Hussain Haqqani in Civil Nuclear Cooperation with Pakistan: Prospects and Consequences appeared to be much more conscious, worried and troubled (even more than the U.S. itself) over the media reports that “elements in the current US administration think they can secure change in Pakistan’s policies by offering it a nuclear accord along the lines offered to India in 2005”.
Citing a couple of articles published in Washington Post and New York Times, the ladle lobbyist continued to be in some sort of unhinge and covetous on a supposed civil nuclear deal with Pakistan in return to restrict the nuclear arsenal of the country.
The former “Pakistan ambassador” to the United States during 2008-2011 annulled the U.S. approach to limit the nuclear arsenal of Pakistan while kept reminding the Pakistan military and economic indebtedness to U.S gratitude during 1980s proxy war in Afghanistan and post 9/11 era of war on terror.
The absconder from the courts of Pakistan failed to realize the historical facts that at both times of 1980s and 9/11; it was the U.S. who appealed Pakistan to fight its self imposed cold war and war on terror and repeatedly remained grateful for the level of incessant, unending support and cooperation across disciplines to Pakistan.
It is responding Farid Zakaria and Kevin Hulbert, arms industry or U.S. cost of wars, all of these reflect the hardcore ground realities and importance and cooperation of Pakistan with the U.S. over the decades. The world is changing and redefining new blocks and such people are living through 1980s.
Do the Math: Global War on Terror has killed 4-million Muslims or more reveals some horrible body count including Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and the just the cumulative direct war appropriation/spending of the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan has been nearly 4260% and 3716% respectively as compared to Pakistan.
The paid plotter then lashes onto Pakistan for being a smaller in size and economy to India and grouse Pakistan army’s dominance in all areas so suggesting no smaller nation has the right to exist, defend or be sovereign.
Today India is propelled as it could challenge China’s outgrowth with 1/3rd in size, 2.5 times lesser in GDP (PPP), 5 times more population below poverty line and about 1/7th of exports but one of the largest arms buyer in the world. Whereas arms industry is criterion of the dominance of the armies around the globe but the biased eyes and brain could see and think just of Pakistan’s.
“Jihadi proxies” in Afghanistan, Kashmir and India is yet another wicked notion to malign and pound on army of Pakistan. Again he deliberately masked the specifics as U.S. herself engaged proxies in Afghanistan, Kashmir is always a disputed area and is occupied by India so as the sleeper cells and Indian proxies like BLA in Pakistan. How a former ambassador and director for south and central Asia is trying to make Congress a dupe.
Referring Musharraf, considered the most trusted ally of the U.S. in Pakistan for years, he draws attention to his interview where he allegedly admitted to supporting Taliban even after 9/11 due to concern on close relations between India and Afghanistan. Thus, from 2001 to 2008, the U.S. was effectively arming a country that was, in turn, arming insurgents fighting and killing American troops in Afghanistan.
Comical and outrageous, the interview was taken in February where the Musharraf admitted to support Taliban but the whole world didn’t weigh this billion dollar confession including the U.S. Nine months later, an intellectual named Hussian Huqqani diverted the whole world attention to this classic revelation.
How simply he undermined the intelligence capability of the United States in the region with all the military, communicational and technological resources. He should rather be hired by the U.S. military and immediately deputed to Afghanistan to take control of the action in the region. Even more, when the entire world is appreciating the efforts of Pakistan and its armed forces to fight terrorism, he is the one who ponders otherwise.
The wisdom of exploiting American weapons against India is yet another silly, outlandish argument as if you are given a weapon to counter terrorism but you should not bring into play if you are facing a life threat from anyone else!
Haqqani meaningfully praised General Raheel Sharif “By all accounts Gen Sharif is a good man but such expectations were also voiced about his predecessor, General Kayani and his predecessor General Musharraf. Like with his predecessors the US sees General Sharif as representing a new beginning: He is non-political, opposes terrorism and is pro-Western. Ironically, all these qualities were also attributed to his predecessors.”
“The recent Pakistani announcement about an ‘India-centric’ tactical nuclear program indicates that despite serious threats to Pakistan’s security by Jihadi extremists, India — an American friend — remains the principal enemy in the eyes of Pakistan’s leaders.”
Therefore in his spectacle, it doesn’t count to what extent Pakistan especially Pakistan Army has provided support to the U.S. at the cost of economy or casualties; they stay unreliable, capricious to the United States and their friend, India.
Plainly, along these lines, his focal point is neither the United States nor its strategic interests but to slander Pakistan and architecting vagueness and disparity between the U.S. and Pakistan to safeguard his new master “India”!