15:41     24 February 2022    

Whatever the purpose of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan`s visit to Moscow, it couldn’t have been to influence Russia’s Ukraine Policy or to “encourage” Putin to march in the Country’s breakaway regions, - said to Baku Triune a former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) director general retired Lt Gen Asad Durrani.

Whatever the purpose of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan`s visit to Moscow, it couldn’t have been to influence Russia’s Ukraine Policy or to “encourage” Putin to march in the Country’s breakaway regions, - said to Baku Triune a former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) director general retired Lt Gen Asad Durrani. t’s true however that during the last three decades Pakistan has been drifting in the “eastern camp”, which post 9/11 brought Russia too “under the tent. Developments in Ukraine are best explained by two US establishment hands. In 2014, George Friedman, the founder of Stratfor, described Ukraine as Russia’s “strategic depth”. Zbigniew Brzezinski in his magnum-opus, The Grand Chessboard, explained “why NATO’s expansion would offer Russia a chance to undo the mistakes of the past, and why it would not miss this opportunity”. The chess analogy is actually a good one to understand how the big countries move their pawns around before going for the kill. We also know which nation has traditionally been good at this game in which dominating the center of the board was the key to success. American Wrestling on the other hand is about beating up weaker opponents, or paying the tougher ones in fixed fights. And cricket mad countries have no choice but wait for the umpire’s finger. Since on “strategic depths”, we have some experience; someone tell the Russians whom we once helped to get out of one, that the best is to accept them as “buffers”.