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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met US President Barack Obama to dissolve some concerns over Indo-Pak relations,an opinion piece in the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China,Peoples Daily,has said.
In a comment on Singhs Washington visit,the piece says that India fears that it is a variable factor in the US plan to counter terror in South Asia and the visit was intended precisely to address concerns in its relations with Pakistan.
The daily says that since Obama assumed presidency in January,Pakistan has occupied a position of crucial importance in the South Asia policy of the US and India fears that its role would be reduced to a mere regional one as it would get tangled in complex geopolitical equations.
It also pokes fun at the Indian role in the region by saying that New Delhi has come to realise that its involvement is needed only to ease relations with Pakistan. Indian strategists,however,come to realise that the US hinges on Pakistan and Afghanistan instead of India in counter-terrorism in South Asia,and Indias involvement in the US efforts to fight terrorism is devised only to ease the strained relations between India and Pakistan, it says.
While there was no comment on Singhs statement during the visit that China is becoming increasingly assertive in recent times,the piece says that India is as an indispensable or irreplaceable partner to the US in the fight against terror but added the caveat that it would depend on whether Obamas new Afghan strategy works out.
The American side has referred to India as an indispensable or irreplaceable partner in the fight against terrorism in the South Asia region and or on whether President Obamas new Afghan strategy would pay off, it says.
