India and Pakistan would need to lead from the front in ridding South Asia of big power interest and influence and one could only hope that this would constitute a core interest of SAARC in the days ahead. Until then, the region would have no choice but to confront a great deal of regional instability and discord.
The recent daring and devastating attacks on Karachi International Airport and a security post outside it by Taliban-linked militants, while underscoring afresh the security dilemmas confronting Pakistan, bring also to the fore the largely negative role being played by the US in South-West Asia. From what could be gathered, the region is paying very considerably, in terms of stability and lives, for a lack of ‘forward-vision’ in US policy towards Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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