Last few months international politics was prominently in news. The year begins with Jasmine revolution in Tunisia followed by successive change of guard in Egypt and still the wave in Libya and Yemen. Amidst this political experts in the east and the west were engaged in future political discourse, the world is looking for, but suddenly the psyche of news has shifted its focal from Middle East to Pakistan. The reason of news focus shift is the elimination of Osama Bin Laden in “secret mission” of USA commandos in Abbottabad (Pakistan). The way the mission reached to its culmination is important for postmortem report and future implications.
The war against terrorism as declared by US was there for more than a decade and has led US exchequers more expenditure than WWII. The way terrorism was making its penetration to various countries causing loss of US and other west’s interest was alarming. Given the background of 26/11 attack in WTC and Pentagon, terrorism led by AL-Qaeda has put a question mark to the so called dominancy of US in international politics.
US can bear the loss to its hawkish and dominant identity in international politics. George W Bush and his party could not be victorious because American felt the Bush was not capable of saving “American nation” and American safety and so the change was fruited with Barack Obama.
Obama arrival was welcomed by challenges of domestic front and international loss of nerve. Secondly Obama’s policy of retreating US soldiers from Afghanistan from mid June and thirdly the coming elections (after successive loss at various states) Obama regime was in acute need of some positive agenda.
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This first positive agenda was well crafted in a secret mission in Abbottabad. Where, Osama reportedly was hiding in fortress like building at the nose of high security zone of Pakistan.
From post Abbottabad ground, two questions have emerged. Firstly, the unilateral action of US without acknowledgement of a sovereign nation and so the question “Does the international terrorism gives the open key to US to undermine the sovereignty of a nation?” and if so the realist school of international politics. “Every nation is at war with other nation for its national interest is true and so the near world politics will be marked by the war on different grounds.
Secondly, given such undermining of sovereignty, why not Pakistan approaches the UN and why UN is silent? It implies UN is following the stands of League of Nations and if so then the UNO itself, in the period of globalisation requires democratization of UNSC to make it more accountable and responsible international organization?
The major question that also comes in this context is, “was really the aid and funding of US, to Pakistan was misused for long and was not known to US?” If accepted, as reputedly accused by US, brings further ambiguity in the politics of Pakistan. The way ISI, Al-Qaeda, Lashker-E-Toiba and political elites of Pakistan are in hands and global nexus is a threat to nuclear safety in Pakistan and so requires the global powers to ask for nuclear disarmament in Pakistan.
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Having said so, the security challenges at global level is more alarming now because Al-Qaeda would like to take the revenge and the revenge could be manifested at more installations of US and other liberal and democratic country’s interests.
The post Abbottabad situations at global politics also reflects that Pakistan is a weak state at domestic front and at international diplomatic level, besides proves Pakistan as the epicenter of terrorism. This means Pakistan has to face more challenges especially from US and just neighboring country India. As a conclusive remark, it could be said that the post Abbottabad international politics is going to be the politics of new political opportunism, new alliance, new diplomacy, sovereignty, re-countering terrorism and especially the role of UNO has to be redefined to meet the serious challenges emerging out in this new global order for supremacy of power to bring the balance of power.