🇮🇳🇵🇰 One thing that was not endemic among the rulers of the princely states was religious extremism. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the current prime minister of India and the radical Islamist political leaders of Pakistan.

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🇦🇫🇮🇳🇵🇰🇺🇸 Biden and his hawks should pause to think where they’re trying to take the world, and consider an approach that could lead to compromise.

India and Pakistan share a long border and do not get along well, to put it mildly. The main cause of disagreement is the divided territory of Kashmir which as long ago as 1948 necessitated UN Security Council attention, resulting in a Resolution determining, among other things, that there should be a “free and impartial plebiscite to decide whether the State of Jammu and Kashmir is to accede to India or Pakistan.” This has not happened and the seemingly insoluble dispute could well lead to a fourth war between the countries, both of which are nuclear-armed.

It might be thought that in such circumstances the world’s “best-educated, best-prepared” nation that President Biden also declares has “unmatched strength” would apply at least some of its education, preparation and power to encouraging India and Pakistan to engage in meaningful negotiations and move towards rapprochement.

Not a hope.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/10/19/washington-wants-to-conquer-by-dividing/

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🇦🇫 New trends that have appeared in regional security since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan are highly consequential for regional politics.

The joint statement issued on February 6 following the four-day visit by the Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to China has been an exceptional gesture by Beijing underscoring the highest importance attached to that country as a regional ally. Beijing feels the need to underscore that not only does it back the government in Islamabad to the hilt but is determined to boost the ties, especially by boosting the flagship of the Belt and Road Initiative known as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

Aside its overt emphasis on the launch of the CPEC’s Phase 2, the two highlights of the joint statement are: one, the affirmation that ’stronger’ defence and security cooperation will be ‘an important factor of peace and stability in the region,’ and, two, the joint initiative to take up with the Taliban government the holding of the China-Pakistan-Afghanistan Trilateral Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue as well as the ‘extension of CPEC to Afghanistan.’

Read more by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/02/08/pakistan-in-eye-of-storm/

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🇵🇰🦅 NATO’s perpetual wars are hell, for those whose lives they destroy, and an abomination that must be ended for the rest of us.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/13/americas-whoops-apocalypse-is-just-not-cricket/

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🇨🇳🇵🇰 A Baloch suicide bombing targeting Chinese workers in Karachi comes a mere month after the US-backed ousting of PM Imran Khan.

Pakistan is a critical BRI hub in Beijing’s vast Eurasian connectivity project, and it looks like CPEC is the ultimate target of this disruption.

💬 By Pepe Escobar: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/05/07/terror-from-balochistan-a-menacing-tool-to-disrupt-sino-pakistani-economics/

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🇮🇳🇵🇰🇨🇳 Is India doing Washington’s bidding by disrupting China’s strategic interests in Pakistan?

A recent surge in deadly terrorist attacks on China’s strategic partnership projects in Pakistan has raised concerns that a foreign sponsor may be orchestrating the violence.

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