Naturally, this development is
not palatable to US as not only it
helps America’s ‘rival’ China to
strengthen itself, but also makes
Pakistan’s bondage with China
stronger. How to reverse the
Pakistani rulers from this course
or how to face the consequences
of growing Pakistan and China
relationship are the questions of
serious concern for the US.
Another development is: US
could not reap the expected fruits
from its war of invasion in
Afghanistan.
Earlier, when Obama had
declared the withdrawal of US
troops from Afghanistan, of
course, there existed a govt. But
it was most unpopular among the
people. Vast areas of Afghanistan
were controlled by the Taliban. The
Afghan armed forces were facing
heavy losses and defeats in the
Taliban attacks in spite of having
help and guidance from the US
military officials who stayed back
in Afghanistan. America’s so
called peace diplomacy which
sought to win over a section of
Taliban by dividing them as “good”
and “bad” Taliban has miserably
failed. By the time Trump became
the US President, the US Afghan
policy was in a state of crisis. On
the other side, other powers,
including China were busy in
enhancing their economic and
political influences in Afghanistan
taking advantage of US difficulties.
Trump’s August 2017 new
strategy for Afghanistan and South
Asia came only in this wake: This
strategy vowed to maintain an
indefinite, ie., permanent, US
occupation of Afghanistan and
further intensify the military
actions there. US dropped the
‘Mother of Bombs’ in Afghanistan
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only as part of it. The ideas to
deploy more US armed forces in
Afghanistan, enhance India’s role
in Afghanistan and the allegations
that Pakistan was not taking
decisive steps against the Taliban
only came in the wake of this new
strategy.
In their experience, the
Pakistani rulers came to see that
the place and recognition they get
from the US will depend on how
best they can serve the US politics
of domination. So while maintaining
the relations with the US, they
sought to develop relations with
China whom they consider as
dependable.
Though the US has limited its
criticism to Pakistan’s role in
Afghanistan,
all
these
developments have their impact
on the growing rift between the US
and Pakistani rulers.
America’s question is straight
and simple: ‘we paid you money
to liquidate the terrorist groups,
Afghan Taliban and Haqqani
network. But you are not doing it
effectively. Then, why should we
pay you the money?’
In reply, the Pakistan leaders
said: US is blaming Pakistan for
the collective failure ...... in
Afghanistan; huge sacrifices
made by Pakistan are being
trivialised by pushing it behind a
monetary value – and that too an
imagined one; bilateral co-operation
in fighting terrorism has served
US national security interests as
well as the larger interests of the
international community; working
towards enduring peace requires
mutual respect and trust along
with patience and persistence.
Pakistan’s opposition leader Imran
Khan has reacted more sharply
against the US. The people of
Pakistan have widely come out
expressing their protest against
the whole attitude of US
imperialists.
It is time for the Pakistani
rulers to re – examine and redefine
their relations with the US
imperialism. It is true that they
acted as a tool of US imperialists
in carrying out their strategy and
politics of imposing US domination
in South Asia. In Afghanistan, they
helped the imperialists in brutally
crushing the rights of Afghan
people. In this course, they reduced
themselves into those who work
for the oppressors on a wage. For
an oppressed nation like Pakistan
helping the imperialist invaders in
the suppression of another
oppressed nation like Afghanistan
is quite shameful. So what the
Pakistan people and world people
want from the Pakistani rulers is
not begging America to give a ‘due
recognition’ for the ‘ sacrifices’
they made in the course of serving
the US imperialists, but to
renounce and take a complete
break once for ever from the
shameful past.
It seems the Indian ruling
classes are happy with the
growing rift between the US and
Pakistan. But the kinds of relations
the Indian rulers are developing
with the US are basically no
different. The relations are unequal
and subservient. They are aimed
at serving the US in imposing their
domination over the Asia and
Pacific region. By agreeing to play
this role, they are only inviting a
worst fate for our Country and
people. The Indian people are
totally opposed to this kind of
India’s relationship with the US
and they are already in struggle
against it.
Class Struggle