Abstract
Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP), a bilateral initiative between US and India announced in January 20041 , was aimed at expanding cooperation in the areas of civilian nuclear programs, space and missile defense technology and trade. The initiative has been realized into an alliance with10-Year Defense Pact, paving the way for stepped up military ties, provision of nuclear technology, including joint weapons production and cooperation on missile defense.2 The pact becomes a tool to transfer hightechnology items to India without any regard for nonproliferation pledges made by the U.S. during the last 38 years or more. It is not just a technological trade deal rather it is an attempt of its own kind to reward a bad behavior, and damaging the international efforts of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons spread over last sixty years or more. Though, overtly it has been projected as marrying up or strategic partnership of two great democracies, covertly it has hidden motives like: developing India as a military counter-weight to China, checking the threat of radical Islam emerging in Pakistan and the Muslim World, controlling the flow of traffic especially oil (from the Gulf and the Central Asia) in the Indian Ocean, neutralized Pakistan’s hard nuclear capabilities, and exert influence on the changing patterns of cooperation and alliances in the region. However, it remains a big question, whether India will really benefit from the emerging partnership or becomes another partner of America, who is used at its best by the America for coming ten years and left cold bloodily once American interests are met with.
Muhammad Zulfiqar Khan Niazi. (2006) US–INDIA EMERGING STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP, The Dialogue, Volume 1, Issue 4.
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