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The US appears to have kept its promise if Donald Lu correctly said this to the Pakistani envoy. Assad Mazeed in Washington in one of his meetings in April this year.

This does mean that PM Khan’s visit to the Russian Federation in February third week of this year was almost a Khan’s crime. The fact is that the Russian visit, we are told, had been finalized much ahead of his trip to Moscow and that PM Khan had no inkling of the happening of the Russian attack on sovereign Ukraine.

These are matters internal to Pakistan so let’s not poke our noses.

What is more than pleasing is that along with Germany, a very powerful country in Europe and a distinguished member of the European Union, the US is also on board in sorting out the overly stretched issue of the disputed territory of Kashmir.

We recall, the first highest dignitary from the US to have visited Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, was the US Congresswoman representing Minnesota, Ms. Ilhan Omar and now the sitting Ambassador from the US visits the same place and apparently annoys Delhi’s hawks who take Washington as their private property to which it is not.

Neither Berlin nor Washington belongs to Delhi as these world capitals decide and look into the matters seriously on their own.

Delhi’s dictates have no place either in Berlin or in Washington.

In sum, all these events in the series that have happened in Berlin or Muzaffarabad give abundant clues that “all is not well” between Delhi and Washington. Knowledgeable people across the globe opine that it is the “obduracy” and the excessive “arrogance” of the Indian Minister S. Shankar that more often than not irritates the US administration officials. Minister Shankar’s son is an American citizen and his wife is Japanese thus he himself two-thirds of the US-designed security apparatus, the QUAD that includes India obviously. Shankar at times even brings into use some rough and tough words while discussing DelhiWashington bilateral talks which must have irked the US authorities.

In addition, his “double play” on matters of the Ukraine crisis, dealings with Russia and visible variations in utterances on some key international issues may have irked the US for sure.

India’s “intense love” with the Russian Federation and PM Modi’s “telephonic talks” with Ukrainian President Zelensky too must have its role in deteriorating USIndia ties.

India is riding three boats at a time.

In sum, India’s double play in political matters in which the US needs at least some moral support from India is “missing” which too could have been one of the main political reasons that may have distanced the US from India of late more so after the unceremonious exit of PM Imran Khan.

Or some sane minds in the US administration may have pointed out to President Joe Biden the disparity and the visible unequal dealings of the US in South Asia wherein the US got itself glued to the Indian regime ignoring the country, Pakistan obviously, which emboldened Delhi at the cost of Islamabad.

The fact is that since the ‘center of political gravity’ has now shifted to Asia more so to South Asia, the American’s sudden change in its India-slanted policy on South Asia bodes well in that the changed US policy takes care of Pakistan as well and needless to say, Pakistan is not only the competing, fitting and matching rival of the expansionist Indian regime but Pakistan is a nuclear country also able to keep a “perfect balance” in South Asia thus avoiding the threat of regional stability because of Kashmir dispute.

The grand departure and the deterioration in the Delhi-Washington ties apparently took a nose dive when at the end of this September 27, Ned Price, the official spokesperson of the US, bluntly said, “Well, we don’t view our relationship with Pakistan, and on the other hand we don’t view our relationship with India as in relation to one another”.

This was not all. “These are both partners of ours with different points of emphasis in each, and we look to both as partners because we do have in many cases shared values, we do have in many cases shared interests,” Ned Price said in response to a question on the Indian foreign minister’s criticism of USD 450 million sustenance package for Pakistan’s F-16 fleet.

This speaks to many things unspoken. The gist is “all is not well in New Delhi-Washington ties”. India’s foreign ministers’ Pakistan’s jealousy not only stands exposed but to a greater extent has also damaged US-India ties. This damage in the Delhi–Washington ties benefitted not only Pakistan but awarded a chance for a “balanced peace” in the South Asian region that had been excessively influenced and controlled by India’s expansionist regime under Islamophobic Indian Prime Minister Modi.

For the Road: Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the Ukrainian administration of orchestrating a terrorist attack on a key bridge that linked Russia and Crimea. Putin further said on October 9, “There is no doubt. This is an act of terrorism aimed at destroying critically important civilian infrastructure”.

“This was devised, carried out and ordered by the Ukrainian special services. Putin stressed. That’s all.