Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pose with the winning Afghan cricket team following a friendly match between Pakistan and Afghanistan's juni...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center right, talks with Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif while they inspect a guard of honor in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai shakes hands with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during a joint press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attend an agreement signing ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan. Afghanistan's president urged neighborin...
Afghans chanting "death to Pakistan" burn a Pakistani flag during a demonstration in Asad Abad, Kunar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmay Rasoul, left, poses for photographers with his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar prior to their meeting at the Foreign Office in Islamabad, Pak...
Afghans march during an anti Pakistan demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hundreds of Afghans demonstrated against mortar firing from Pakistan site in to Afghan territories.
Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul shakes hand with his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar before start of the Asia Ministerial Conference at the foreign ministry in Kabul...
A man takes nap on one of oil tankers used to transport NATO fuel supplies to neighboring Afghanistan, in Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistan's president announced that he will attend the ...
An Afghan refugee boy pours water on on a boy while bathing at a water point in a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, center, holds the hands of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after their joint news conference a...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, shakes hands with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani at prime minister house in Islamabad, Pakistan. Karzai has arrived in Pakistan f...
Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rasool, right, escorts his Pakistan counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar, center, after her arrival at the foreign ministry in Kabul, Afghanista.
Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, shakes hand with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, prior to their meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan
President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, right, talks with Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari in Kabul, Afghanistan.
An Afghan elderly man shouts anti Pakistan slogans during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan. Several hundred people demonstrated against rocket attacks that have killed an esti...
An Afghan refugee girl who fled her country due to war and drought, climbs on to an Afghanistan-bound truck at the UNHCR repatriation terminal in Peshawar, Pakistan. Afghan refugee...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, meets Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Afghan president arrived in Pakistan for a visit that is likely to focus...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai poses with Pakistani children upon his arrival at Chaklala airbase in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Karzai has arrived in Pakistan to likely to focus in part ...
Latifullah Mashal, a spokesman for the Afghan intelligence agency speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mashal said that Afghan's intelligence agency had shared i...
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K.P. Nayar spells it out as the prime minister, Manmohan Singh prepares to visit Washington:
Notwithstanding New Delhi’s known opposition to bracketing India along with Pakistan and Afghanistan, there are many policy-makers in the Obama administration who believe that the US cannot win the war in Afghanistan unless they also push for a solution to Kashmir and that the problem of a failing state in Pakistan cannot be adequately addressed unless New Delhi and Islamabad are nudged towards a reconciliation...
...there is lack of comprehension now in New Delhi that the Obama administration intends to eventually legitimize the Taliban: what Washington is looking for is a way to put the best front on that eventuality and justify such an about-turn...
Read the full piece at the Telegraph
C. Raja Mohan adds:
...the cynical view of the prime minister’s visit to Washington is that it will be long on rhetoric but short on substance. But the unfolding developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan are too consequential for the national security of both India and the United States for their leaders to waste the opportunity for thinking at the highest levels about political cooperation on stabilising the north-western parts of the Subcontinent.
Read on at the Indian Express
