NEW DELHI – In its bid to continue proxy war against Pakistan, India gave a spin to the policy of US President Trump and advocated presence of troops in Afghanistan.
India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Syed Akbaruddin didn’t directly say Trump is surrendering to the Taliban to win re-election, but he strongly implied such narrative during a speech before the Security Council on Wednesday.
“We see that some may be driven by a sense of an urgency with timelines which are, perhaps, not intrinsic to the needs of the Afghan people…As the way forward is chalked out, we cannot ignore that groups enjoying support and safe havens carry out violent and terrorist activities from across borders. They cannot be allowed to negotiate from a place of advantage,” Akbaruddin said.
The statement was well noted by political analyst Andrew Korybko, who, in his piece contended that the first part of the statement referred to Trump’s domestic political considerations, the most important of which is re-election.
The author stated that the second part of the statement says the group is ‘negotiating from a place of advantage’ and if co-joined, India tried to imply that this is an American strategic surrender for domestic political reasons, though such is not the case in his viewpoint.
Korybko sensed weaponized narrative being spun by New Delhi ‘in its desperate bid to have the Pentagon keep its troops in Afghanistan for as long as possible’.
The commentator expressed that India was desirous of keeping the troops on ground as it gave New Delhi strategic depth in Afghanistan to wage war against Pakistan, especially the Hybrid War on CPEC.
The Moscow-based analyst contended that if US troops leave Afghanistan, India would be left high and dry to face difficulty in launching proxy war against Pakistan.
“India’s UN Representative can try to spin this as much as he wants, but that doesn’t change the fact that the US is ‘rebalancing’ its relations with India and now has the upper hand in all respects,” Korybko stated in his piece.
