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It's not that the West's fear of USSR's expansion into the southern seas alone that made it split India by eulogising Jinnah and sacrificing Edwina/Mountbatten duo; parallel to the Hindu phobia in the Western academia brought about by India's past glory, it feared an unwanted global competition from a united Hindu India too. Almost as a double whammy, while the partition weakened that India as a future power, the raising of sentiments of hostility even brought about two military hardware buyers! For Pakistan clearly yes but even for the US, Pakistan has to remain intact and strong, remain hostile to India and has to keep on buying arms. It knows all, but lets things happen. In this context, Hilary's 'You can't have two types of snakes in your back yard' and Obama's 'seek urgent action against the Mumbai attackers' are the showing teeth. In fact, despite the deaths of its own citizens in the Mumbai attack it says 'We will not let down the integrity of Pakistan' - as biting teeth. And of course for the 'oldest democracy' in the world, Pak's integrity is much more important in the bite than the rapes and deaths of many in Baluchistan. Of course the US voters want peace, but with the elected rulers merging with the elite in the elite/public split capitalist country, it's the elite who decide; and Hillary or Trump's victory matters less. So, for Trump, Pak could easily be what Guantanamo was for Obama. Therefore, unlike its inclusion in Kuwait's banned list, the exclusion of Pakistanis in the banned list of the fundamentalist disliking Trump comes with an arrow airing just that. -------------------

Struggle in Baluchistan