The US priding in its strength wanted to achieve its objectives in Afghanistan and in the region through use of overt and covert force backed by propaganda. When this strategy didn�t make progress and became too expensive to pursue, the US as an after thought belatedly stepped up efforts on the diplomatic front. To win over moderate Afghan Taliban, the US pursued policy of carrot and stick simultaneously. Repelling strategies failing to deliver has left the US policy makers utterly confused and flabbergasted.
It took USA and its strategic partners India and Israel five years to create TTP in December 2007. Purpose behind this creation was to denigrate Taliban freedom movement in Afghanistan and also discredit and emasculate Pak Army and ISI. The US kept supporting TTP for the achievement of its nefarious objectives against Pakistan till the arrest of Faisal Shehzad in Times Square case in New York and attack on CIA base in Khost in which Hakimullah Mehsud was involved. The US had otherwise got dejected with TTP for not living up to its expectations. This double game is proving costly for USA. Instead of blaming itself and correcting the wrongs, the arrogant US leadership is blaming Pakistan for the mess it created.
Egotism is coming in the way of US leadership and it is still sticking to its failed strategy. While it presses Pakistan to convert its defeat into victory in Afghanistan, it is now seeing Pakistan as a target on the premise that it has stopped pursuing the US regional interests at the cost of its own security interests. Gary Akerman stated that Pakistan is not America�s partner, not part of its team, and both are on opposite sides of the fence and both have different enemies. He added that Pakistan�s self-defined interests no more overlap with US interests.
Afghan Taliban as well as Northern Alliance leaders do not trust Hamid Karzai, former viewing him a stooge of Washington and the latter suspecting him more inclined towards Pashtuns. The US also sees him as a liability but since it has no other alternative, it is reluctantly carrying on with him. Dejected Karzai has almost given up negotiating with Taliban leaders and has jumped to the conclusion that since Islamabad controls Taliban, key to successful political settlement rests with Pakistan and none else. He is also placing hopes in Istanbul Conference hosted by Turkish President, not realizing that minus Taliban no effort can succeed.
India describes Afghanistan as its extended neighbor and has claimed that Afghanistan is in its sphere of influence. It is allergic to inclusion of Pakistan and exclusion of India in reconciliation process and is desirous of playing a key role in peace process. Using its clout, it snuggled into Istanbul Conference on 2 November despite Pakistan�s reservations.
While the US is bent upon making India the key player in Afghanistan after its departure, Pakistan is rightly averse to this thinking since it cannot afford to have hostile India in the east and Indian influenced Afghanistan in the west.
Pakistan will get stabilized only when Afghanistan becomes peaceful and India stops meddling into Pakistan�s internal affairs.
In current timeframe the US and NATO, Afghan Taliban, Afghan regime and Pakistani Taliban are suffering and are losers. India and Israel involved only in sabotage and subversion against Pakistan with the help of their intelligence agencies are gainers. The two would also stand among losers once the war ends. Afghan Taliban would eventually emerge as lone victors since time is in their favor.
Extraction of oil, gas and other mineral resources from Central Asia and Caspian Sea region and operationalization of envisaged energy corridor would materialize only when Afghanistan acting as the vital bridge gets stabilized and Balochistan gets stable and Pakistan cooperates. It may take another decade and that too when all foreign troops exit completely and all neighbors and near neighbors stop outsmarting each other. Given the deep-seated geo-economic interests of imperialist powers, this seems a pipedream
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