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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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