement have made them invaluable for most international partners except for one, the ones who need the cheap Indian shoulder to further their geopolitical and strategic agendas. India had been using the corrupt western backed Afghan government to its advantage. Unfortunately, they have backed the wrong horse on this one again as they did in the past. They have hedged their bets on US now, who under Trumps presidency is more about America first than any one else. So good luck India as you’re gonna need it!
Spell much? It’s spelled column and not colomn you moron!
Where did you get your degree from? Oh wait, you don’t have one!
It sure makes sense to those who try to read something NOT from Indian nationalist media.
Mahendra Pratap Singh care to elaborate? The real frustrating part is how India has been kept out of the loop in the afghan game. The only real misery for them is that out of all, the only partner they found not willing to talk to Taliban is the POTUS. The very person who is willing to keep Indians out of America’s borders to further his immigration agenda and to end ‘cheap’ migration from India.
P.S. POTUS isn’t a very popular guy if you care to know.
And please stop propagating your myopic, ‘Sunday magazine’ generic approach you’ve been fed in India. Time to think before uttering nonsense.
This is what pakistan and pakis are. Just enjoy their article, even they cannot make sense of what they write.
That too from Pakistan’s world famous degree mill Axact. Their writings are fun to read, the way they come up with conspiracy theories and their self proclaimed innocence and importance.
Lot of frustration coming out of the article. But little sense.
Great article…. india is creating problems for region and for US
Yes, habit has a way of dominating thought. The animus between India and Pakistan is culturally long of tooth. Perhaps the US may be learning that it has no significant influence in settling their dispute, save containing/limiting its development and growth, realizing the use of US wealth and blood is wasteful.
The author got a degree from Pakistan university! It explains his tribal mindset in writing this colomn!
Yes they will. As I said the US-India alliance will not be as fruitful as US-Pak was.
Michael Bagala
Difficult to argue with what you say. But what is true about India and US also went for Pakistan and US, but they still allied themselves.
Some big holes in your comment
-America and India’s interest in China are not the same. India shares a border with China. America does not.
-China and Russia have a powerful Alliance India is not part of.
-China is closer to the US in development and can engage at a higher level of technology, India cannot.
-China’s global reach is closer to that of America. India reach is limited to South Asia.
-China’s silk roads are the surest link to Commerce and trade. There is nothing like that which Ameica has. India can only wish to be part of it.
-To have a "Contiguous trading block of America, UK, Japan, Australia and India the banks that control this system will be … in America or the West, not in Asia. that is another reason why China is creating her own banking systems.
-21st century is turning out to be a military face off between America and Asian powers. They are not forming alliances. America’s threats against Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and North Korea far outweigh any alliance with India.-
i hope India leads America down the ‘curry" path of lies, deceits, and fake news. She is quite capable of doing that. The elam wars Indira Gandhi started in Sri Lanka has been white washed into a tale of local ethnic rivialry. America bought that bit of Indian mythology hook line and sinker.
As long as India keeps America informed on regional matter via Bollywood style fo song and dance America will be taken. China is not that gullible.
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Whom is this writer trying to fool? Except for its local paki audience? Has the writer ever realized that US keeps intercepting the communication lines and the moles inside pakistan who inform about activities of ISI and paki army and their support to taliban and haqqani terrorists.
Its quiet obvious to any sane person who can answer y usa is still in afghanistan now that they have already achieved their targets of capturing osama etc.. India i believe is just a useless pawn of Usa that is very eager to show its new master some achievement but it has failed miserably so far and has been succesful in only creating more enemies in the region for itself.
No Mr. Malik. India is NOT exploiting US. India is doing exactly what Pakistan did for its first 50 years when US and Pak interests coincided. US-Pak alliance was marvellously successful (demolished USSR).
Today American and Indian interests are the same – to contain China, and hence the budding alliance. But India and US, playing spoilers of BRI/New Silk Road, will certainly fail miserably in their nefarious plot to withhold world progress. In the end Trade always wins over war.
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