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To: ratan lal who wrote (11434)	1/18/2001 11:14:44 AM
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Strength respects strength - Abdul Kalam -- Pakistan is a bit player in the world politics ever since its birth. It has no control over its destiny. It is a marionette in the hands of bigger players. Once China's military might is challenged by India's ability to strike deep into its territory, China has no choice but to become a reluctant friend of India. According to Abdul Kalam, strength respects strength. Such is the saying of a home-grown Indian genius. That means a proportionate loss of friendship of China for pakistan. When commercial interests increase between India and China in Dollar value, Pakistan will be marginalized. Pakistan should strive hard to become the friend of India and stop all this nonsense about kashmir. India will sit pretty and pakistan has to do all the wooing and cooing. Don't expect anything from the Bush administration. -JPR dawn.com What does one make of all these developments? Cumulatively they do not augur well for Pakistan's foreign policy and security. True, Beijing still remains a good friend of Pakistan. But it would be unwise to test this friendship by demanding Chinese support for some of the adventurist moves being mounted from Pakistani soil Li Peng very categorically spoke of joining hands with India to fight terrorism in the region. With their border dispute well on way to a solution and their trade ties growing rapidly, India and China can be expected to coordinate their South Asian policies which have begun to converge to quite an extent. . This will deny Pakistan the countervailing support it needs vis-a-vis New Delhi. is not surprising that Pakistan is being marginalized in this situation. Its failure to enter Shanghai-5 which comprises China as well as three Central Asian Republics apart from Russia - countries with which Islamabad has been seeking to engage itself - should come as a clear pointer to our shrinking standing in the region. Even on Kashmir, the world sympathy could swing in favour of India which can now claim with some credibility that the problem is largely the result of "cross-border terrorism" and

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