China’s defense minister accused the United States on Sunday of trying to “hijack” the support of countries in the Asia-Pacific region to turn them against Beijing, saying Washington is seeking to advance its own interests “under the guise of multilateralism.” “No country should impose its will on others or bully others under the guise of multilateralism,” he said. “The strategy is an attempt to build an exclusive small group in the name of a free and open Indo-Pacific to hijack countries in our region and target one specific country — it is a strategy to create conflict and confrontation to contain and encircle others.”
During December 2011 a senior Pakistani military officer said a NATO air strike killing 24 Pakistani troops on the Afghan border last month was pre-planned and warned of more attacks, comments likely to fuel tension with the United States. “We can expect more attacks from our supposed allies,” the Express Tribune quoted Nadeem as saying at the senate briefing.
Pakistan said the attack was unprovoked, with officials calling it an act of blatant aggression — an accusation the United States has rejected. What happens when one finds the army of Pakistan fully awake to the occasion, simple, it starts to defame the powerful institutions so that the great image they have is dented. It takes no great wisdom to know that the attempts to defame the army through their mouthpieces in Pakistan, like its politicians and media houses was an easy task for the US. As well as for India and Israel too.
The recent admission of John Bolton — a conservative Republican diplomat and former US National Security Advisor — about the US being directly involved in the engineering of regime change across Latin America and the Middle East has served as the proverbial missing link to PTI’s narrative. After all, if Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq have been admitted targets of the US’s government-overthrowing and leader-ousting schemes, the notion is not far-fetched that a similar play was made in Pakistan as well. Power-hungry politicians in cahoots with other influential actors were ready to carry out the deed on their master’s behalf. Their lust for power has led Pakistan to such an unstable state that the country is on the brink of default, leading analysts to wonder if Pakistan is headed towards Sri Lanka’s present.
