Opinion Duping Uncle Sam
With admirable brevity,Pratap B. Mehta describes todays America and Pakistan. Despite its many thinktanks...
With admirable brevity,Pratap B. Mehta describes todays America and Pakistan (The great gameplan,IE,July 22). Despite its many thinktanks,the US has inflicted too many wounds on itself challenging the former Soviet Union and intervening militarily in Latin America and the Middle East,where it had promoted autocratic regimes.
In the three Indo-Pak wars,the only beneficiary from the American perspective is their military-industrial complex. Coming to the present,Pakistan is simply duping its benefactor. After 9/11,Colin Powell warned Pervez Musharraf that his country would be bombed back to the Stone Age if it didnt support the US. America also entertained a false hope that Osama bin Laden would be handed over by Pakistan. The rest is history in the making. The post script to this emerging uneasy scenario will be America exiting from that part of the subcontinent,simply saving its face.
P. Kanaka Durga
Rightly spoken
This refers to the report Pillai was spot on,his timing was off: Krishna (IE,July 22). Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai did nothing wrong in saying that Pakistans ISI had played a very significant role in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. He only said what the David Headley told interrogators in the presence of FBI agents. By publicly berating Pillai,External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna has let down the people of India. It is Indias misfortune to have a political leadership which has no courage to even tell,let alone take on,Pakistan plainly that its army and the ISI are hand-in-glove with terrorists bleeding India.
M.C. Joshi
After US exit
The editorial Uncertain outcomes (IE,July 22) has well described the scenario after the exit of the US and Nato forces from Afghanistan. Whatever Barack Obama and international donors say,every thing is over,barring the shouting. President Hamid Karzai is practically being presented with a fait accompli to face the music and fend for himself. In this situation,Karzai will have no option but to compromise and cohabit with forces now gunning for his government. The Taliban will call the shots,and worst of all,poacher Pakistan will turn gamekeeper and have the last laugh. India will not have much to do in Afghanistan and may ultimately call it quits. Its very clear that things are going back to square one all because of the USs short-sightedness.
Tarsem Singh
New Delhi
House fights
With regard to the violent activities in the Bihar assembly,it goes against democratic norms and public interest when unruly behaviour of legislators wastes huge amounts of public money. Its time the behaviour of parliamentarians and state legislators was brought under the normal law of the land. If such immunity continues,the day may not be far when quarrels among members turn fatal.
Madhu Agrawal
Delhi
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