Abstract
9/11 inflicted a challenge to the hegemonic invulnerability of the
superpower and a vital opportunity for India to be a great beneficiary of the
situation. The caucus of Indian-Americans at Capitol Hill lobbied the US
Congressional members and caused the demise of NPT for India specific to make
India a de-jure nuclear state without fulfilling the obligations. US perception
reconstructed to be strategically depended on India’s weaker shoulders to contain
the peer hegemon China and maximize her Asiatic strategic interest on the
forefront strategic location of India.To make powerful the attenuated for
balancing objectives the bonanza of power increments was infused in nuclear and
military the strategic veins of the partner. India wants to encircle Pakistan and US
want to snub China and the strategic harmony of interest was amalgamated in US
political corridors with successive diplomacy. To settle down the India’s role in
Afghanistan was not covert business but the harmony of interest. War on terror
was an instrumental bargaining chip that India used against Pakistan and US
engineered against specific individuals and communities. The harmony of interest
amidst the Indo-US strategies could be meted out only by creating the trustdeficits betwixt the US and its Cold-War ally which India availed.
Ghulam Fareed, Umbreen Javaid. (2018) US Strategy in Afghanistan: Unprecedented Closeness with India and Trust Deficits with Pakistan, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 55, Issue 2.
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