Pakistan expresses alarm over ever-expanding US-India strategic partnership
In the run-up to today’s meeting between Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama, New Delhi and Washington
have taken significant steps to enhance their burgeoning
military-security ties. In doing so, the Obama administration has
ignored repeated warnings from Pakistan that the US’s strategic embrace
of India has upset the “balance of terror” between South Asia’s
nuclear-armed states.
The US and India inaugurated a new
“Strategic and Commercial Dialogue” at a meeting in Washington last
Wednesday between US Secretary of State John Kerry, Commerce Secretary
Penny Pritzker and India’s External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj,
plus Commerce and Industry Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman.
