It's unfortunate that Pakistan is going through a low ebb. It's struggling to contain terrorism that is striking at will, besides struggling to "convince" the world that she is doing enough to contain it in the first place! The fact that Pakistan nurtured and used them as a tool to achieve their strategic objectives of gaining and retaining "strategic depth" in Afghanistan and bleed India besides others isn't helping matters either.
Prima facie it appears that having pushed to the wall it's options are limited, but after a closer view things begin to change. The US led forces in Afghanistan is itself struggling to justify their presence to their "management" on the face of mounting casualty, cost and plain failure in reaching their stated objectives even after investing so much capital - human or otherwise, they too are seeking a face saving exit from the region. In these circumstances Pakistan has offered to facilitate the "soft" exit, although it has enraged the jehadis but she has traded it off for the continued strategic alliance and the vital "aid" from US.
As far as India is concerned, it not only needs to keep a close watch on the developments inside Pakistan but also on the likely diplomatic offensive assisted by Pakistan's renewed alliance with the US.
Prima facie it appears that having pushed to the wall it's options are limited, but after a closer view things begin to change. The US led forces in Afghanistan is itself struggling to justify their presence to their "management" on the face of mounting casualty, cost and plain failure in reaching their stated objectives even after investing so much capital - human or otherwise, they too are seeking a face saving exit from the region. In these circumstances Pakistan has offered to facilitate the "soft" exit, although it has enraged the jehadis but she has traded it off for the continued strategic alliance and the vital "aid" from US.
As far as India is concerned, it not only needs to keep a close watch on the developments inside Pakistan but also on the likely diplomatic offensive assisted by Pakistan's renewed alliance with the US.
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