Dalrymple in his eassy, A deadly triangle – Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, has endorsed the old Anglo-American thesis that solving the Kashmir problem to the satisfaction of Pakistan is necessary for the peace in the Indian sub-continent. Now, Dalrymore has added Afghanistan to the mix. When Chinese attackted India in 1962, UK & USA tried to force India to compromise on Kashmir. Pandit Nehru did not bend to their will. As Rajiv Dogra (DNA,July 17) has pointed out, India has been helping Afghanistan in its economic development without getting involved in the fight between the government of Afghanistan, NATO countries and the USA with the Taliban. It is the Pakistani government which is seeking to dominate Afghanistan to fulfil its desire for ' strategic depth', and it is well-known secret that Taliban is the creation of ISI. The Pakistani military has used the bogey of India to gather power for itself most of these years since the establishment of Pakistan. It is very difficult to predict the stability of the present civilian government. The elite of Pakistan blame America, India and Isreal for its ills, says the famous Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid in his book, Pakistan on the Brink : The Future of America, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Dalrymple's essay looks more like a ploy to pressurise India. We have to be beware.
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/1862092/column-dalrymple-conjures-up-a-dangerous-triangle
July 17,2013.
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