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n 2015, the major foreign policy challenge Pakistan is beset with is how to halt the con rmed.
downward spiral of its regional importance. Pakistan feels it has been demeaned by the
second visit of US President Barack Obama to India in January this year. This time there Detail Reserved Seats for
was more festivity than in 2010, too soon after the Mumbai attacks of 2008. Obama was the Students of Gilgit Baltistan
chief guest at Indias Republic Day. During the visit, Obama elicited all types of signals to (MBBS & Engineering)
accentuate Indias regional-cuminternational importance, though some critics comment
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Pakistan seems to have issued a knee jerk reaction by planning to celebrate its Republic Day in Pakistan.
(or Pakistan Day) with the attendance of Chinese President Xi Jinping on March 23. One can
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argue that the visit of the Chinese president was already planned, as the visit had been
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postponed in August 2014. However, to arrange a military parade (which has not taken place
since 2008 owing to security reasons) and expect Jinping to be the chief guest on the
Republic Days (military) parade reeks of a (India-speci c) gesture in reaction. By so doing,
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Pakistan must be planning to create a counter-narrative of symbolism followed by an
announcement of the Pak-China Economic Corridor (CPEC) from the Gwadar port as a
Chinese hinterland to Xinjiang, northwestern China. ...

Pakistanis do revel in Chinese friendship but is it necessary to test and keep on testing the
contours of that friendship? It seems Pakistan is now overplaying under the spell of Dierence between Successful
wariness. Pakistans gesture is short of a mature country that ruminates much before taking and unsuccessful People.
a step. Certainly, the inauguration of the economic corridor has to be done by the Chinese
president but the attempt to create a sense of counter-symbolism should be avoided. The
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point is simple: if Obama makes another visit to India this year, will Pakistan also arrange
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another visit of the Chinese president to Pakistan?

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India is not in a mood to aront China. Sensing urgency to allay the fears of China towards constitutional issues exists nowhere.
the India-US strategic (and defence) cooperation regionally an allusion to the China
containment possibility Indias external aairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, visited China Scholorship For MBBS &
immediately after Obamas visit to India. Ms Swaraj was not only given unprecedented Engineering Students Gilgit
immediate access to the Chinese president, she was also given an a rmative nod for the Baltistan

visit of Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi to China in May this year. Reportedly, Modi
will reciprocate the visit of Jinping to the formers home town Ahmedabad in the province of FACEBOOK
Gujarat, India, in September 2014 by visiting the latters home town, Xian, in the province of
Shaanxi, China. In the context of India-China relations, this sense of bonhomie has never GSDNB
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Pakistan is also failing to realise that the geniality between India and the US is growing
whereas there have appeared tensions between Pakistan and the US. It is not important LikePage WatchVideo
whether or not India and the US are getting closer at the cost of Pakistan; it is important,
however, to ponder over the point that Pakistan has lost its regional value. It was March 2009 Bethefirstofyourfriendstolikethis
when Pakistan was publicly told by Obama that Pakistan would be hyphenated with
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Afghanistan and not with India, under the Af-Pak strategy. Pakistan failed to contest this
new relationship and, since then, Pakistan has failed to de-hyphenate itself from
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regionally, but China cannot help Pakistan get de-hyphenated from Afghanistan.
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Pakistani policymakers might have studied India and the US a lot but it seems that they have
not studied China a great deal. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the US economy was ARTICLES

about $ 18 trillion in 2014 and a signi cant share came from producing innovative
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technology. The GDP of the Chinese economy was about $ 10 trillion in 2014 but a substantial
share came from noninnovative technology.Secondly, it seems that Pakistan has not yet come BEST-POST
out of the Cold War mentality. As symptoms indicate, Pakistan still thinks that bloc politics,
even at the regional level, are possible whereas China has changed itself. China is trying to BOOKS
extend healthy and positive economic relations not only with India and the US but also with
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Thirdly, Pakistan does not realise the fact that the common concern of all three countries
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India, China and the US is terrorism connected to religion in Pakistan. They all throw the COMMUNICATION SKILLS
same one point agenda at Pakistan to ful ll. Fourth, both China and the US have pledged to
invest in India, though China is also planning to invest in Pakistan in certain areas ranging CSS-MY DREAM
from energy to infrastructure. Fifth, all three countries want to engage in trade with one
another, besides the countries of their respective regions. China is promoting India to take EDUCATION

part not only in regional economic corridors such as the Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar
(BCIM) economic corridor, famous for the Maritime Silk Road (MSR), but also in regional
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economic blocs such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and Asia-Paci c
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Economic Cooperation (APEC). In this way, Indian goods will not only bypass Pakistan
through Iran, they will also bypass Pakistan through China to reach Central Asian markets. GARDENING
Briey, Pakistan should do some introspection to circumvent being discredited and secluded
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