Kabul, Afghanistan - with Afghan ongoing discussions on the future participation of the United States in the country and the prospect of military bases in the long term, the Government of Pakistan has urged the Afghanistan to distance itself from the West and to bind its future more closely to China and PakistanAccording to Afghans and Americans who are familiar with a meeting between the leaders of the Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In a point of reference on April 16 meeting here in Kabul, where the characters more powerful in the Government of Pakistan has stolen in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan believes that Afghanistan must turn towards the Chinaa power in ancestry, rather than closely cut to the United States.
"There was a mention of China at the meeting, China as a country, as an economic power emerging and that, perhaps, that we should reach a new global economic power," said an official Afghan well informed about the meeting. "And there was the suggestion that the Afghanistan and Pakistan should strengthen relations".
"You could not say exactly what they meant, if China could possibly be an alternative to the United States, but they said it could help the two countries," the official said, referring to Pakistan and Afghanistan. The official asked not be named because of the delicacy of the subject, that he was not authorized to speak publicly.
The focus on China of meaning because it is a great power which would be acceptable to the Afghanistan as an ally in ways that the Russia never could be due to its history as an occupier hated of the Afghanistan in the 1980s. And, from the point of view of Pakistan, China provides a counterweight to the India, its enemies.
The effort to draw the Afghanistan to the United States and to China was for the first time in the Wall Street Journal, and it was one of several proposals flottées by Pakistan at the meeting, according to the Afghan media. In Afghanistan, a number of supposed other Pakistan proposals are are more opinion - even if it is not clear that they have been described with precision or proposed to all the.
All leaks, however, reflect the concerns of the various Afghan factions on the leadership of the Afghanistan policy. A list of so-called leak of proposals of Pakistan said that the Pakistanis had requested that the members of the Haqqani network, a Taliban ally based in Pakistan, receive a share of the power of the Government. Relatives of the Afghan Government denied categorically that Pakistan asked something like that. "It is ridiculous," said a government official.
Another apparently kinder proposal was again an offer of Pakistan to train the Afghan national army, said an official us well informed on the talks, but who also wanted not quoted by name because of the delicacy of the subject.
On Tuesday, the Pakistani Government issued a statement saying it rejected "unfounded assertions" made in the article in the Wall Street Journal and that "he fully supported a process led by Afghan, belonging to the Afghan peace and reconciliation.""," and "" the key role of the United States to promote the stabilitépaix and harmony in Afghanistan.""
The statement noted that a trilateral meeting of the Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United States was to be held in the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad, at the beginning of next month, to have "strategic consistency and clarity."
Hindsight, manoeuvre seems reminiscent of the days of great game of the 19th century when the great powers sought to claim and to influence the Afghanistan. Then, the Russia and England were struggling for power. Today, there are many more geopolitical actors: United States, China, Iran, Russia, India and especially Pakistan, with which the Afghanistan has close ties and deep resentments.
In Pakistan, more than any other country, at the same influence on the future of the Afghanistan because so much support to the insurgency in Afghanistan emanates from the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, is a landlocked country and will always depend on Pakistan for supplies. If the Government of Pakistan moved decisive stop activity of the insurgents, the war in Afghanistan would be greatly diminished.
For the moment, the Afghan Government is weighing requests Pakistan, according to people close to the Government and its opponents. Mr. Abdullah Abdullah, a one-time presidential opponent of President Hamid Karzai, who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Afghanistan and was allied with the United States, said that he saw this as a time when Afghanistan was confronted with a choice on which way to go. He said that he had knowledge of what was discussed at the meeting and that the Pakistani had brought a document with them described their thinking.
"They said that the objectives of the United States are confusing and uncertain, the US force is not reliable, and their power is not a reliable power", said Mr. Abdullah.
That perspective is strongly influenced by the more negative vision of Pakistan to the United States, said Mr. Abdullah - a point echoed by other officials familiar with the meeting.
"One of the schools of thought in the Pakistani establishment is that the US presence in Afghanistan is not for the stabilization of the Afghanistan, but that it is seized of nuclear assets of Pakistan in good and due time,"stated Mr. Abdullah."."
However, the crucial question for the Afghanistan is that it would come out closer ties with Pakistan and the distance over the United States, he said. "They have failed to recognize the Afghanistan as a sovereign country," he said, referring to the representatives of the Government of Pakistan. "They still regard as their own backyard."
Is "there not anything there for the Afghanistan", he added. "He does not speak the shrines of the Taliban in Pakistan, it is as giving Pakistan a protectorate role vis à vis Afghanistan,"he says. ".
Relatives of the talks, said Mr. Karzai planned to Pakistan carefully points, but had not yet committed to most of them and regarded them with caution because of the long history of Pakistan to destabilize the Afghanistan with its support for the Taliban.
"The discussions were a good start." There are many issues to be discussed, "said an official close to the talks. "Obviously it's a long way to go because in terms of our past experience with Pakistan, we would need to see serious, pragmatic measures.
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