US wants to end Kashmir issue by engaging Pakistan in the Middle East, claims Pakistani expert

New Delhi: Pakistan is sometimes entangled in Afghanistan, sometimes in Iran and sometimes in Saudi Arabia. Pakistan has made a defense pact with Saudi Arabia and Turkey and regarding this, Pakistani experts say that after this agreement, Pakistan is forever entangled in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. They say that the conflict between India and Pakistan may last for a few days every few years but the situation of war always remains in the Middle East.

Pakistani geo-political expert Ayesha Siddiqa, who is a senior fellow at King's College London and knows the Pakistani army very closely, has written through a social media post that 'Pakistan's involvement in the Middle East is very good for America's policy.'

He wrote, "One view in the US government is that Pakistan's engagement in the Middle East is not bad because it diverts its attention from Kashmir. Now, it seems, this focus has shifted to Pakistan's own Kashmir (PoK), where it is doing almost everything that is done across the border (in Indian Kashmir)."

Pakistan is embroiled in the complex geopolitics of the Middle East

Responding to Ayesha Siddiqa's post, Bilal Khan, founder of the defense website Quwa and a military analyst, wrote that he had predicted this last year. He wrote, "However, America's thinking about Pakistan may include more than just Iran. This could be a signal to Rawalpindi to look 'Westward' for both its immediate security concerns and future direction."

He further wrote, "In other words, Washington probably wants Pakistan to focus its energy on Afghanistan and Iran so that these two countries remain stable and in line with US interests. Furthermore, and most importantly, the US wants Pakistan and India to normalize their relations. This could perhaps be achieved by recognizing the Line of Control (LoC) as an international border between the two countries."