New Delhi [India], Could 17 (ANI): Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Sunday cited Dr Paul Miller’s ebook ‘Selecting Defeat: The Twenty-12 months Saga of How America Misplaced Afghanistan’, saying it particulars the US involvement in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021 and highlights Pakistan’s ‘duplicitous position’ in the course of the battle.
He stated the evaluation makes the present US strategy in the direction of Pakistan beneath President Donald Trump’s second time period ‘astonishing’, particularly after Operation Sindoor, and referred to as it a diplomatic setback for India given Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s early go to to the White Home in February 2025, quickly after Trump’s return to workplace.
In a put up on X, the Congress chief wrote, ‘Dr. Paul Miller has written a vastly informative historical past of the American involvement in Afghanistan throughout 2001-2021. He identifies quite a lot of the reason why the US suffered such a humiliation, considered one of which he says was the duplicitous position of Pakistan. He explains in nice element how Presidents Bush, Obama, Trump-I and Biden ended up being deeply suspicious and distrustful of Pakistan.’
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‘This makes President Trump-II’s heat embrace of Pakistan post-Operation Sindoor all of the extra astonishing. That is much more of a diplomatic setback for India provided that Prime Minister Modi was amongst the earliest leaders to go to the White Home in mid-Feb 2025, only a month after President Trump’s second swearing-in,’ the put up learn.
Earlier within the day, Ramesh wrote to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, elevating sharp objections to the federal government’s Nice Nicobar Island Undertaking.
Within the letter, Ramesh strongly criticised the union authorities for utilizing ‘overriding safety concerns’ to justify what he phrases an ‘primarily business enterprise’ that faces intense public backlash over extreme environmental threats.
He stated that he had beforehand written to the Union Minister of Atmosphere, Forests, and Local weather Change and the Union Minister of Tribal Affairs.
‘On Could 10, 2026, I had written to the Union Minister of Atmosphere, Forests and Local weather Change on how these FAQs current a totally false image on the undertaking’s environmental clearances which, in actuality, have been given on very doubtful grounds. On Could 13, 2026, I wrote to the Union Minister of Tribal Affairs on how the FAQs misrepresent completely the place relating to the success of the provisions of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 as a part of the undertaking’s clearance course of which flagrantly violate, in letter and spirit, the person and collective rights given to tribal communities by Parliament,’ he wrote within the letter. (ANI)
