Post BRICS, Pakistan will have to crack down on terror to make new friends, retain old ones

Pakistan increasingly has realised that the world has started to see India's view point.

Pakistan is finding itself increasingly isolated. First Donald Trump and now China. Both countries have identified and recognised that Pakistan is a state that harbours terror groups and it is time that it cracked down.

The question is will Pakistan change its policy or will it hunt for new allies. The democratically elected government in Pakistan wants to move towards a new foreign policy, but the military and the ISI feel that changing policy is not the way to go and the better decision would be to hunt for new allies.

The statement Senator Mohammad Mohsin Khan Laghari in the Pakistan senate said it all. On Donald Trump's warning, he said there was no need to be shocked. We have seen America over the years. It is not as though we were brothers and suddenly today we are not. We had seen this coming. Several trillion dollars have been spent in Afghanistan, but they failed. They need someone to blame and hence they are blaming Pakistan, he said.

Pakistan increasingly has realised that the world has started to see India's view point.

More importantly the US has also seen India's view point on Kashmir. The statements by the US and now China will increasingly frustrate and isolate Pakistan which has been gathering support for its fight on the right to Kashmir. This momentum too has hit a road block after Trump termed the Kashmir struggle as terrorism.

The question now who will be Pakistan's allies. The generals are trying to cozy up to Russia. China on the other hand is a friend, but with the new BRICS declaration that also included Russia, Pakistan will have to do more on the terror front. It will have to crack down on the likes of the Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Tayiba in order to make new friends and retain old ones.

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