Holbrooke, Mullen meet Narayanan

Reuters Tags : india, indo us relations, US envoy, Richard Holbrooke, regional strategy, afghanistan, pakistan, af-pak strategy Posted: Wednesday, Apr 08, 2009 at 1228 hrs New Delhi:

Holbrooke's trip is his first since Obama announced plans to help Pak with more military and non-military aid.

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US special envoy Richard Holbrooke on Wednesday met National Security Adviser M K Narayanan and is understood to have discussed how India could help Washington's strategy aimed at ending terror threats emanating from Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Holbrooke, the special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was accompanied by Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen.

Holbrooke is also meeting Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon.

Holbrooke is believed to have discussed ways in which New Delhi could cooperate in US efforts to "defeat" terrorism originating from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The two top US officials arrived here late last night after a visit to Pakistan, where Holbrooke underlines that economic and military aid provided by the US would be linked to Islamabad's concrete support to war against Al-Qaida.

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The US has sought to link its strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan for resumption of Indo-Pak dialogue. Washington argues that resumption of the dialogue would ease pressure on Islamabad and allow it to help America in the war in Afghanistan.

India maintains that the US needs to focus on targeting terror bases in Pakistan if the scourge is to be rooted out.

It also believes that Islamabad is lacking capability or will to target terror bases in Pakistan and hence the international needs to act collectively and assertively.

Unease in Indo-US relations

US envoy Richard Holbrooke will meet Indian officials on Wednesday amid concern in New Delhi that Washington's new regional strategy for Afghanistan is pandering to its old foe Pakistan.

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styameva jayateBy: Santhosh varkala | 14-May-2009 Reply | Forward when terrorist attacked US WTC america came to afganistan. what we did same terrorist attacked indian parliament and mumbai? why we have to raise every year spending money to buy more weapons. to please anyone in the world? we have to use that to eliminate terrorist camp in PoK.

INDIA-PAK-US relation is it becoming a Mockery!!!!!By: aditya ranjan misra | 09-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward Its in India's interest that it should help US led war against PAK and AFGHANISTAN.But the pre condition is that US should stop giving aids to PAK that in otherways used to create tention over India and the rest of the world. And it should not mediate over IND-PAK discussion over kashmir.US should pressurise PAK to dismantle the terrorist org over PAK and carry the 26/11 probe to the next level in a fruitful manner.

Get real tough with the PakisBy: Hero Vaz | 08-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward The US should take out the Pakis' nuclear weapons and the rest will fall in place, automatically. If Iraq's nuclear weapons were a threat, Pak's nuclear weapons are as much or more of a threat to world peace. There is no point in involving India in cleaning up the mess the US have created. The US have the capacity to handle things on their own but lack the will. The war on the Taliban, the miltants and the terrorists should be total. Half measures will get the US nowhere.

Enemies of Congress are mates of hindusBy: DILIP?FRANCE | 08-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward I.E.must collectively act with responsibility, it can not give platform to some bad and ugly hooligans,to psread their hatred tiarde,venomenous and poisionous anti hindu statements.Pink chaddis will not be tolerated, who make disparaging and denigrsating statement, to pit hindus against hindus and play the old game of divide and subjugate hindus. Terrorists are being empowered by the anti national Congress party, who has for over 60 years had an incessant appesement policies.Aslong as these anti hindu cabal stays in power, India will be suject to more Taliban attacks. If India stands to become an Economic power house, as it has the potential and forecast to be by 2025,Indian needs a cgange from the gerriatric grandees and headless chickens.WE deserve better goverment,less corruption, higher economic growth,better infrastructure and more jobs. Grandstanding rhetorics is delusiuonal, the reality is differnt.

Holbrooke's visitBy: Anil Kotwal | 08-Apr-2009 Reply | Forward The bottomline is that India will have to fight it's own battles and that the US will see only as it's own interests as supreme.

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