An affair in Karachi
A love story of China and Pakistan, where India’s NSG membership hangs in the balance
A tense session was seen at Seoul as the Nuclear Suppliers Group sat down to build consensus as to whether India should be granted entry into the very group that was formed because of it.
Starting from a small group of country as an objection to Indira Gandhi’s Pokharan-1 test in 1974, the NSG has now evolved into one of this cool guy groups, the type that are there in high schools, except that this group holds control to nuclear materials and works with the aim of preventing spread out of nuclear weapons.
India now wants membership to this group to have a better access to Nuclear materials for its energy goals. It, however, carries the image of conducting 2 nuclear tests and the fact that it did not sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.
That’s where China and Pakistan come along. Pakistan has had a long history of affairs with countries who could help it against India. The love story between Pakistan and America during the cold war still has its after effects where America, in spite of knowing where its aid money goes to is still helping them out.
China on the other hand has different motives. The big bully of Asia always wanted to maintain dominance in its region. The only country with the capacity to take it head on is India. Fearing that, China’s status on Facebook is “in a complicated relationship with Pakistan” Pakistani regime, on the other hand who is so consumed in its hatred for India and willing to go to any level now only has China as its support as it stands isolated in a brave new world.
This love story goes beyond just mutual help, as China has heavily invested in the country and supplied it with arms and ammunition in its fight against India. Just like in a typical hindi movie, the girl who has a rich and powerful father, and the guy do anything possible to stop the girls father of his plans which involves huge deals. So it as comes no surprise that the country wearing the pants in this relationship is also the one trying to stonewall India’s bid.
What will happen in the NSG case is something that might comedown to a cliffhanger, but one thing is for sure, an acceptance now would mean India would move farther and faster than it has ever gone before.
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