Wednesday, November 20, 2013

A newly developed political and diplomatic chess game in the Middle-East is getting very interesting.  Rift between the USA and Saudi Arabia over Syria and Iran issue, problem between Israel and Iran but supported by Saudi Arabia against the Iranian nuke policy as well as Saudi Arabia's overt tilt of taking its shopping cart for nuke and military equipment to Europe, China, Russia, India and Pakistan seems to have taken a 180 degree turn in the foreign and diplomatic posture of Saudi Arabia.  Of course, every country has the right to review its foreign policy from time to time, but this newly built military relationship between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan needs a very close probe in light of what it can entail in the long run.  In order to create a counter-weight against Iran, Saudi Arabia has evinced its interest to seek Pakistan's help to create a special military force of about 50,000 die-hard soldiers and also has an open order of buying nukes from the warehouse of Pakistan.  This is a clear sign of proliferation of nuke technology and availability of destructive weapon in the Middle-East.  This trade could be worth multi-billion dollars which means Pakistan will have access to more money to produce more nukes which in turn means more headache for India.  This relationship will also make the Pakistani Military/ISI nexus more powerful which eventually means a more fragile and helpless civilian government in Islamabad.  Since India has good relations with both Iran and Saudi Arabia, it can't do much to avoid this new nexus between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.  What it can do though is to keep its own guards up and be vigilant of the impending aftermath of this relationship.  INDIA NEEDS TO BE PROACTIVE.

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