Prime Minister has announced a three year credit line worth $5 billion, as a follow of earlier credit line of similar amount covering a period of five years. It has been termed as a "Great Game of Africa" and its main players are India, China and USA. It is significantly different from south Asia game currently being played between these three.
But the play ground and equipments are significantly different from the Af-Pak, where both Afghanistan and Pakistan are the casualty of the game, and India has bore the burnt of this game of an extremely long and tiring period. These three countries have lost many lives because of the vested interested of America and China, who kept instigating Pakistan, which foolishly followed their instruction.
Pakistan sought strategic depth in Afghanistan, as it doesn't wanted an India friendly government in its neighbour and it was happy with Taliban in the region which it supported vehemently till very recently. It never heeded to a a simple age old fact that if neighbours house is on fire, even you are in danger. A radicalised and unstable Afghanistan where Pakistan had a role to play is now cursing its future too.
To save their chairs, Pakistani politicians kept singing Kashmir tune kept and supporting terrorism in Kashmir, which worked two ways, on one hand it made India a more active, secure, powerful, resolute, aware and united country where as it had only weakened Pakistan in all aspects of life.
Now, it has no control over its own airspace or its on borders. Its sovereignty is being raped every day by several US drones in the sky and by US commandos and various terrorists on land. Pakistan as a nation has lost its confidence and its way. Its people are suffering from chronic poverty, power cuts and inflation, where as government depends on foreign aid to save itself from getting bankrupt. Its stature and credibility as a nation is at all time low due to which even during its worst floods countries didn't donated as much as they should have.
As President Obama said, Pakistan is obsessed with India and it sees everything from India angle only. It has stepped up its nuke programme, it has stepped up its defence spending. In Pakistan Palestine and Kashmir are the main issue whilst they don't care about their own backyard. Palestine and Kashmir are not going to improve the quality of life of an ordinary Pakistani citizen, who needs good education, uninterrupted power supply, drinking water, roads and parks.
But the Pakistani politicians and media has filled them with so much of hate and anger on these two issues that people cant even think about these basic amenities and lack of these only fuels anger. Passion for cricket is something which used to unite the nation, but an attack on visiting team had even taken away that from them, but instead of improving their own deeds, they blamed India for it, which has only increased animosity between the people of these two countries, who otherwise are friendly to each other.
Coming back to African Game, it is being played using economy and regional development as a tool, instead of using guns and terror and non development as a weapon as is being used in Asia. Pakistan needs to learn something from these African nations who other wise are not very friendly to each other and do have their own differences but they are united and committed for the development of the region and do not intersect each other on these issues. It needs to learn from its past that tall claims doesn't helps in real world, USA used them and they are in trouble because of that "strategic depth" and now they are about to commit same blunder again by submitting themselves to the china. No matter what they claim, but once their goals are fulfilled they will leave Pakistan on its own.
Pakistan needs to understand that China won't support it against India in any direct action because China itself is dealing with too many problems which include Taiwan, Tibet and sustaining communist rule in the country. India and Pakistan have more in common than China and Pakistan have, we two can be two great coexisting countries supporting each other. If India can donate billions to the world, it certainly can help Pakistan during its tough times and better relations with India will result in rapid development of Pakistan.
All Pakistan needs is to mend its fences with its neighbour
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