A mortar-for-bullet game

February 05, 2015 09:09

The conclusion of a number of significant agreements by India and the United States during US President Barack Obama's recent visit to New Delhi has attracted a great deal of adverse commentary from Islamabad.

PM Nawaz Sharif's Foreign Affairs pointsman Sartaj Aziz has voiced serious concerns about the regional "strategic imbalance" arising out of the Indo-US deals at a time when Indo-Pak relations have reached a new low due to ceasefire violations along the LoC.

Pakistan, according to him, "is examining the imbalance and the possible ways and means for redressing it." Strategic assessments such as these, made in the wake of the recent spate of violence along the border, could potentially lead to a renewed standoff between the South Asian adversaries. There is therefore an urgent need to put in place mechanisms to get the relationship back on track.

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