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US interest in Pakistan to diminish in coming years: Speakers
[DailyTimes.pk] The speakers were unanimous in their views that the US interest in Pakistain, which has mostly been through the lens of security, will diminish in the coming years, saying there is no chance of either regression or progress in Pakistain-US relations. They said this on Saturday as the Centre for Strategic Perspectives (CSP) at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) hosted an in-house meeting on the ’Future of Pakistain-US Relations under the Biden administration’ with the research faculty from Institute of Regional Studies (IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... The speakers said that the United States is not only ending its priority on the war on terror, it is also pulling its troops out of Afghanistan, Iraq and the region, and that will diminish Pakistain’s relevance for the US. They said that US-China competition will continue to intensify, and Pakistain might be pressurised by the US to choose sides. They said that Afghanistan will continue to be an important factor in Pakistain-US relations under Biden. In the background of the US strategic relationship with India, the Biden administration will move to deepen its ties with the former rather than putting pressure on India with regard to its policies in Indian occupied Kashmir .jpg "Kashmir") ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... While there is no chance of regression, there are no chances of progress either in Pakistain-US relations, they said. They said that Pakistain will have to be cautiously optimistic in furtherance of its relations with the US, and it is imperative that Pakistain conducts its foreign policy in a manner in which the US remains engaged with Pakistain. Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-14 |
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