Washington’s ‘Pak policy’ hurting India: Mishra

[Naveed Yaseen]

* Doesn’t rule out possibility of China, Pakistan opening fronts against India in 5 years

Daily Times Monitor

LAHORE: The United States’ policies on Pakistan and China are harming India's security interests, the Hindustan Times quoted former Indian national security adviser Brajesh Mishra as saying on Saturday.

“While China is supporting Pakistan’s military for reasons well known, India’s friend the US, has also been pursuing policies for the past eight years which have the same adverse impact on India,” he said at the HT Leadership Summit.

Mishra called for raising the level of police infrastructure in India and pointed to China’s strident approach on Arunachal Pradesh for the past two years.

“The situation has changed in the last two years. India has fought many wars, but two fronts were never simultaneously active in the past. In the next five years, however, I will not rule out that possibility (of China and Pakistan opening fronts against India),” he warned.

Efraim Halevy, former chief of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, and Shaun Gregory, founder-director of the Pakistan Security Research Unit in Bradford, were also present at the discussion on “Lessons from Mumbai 26/11: Securing India against Terror”.

Halevy said governments would have to change their rules of the game that bury security forces under a mountain of laws and regulations.

Gregory did not see an end to Pakistan Army’s support for terrorists as long as it saw them as an instrument to achieve its policy objectives.

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