Modi’s rise seems to coincide with Pakistan’s change of Afghanistan strategy: 'Sleepwalking to Surrender'
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Modi’s rise seems to coincide with Pakistan’s change of Afghanistan strategy: 'Sleepwalking to Surrender'

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Editor’s note: In this extract from the book Sleepwalking to Surrender author Khaled Ahmed attempts to trace the impact of Narendra Modi’s rise to power, in Pakistan’s political arena and its handling of the question of terrorism. In his latest comment, ex-World Bank Pakistani economist Shahid Javed Burki says: ‘The past process was “India-centric” in the sense that Pakistan tried, sometimes with desperation, to balance India’s growing military might. Prime Minister Sharif can hit it off with Prime Minister Modi but will be hampered by elements that force the world to call Pakistan a failed state by reason of lost ‘internal sovereignty’. Next day, 21 May, the Pakistan air force bombed North Waziristan, killing seventy-one men, including, according to Inter-Services Public Relations, Taliban commanders and ‘foreign militants’. More reliably, Pakistan’s doyen of commentators on the Taliban, RahimullahYusufzai, reported in the News of 28 May 2014: ‘Around 12 groups of foreign militants are listed, the prominent ones being the al-Qaeda led by late Osama bin Laden’s successor Dr Ayman-al-Zawahiri, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the Islamic Jihad Union which is a breakaway faction of the IMU, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement made up of the separatist Chinese Uighur Muslims and headed by Abdullah Mansour, the mainstream Afghan Taliban movement and the powerful Haqqani Network affiliated with it.’ Modi’s rise seems to coincide with Pakistan’s change of Afghanistan strategy, namely, its reliance on the instrumentality of the ‘good’ Taliban to defeat India in Afghanistan.

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