US and India must come closer

Both US and India can be natural allies as the former is champion of democracy and
the latter is the largest democracy of the world. The US accords the highest priority to
India in the fast changing scenario in Asia. As India and China are emerging fast as
global economic powers, the sole super power can not ignore the region. Indian Prime
minster Dr. Manmohan Singh will be the first state guest of Obama Administration when
he visits the US in November. The several bilateral and multilateral pacts signed
between Indian External Affairs Minister S M Krishna and the visiting US secretary of
State Hillary Clinton reflects the expansion of relations between the two countries.The civil nuclear deal has brought the two countries closer. With the successful visit of
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to India, it has been made clear before the world
that in the changing world scenario and growing problems of different nature, it is
required on the emerging power like India to come forward with the US in solving them.
The crux of Hillary Clinton’s statement is that the US wants India to participate
prominently in solving the global issue and become an important global player. It is her
husband and former US president Bill Clinton is credited with starting the initiative to
develop close relation and strategic partnership with India. After Bill Clinton his
successor former president George Bush also carried forward the initiative and offered
India to strike nuclear deal with the US. He operationalised the deal in his own tenure.
Now President Barrack Hussain Obama will honour the deal in letter and spirit as his
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made clear in her talks with Indian leadrship
during her visit. She has also made it clear that US will continue to supply nuclear
technology and will not deny Enrichment Reprocessing Nuclear Technology(ENR).
She has removed all confusion over the issue. The confusion over the issue developed
after G-8 Summit in which the supply of nuclear technology and Enrichment
Reprocessin Technology was linked to the signature to NPT and CTBT, which India
has already described as discriminatory. As India has bluntly denied any emmission cut proposal from the developed countries,
Hillary Clinton appeared considerate after hearing its viewpoints from Environment
Minister Jairam Ramesh. On the issue of climate also, she appeared to be conciliatory
rather than trying to build pressure on India. Hillary Clinton also admitted that Pakistan is running syndicate of terrorism and is busy
in dealing with Taliban in its own country. She stressed the point of bringing those who
are involved in 26/11 attacks in Mumbai to justice. She pressurised Pakistan to bring all
those who are involved in Mumbai attacks . But one thing that she left mentioning is
about the Pak-based terrorist outfits- Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad
besides others - who are chiefly involved in creating mayhem in Jammu and Kashmir
and elsewhere in India. Though the US Secretary of State reiterated the ponit of
bringing the Pak-based culprits of the Mumbai attacks to books, she did not appear so
open in building up pressure on Pakistan to act against terrorism emanating from its
soil. It is a open case of India that the quantity of loss suffered due to Pak-sponsored
terrorism in terms of lives and property is incalculable . The terrorism pinches India in
the same way as it pinched to US in 9/11 attacks. How did it react? It invaded
Afghanistan unilaterally because the mastermind of 9/11suspected to be in that
country. The US to be fair in dealing with the issue of terrorism must provide full back
up to India to crush this scourage at the point from where it emanates. On the whole it
was a very successful visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to India, which has
also strengthened the relation between the two countries and removed the confusion
between the two. The US must understand the problem of terrorism that India has been
facing for the last two decades because of its sponsorship from across the border.