Delhi has tried to put a brave face to the situation it faces in Kabul. It has used project in Afghanistan to partition the country. India using ‘aid’ to Kabul- to split Afghanistan. Now the Afghans don’t want this sort of aid to continue.
What does “aid with changed nuances’ mean. That is diplomatic doublespeak for pared down projects run by Afghans only. This heralds amass exodus of Bharatis (aka Indians) from Afghanistan. Delhi can no longer afford to keep its citizens in a sea of hostility.
Delhi’s fiasco on Afghanistan, and its diplomatic isolation leaves it with few options–escalate the propaganda against Pakistan, try to re-build its relationship with Russia, try to pressure the US into accepting its hegemony in the region, create a spectacularly bloody event (false flag) totry to change word opinion, reach out to the Indian diaspora in the US and ask the heavyweights in the Congress to bail it out with some Indophile legislation (a la Pressler Amendment) and continue the bluster “we will stay the course”.
Bharat (aka India) also has the options of trying to again reach out to the Central Asian republics and seek a footing It is pedagogical to note that Bharat has been evicted from Tajikistan, and its field hospital–subsequently converted into a “base” is no longer in service.
- http://www.hindustanglobe.com/?p=3
- http://www.hindustanglobe.com/?p=76
- Brilliant Blunder of Bharat (aka India)
After massive Foreign Policy failure Delhi needs new strategy. While The Hindus, Times of India, The Pioneer, and other Bharati media outlets have written reams on the malaise of the Bharat’s failed foreign policy–the official statements continue to sing the old tune of “Jan Ganh man, Adhee Nayak…”. Indian presence in Afghanistan is history!
- Crescent and Star over Mountain Couldron
- ‘Your country is located on the other side of the world so what are you doing here?’ Ahmadinejad
- http://thedawn.com.pk/2010/03/18/us-pakistan-strategic-dialogue-a-new-beginning-or-a-lot-of-jaw-jaw/
- India in Afghanistan doesn’t serve US interests
New Delhi, Mar 19 (PTI): Making its strategy clear on Afghanistan, India today said it was committed to its developmental partnership with it and rejected Pakistan’s claim of gaining centrality in that country.
Terming links between India and Afghanistan as “symbiotic”, top officials here said the two sides were joined together by history and civilisation and the developmental work being carried out by India was without any “ulterior motive”.
Asserting that India was doing what Afghans want, they said “the projects were Afghan-led, Afghan-driven” and the country will continue accepting their request for any developmental assistance but may do it with “changed nuances.
- http://www.timesofkabul.com/?p=47
- http://www.timesofkabul.com/?p=12
- http://www.timesofkabul.com/?p=30
- Indian Monkey Business called diplomacy
India’s brilliant blunder in Afghanistan. Bharat has to reinvent itself, and may be incapable of doing so.
- Why the US gave up India as a strategic partner
- India’s worst nightmares come true: Long term strategic malaise
Pakistan’s ace in the hole is an agreement with Iran, and all the neighbors of Afghanistan. Thus, this is not just a return to the 90s when Iran, and Pakistan were at odds fighting for the same space. This time around, Iran, and Turkey have already created a consensus with Pakistan. Iran and China also supported the London Conference decisions–dialogue with the Taliban, and anointment of Pakistan as a broker of peace in Kabul. Chagrined Bharat is looking at options to withdraw completely from Kabul. Bharat’s retreat from Kabul is inevitable, and Bharat will have to do it before 2011.
All countries are working on peace in Kabul–except one. Bharat has consistently managed to aggravate each and every one its neighbors, Nepal, Lanka, China, Maldives, Sikkim, Bhutan and Pakistan. Even Bangladesh is extremely angry with Delhi ton immigration, on the Border Security force, and for Bharat’s illegal support for the terrorist among the Chittagong Hill Tracks.
A seminal article that describes the pickle Bharat finds itself in.
Here is an excerpt from that article.
If Delhi failed to anticipate this shift in Karzai’s order of priorities, it has only itself to blame. Thus, even in the face of impending realignments in the Afghan political and military situation that were obvious to most perceptive foreign observers, Delhi kept up the presence of a few thousands Indians in Afghanistan whose security becomes now almost entirely its responsibility to shoulder.
The malaise of the Bharati foreign policy in Afghanistan and beyond is defined below.
In retrospect, Delhi’s hare-brained idea of a US-led “quadripartite alliance” against China, the “Tibet card”, the dilution of a 2003 strategic understanding with Iran, neglect of the traditional friendship with Russia, the lukewarm attitude toward the SCO, exaggerated notions within the establishment regarding the US-India strategic partnership as an alternative to an independent foreign policy and diversified external relationships – all these appear now like dreadful pantomimes out of India’s foreign policy chronicle of recent years that Delhi would rather not think about.Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
