US is concerned more with Haqqani and did a formality declaring Pakistan a safe heaven for terrorists.So still it's a important sign of policy shift.
This business of declaration of terrorists has only cosmetic value, for which they are extracting a tangible price from us. The US and their proxy the UN, have declared Hafiz Saeed as a terrorist with 10M bounty, what has changed after that?
We bought billions worth of weapons from the US, in return they threw peanuts at us by acknowledging that a person who is obviously a terrorist, is also seen as a terrorist by the US, wow, badi meherbani hui.
We bought their nuclear reactors, drones, C5 transport planes, and in exchange they are doing this Haqqani drama. They are throwing scraps at us in exchange for the billions we give them, on top of that, the groups they are banning are the ones who are involved in hitting American interests in Afghanistan. Indians just want excuses to vindicate American foreign policy. They are setting the agenda, and we are towing their line and making it look like it is pro-India policy. Just a year or two ago, the same US gave Harpoon anti-ship missiles to Pakistan just a week after India inducted INS Talwar class ship, or tested Barak8 or something, I forgot the exact event but we had launched something new and the US gave Harpoon and Sparrow to Pakistan.
They put a squeeze on our Pharma companies based on a false patent law and we had to go begging to them, even though our generic medicines did not violate IP law. This is America.
They put a squeeze on Indian professionals migrating to the US, and Sushma aunty had to remind them of the 'positive contributions made by Indians to the US economy', still they went ahead with their H1B curbs. This is America.
They said the Indian companies must hire local Americans, and immediately everyone from Infosys to TCs fired 800k employees in India and hired 10k employees in the US. This is America.
We have no power over them. All we have is hot air. We only keep thinking we are significant, but no one will change their foreign policy to suit India unless India stands up for itself. Everyone on this forum was enraged when our two soldiers were beheaded, now suddenly everyone is singing laurels of US foreign policy. Are we forgetting that the GPS used by the terrorists to sneak into India was also made in America. Has that made the US stop sending military aid to Pakistan?
They do whatever is in their interest. They are a world power, and India is an aspiring world power. Those two don't mix together. No world power will willingly craft its foreign policy to allow a challenger to grow, but still, Indians keep hoping against hope that the US will stand up for India. lolwa. Kis khushi me, bhai?
Haqqani network is responsible for the deaths of 800 American soldiers in Afghanistan, and ISI is responsible for the deaths of 80,000 Indians since the 'war of a thousand cuts' was started. The US has decided to go after Haqqani to avenge their 800, while still being in bed with the ISI who has killed 80k Indians. Where's the sense of proportion?
Aacck thoo!
