Arc of Crisis
By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics • 6 Commentshe newly-appointed US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke is not new to the region. But he remained here three decades ago and one would think that he is out of touch of the issues related to the South Asia. But his recent press briefings, media statements and the articles in various journals are clearly demonstrating that the man has got some strong clues about the overall situation of the region, he is about to look after for the Americans.
Following is what Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke has said in his recent article in the Foreign Affairs magazine:
At the heart of the United States geo-strategic challenge lie five countries with linked borders: the United States’ Nato ally Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. In this arc of crisis, incoherence has marked US policy since 2003. This five-nation area falls into three different regional bureaus in the State Department. Washington preaches different policies on democracy in neighbouring countries, confusing everyone — pressuring Israel and the Palestinians, for example, into letting Hamas, the ‘terrorist organisation’, run in the 2006 Palestinian elections, with disastrous results, while backing away from democracy promotion in Egypt. There is little coordination or integration of policies toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, although the two countries now constitute a single theater of war. No single concept beyond the vague “global war on terror” — defined in any way that suits the short-term needs of the administration — has guided US strategy. Relations with all five countries have deteriorated.
Holbrooke is not directly related to the India, but it must not overlook Indian influence in the region, especially in the so-called ‘arc of crisis.’ Indians are busy in deteriorating the situation in Afghanistan and in the Balochistan area of Pakistan. They are also behind the CIA-funded Jundullah outfit which strikes in Iran at times. They are also interested in having control over Balochistan through BLA to get gas from Iran and to fail the Gawadar project. Recent Mumbai attacks have not only exposed the gravity of militancy in the region, but also have exposed the true Indian intentions. They are not interested in making the region more safe, as they have refused to work with Pakistan, rather they are interested in making Pakistan more pariah, more vulnerable to the terrorism.
Arc of Crisis doesn’t exist in vacum.
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Brig Sahib an interesting article for you;
Understanding Pakistan’s response to Mumbai
by Praveen Swami
“More than half-a-century ago, two of Pakistan’s most eminent judges drew this bleak lesson from a wave of violence that had led the country into the first of its many experiences of martial law: “As long as we rely upon the hammer when a file is needed and press Islam into service to solve situations it was never intended to solve,” wrote Justice Muhammad Munir and Justice Mohammad Rustam Kayani, “frustration and disappointment must dog our steps.”
Pakistan’s establishment didn’t listen then — and does not seem to be listening now. Ever since the Lashkar-e-Taiba’s attack on Mumbai, commentators have been struggling to explain just why Pakistan appears so reluctant to act decisively against the perpetrators. Some have focussed on the Lashkar’s patronage by the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate; others on the Pakistani military’s hopes of weakening President Asif Ali Zardari. All these explanations have merit but miss a critical element: the slow transformation of the Pakistani state itself into an instrument of the jihadist agenda.”
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/26/stories/2009012650570800.htm
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Brig,
Why cant you read newspaper articles for finding some facts on the things that you are trying to write. You have said India does not want peace in the region, so many Indians can say the same thing about Pakistan, they don’t want peace in the region as they support terror groups against India.
Why is it that you hate India so much?
Brig, I want a answer from you this time on the question, why do you hate India so much?
Well, if the Army and it’s zealots have to survive in Pakistan, they have to continually whip up the bogey of India and create a paranoia in their citizens! That’s what these people are doing
Brigadier Saheb,
You are true to your tradition from the days when your nation joined SEATO/CENTO. Your Army has been currying favour from Americans by killing Palestinians, Indians,bangladeshies.
today you are inviting this MONSTER INTO YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD AND ASKING HIM TO INCLUDE INDIA INTO THIS AGENDA!!!
Your nation and army cannot survive without the Drug money which Afghan war lords are providing to ISI through UK/canadain forces.
I understand that Drug whihc is sold in $70 per kg in afghanistan is sold in pakistan and India for $35/- subsidised by Americans so that our nation gets addicted to Drugs and your LET and ISI are playing an important part in it.