| Chandigarh |
Published: December 14, 2019 12:15:07 pm
Christine Fair with other guests at a session on the first day of the Military Literature Festival -2019 at Lake Club Chandigarh on Friday. Kamleshwar Singh
A leading expert on South Asian political and military affairs Friday said that serious questions need to be asked as to why successive US administrations kept making the same mistakes and why there was no serious strategy in place for Pakistan.
“US knew that Pakistan was being perfidious but it continued to pay that country money. We are now in a more dangerous situation than we were on 10/11. Pakistan is more aggressive,” said Christine Fair.
She said this while taking part in a discussion on the ISI, Taliban and Afghanistan on the opening day of the Military Literature Festival (MLF) here. Others who took part in the discussions were former diplomat Vivek Katju, former Secretary in cabinet Secretariat Tilak Devasher, and Maj Gen BK Singh.
Fair said the war in Afghanistan was lost the day the Americans went into the strife torn country.
“This was so because the Americans made Pakistan a partner in this area and it was one country which did not want this project to succeed. I am yet to see a failure…
