The legendary dragons in medieval fantasy epic ‘Recreation of Thrones’ rain fireplace down on the enemies at any time when their grasp Daenerys is surrounded in perilous situations. By means of such callous acts, the dragon conveys a uniform message to foes and mates alike: nobody could be allowed to carry any hurt to their mom, military or allies.
Similar to these fire-spitting legendary creatures, the dragon that lies on northeast border of Pakistan has unambiguously conveyed fairly an identical message to all of its allies, notably Islamabad. The underlined message is that the dragon wouldn’t come to your rescue throughout arduous instances; somewhat it might solely erect nice partitions and fortify its pursuits. And the Xiamen declaration, with out contemplating repercussions, has triggered extra hurt to China’s under-construction tremendous energy picture than to Pakistan’s denial of non-existence of terror secure havens and has left Beijing’s aides shell-shocked. International locations like Nepal and Sri Lanka might tilt in direction of New Delhi as notion has stemmed that Beijing is unable to defend its allies even on diplomatic boards.
The joint assertion declared “Taliban, ISIL/DAISH, Al-Qaida and its associates, together with Japanese Turkistan Islamic Motion (ETIM), Islamic Motion of Uzbekistan, the Haqqani community, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, TTP and Hizb ut-Tahrir” as terrorist teams.
“We deplore all terrorist assaults… and condemn terrorism in all its kinds and manifestations wherever dedicated and by whomsoever and stress that there could be no justification for any act of terrorism,” the assertion mentioned.
Endorsing Indian narrative through the huddle of an financial organisation’s summit highlights that Beijing has given and would all the time give precedence to its financial and strategic pursuits. Moreover, the probabilities to resolve Afghan quagmire by way of diplomatic means have drastically shrunk after framing of Afghan Taliban and Haqqani Community as terror outfits by regional giants. Obliquely, evidently Moscow and Beijing have surrendered earlier than Trump’s new Afghan coverage after registering some preliminary hue and cry.
So far as Pakistan is anxious, this declaration has severely dented its efforts of devising a collective regional response in direction of Pentagon’s augmenting stress. In opposition to the backdrop of Xiamen declaration, the visits of International Minister Khawaja Asif to China, Russia and Turkey have change into of trivial significance. Sadly, this declaration has introduced untimely dying to China-Russia-Pakistan nexus. Xiamen-like statements function wakeup name for Islamabad and pump it to revisit its ties with all international locations together with the so-called time-tested ally China. Like Beijing, Islamabad must also give precedence to its financial pursuits.
Time is ripe that strategists in Islamabad ought to craft relations with different international locations on foundation of mutual geopolitical and financial pursuits as a substitute of devising them on pretext of widespread enmity with particular nation as Pakistan and China had been conspicuously drawn towards every since Sino-India 1962 conflict. A whole reorientation in state coverage is required with an sincere reckoning of the previous. It might price Pakistan closely in brief run however will surely assist her in the long term.
