Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Nuclear Deal - Part 2

No Hollywood movie is complete without a sequel. True to the spirit of its Hollywood, US has unleashed the second part of the nuclear deal with India. It was so very predictable that the deal was not an end in itself. It was a means to achieve some other ends.

It all started with the G-8 summit, where the US raised its tone and tenor to prohibit non-NPT nations from being supplied nuclear technology. This ran sharply against the things agreed upon in the Nuclear deal, or at least what Indian Government made the people believe about the deal.

Then came the dialogue between the Pakistani and Indian PM at Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt. That, by signing the nuclear deal, India would be made subservient to the US interests, was a foregone conclusion but little did we know that the Indian PM will stoop so low, so soon. The pressure from the western forces, to come up with a joint declaration was so very visible. Terrorism of its worst kind has been unleashed upon India and it is no secret as to where its master-minds are located. Yet, the composite dialogue between India and Pakistan is to be decoupled from terrorism. So may we ask, what are all the future composite dialogues going to discuss about? Kashmir Issue and weather. And as a filler, they will discuss Balochistan terrorism.

Not surprisingly, after the joint declaration, US reassured India that the G-8 statement had no bearing upon the 123-agreement.

If the faux pas at Sharm-El-Sheikh was not enough, close on the heels came the End User Monitoring Agreement (EUMA) with USA. Thanks to this agreement, the Phirangs will be seen snooping at our defense locations smelling/spying for all the confidential information that any sovereign nation should not be sharing with another nation.

All of this makes it so very obvious that the 123-agreement was just a sales pitch to sell to Indian masses, something that runs contrary to its strategic interests. This was Part-1. The second part starts now. The US will exert all kind of pressures on India. I suspect I know the climax of this part. Very soon the Indian government will sign the CTBT and the NPT, thereby putting to an end, whatever remained of India's strategic nuclear interest.

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