India is making concerted efforts to destabilize

India is making concerted efforts to destabilize Pakistan through covert war, encircle Pakistan by consolidating its presence in
Afghanistan, Central Asian Republics (CARs), building North-South Corridor linking Mumbai with Bandar Abbas; and connecting
Chabahar with Afghanistan-CARs.
India is working hard to isolate Pakistan by tarnishing its image and spoiling its relations with Afghanistan, Iran, Gulf States and the
US.
Kashmir is an internationally recognized dispute but India stubbornly maintains that it is its integral part well knowing that the
Kashmiris hate Indians and want freedom at all cost.
To keep Pakistan on the defensive and force it to forget Kashmir, India is playing terrorism card, Baluchistan and Sindh cards, and
water terrorism to bend Pakistan on its knees.
India’s Cold Start doctrine is aimed at offsetting Pakistan’s strategic nuclear doctrine, and executing it at a time when bulk of Pak
forces had got pinned down in designated restive areas.
Upturn of Pakistan’s sunk economy and its image, control over energy crisis and terrorism coupled with development works and fast
progressing CPEC have increased the anxieties of India. To give vent to its frustrations, it is carrying out unprovoked firing across the
LoC and working boundary in Kashmir relentlessly.
For all practical purposes, Pakistan has fallen from the grace of USA and time is not far when it will be once again be ditched and put
under harsh sanctions.
Indo-US-Israel agenda of disabling Pakistan’s nuclear program, or as a minimum curtailing its minimum deterrence capability remain
unchanged.
Afghanistan under Hamid Karzai remained aligned with India and hostile to Pakistan. Afghan Unity government under Ghani-Abdullah
is far worse.
Pak-Iran relations are frosty and practically, Iran is more close to India and Afghanistan.
Net outcome in 2017
Pakistan foreign policy makers are faced with perpetually hostile India, near hostile Afghanistan, and the changed attitude of the US.
Washington has callously whipped Pakistan under its ‘do more’ policy and is now hurling warnings. Its heavy tilt towards India is a
matter of anxiety for Pakistan.
Iran nurtures grouses on account of Pakistan’s closeness with Saudi Arabia, and for sending Gen Raheel to Riyadh to head 41-
member Sunni Muslim States Alliance.
Warmth in relationship with GCC States has diluted because of Pakistan not agreeing to send troops to Saudi Arabia to ward off
threat from Yemen. Saudi-Qatar tiff is another challenge faced by Pakistan since it cannot afford to take sides.
Pakistan has been deliberately kept politically unstable by making it play the game of ladder and snake so that it remains
economically dependent. It was pulled down whenever it grew economically strong. That is why it has been lurching from one crisis
to another in its 70 years checkered history.