Article(print) World Affairs Online1986

Pakistan on the front porch of conflict

In: Strategic digest, Volume 16, Issue 4, p. 413-418

O'Ballance, Edgar

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Abstract

The article claims that it is the Soviet intention to destabilize South-west Asia and that this has placed Pakistan in a front-line against Soviet expansion. Its stability is also vital for preventing the Balkanization of the region. If Pakistan disappeared, the area would erupt into a conflagration the US would unlikely be able to influence. Pakistan's ultimate security is said to rest on three pillars: support from Islamic countries, support from China and planned nuclear weapons. A fourth pillar is needed, but still too weak: US commitment. (DÜI-Asd)

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