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    Quick analytical responses to occurrences in South Asia

    218 : India-Afghanistan Strategic Agreement: Opportunity for Peace and for Pakistan

    Sajjad Ashraf

    18 October 2011

    President Karzai’s statement in New Delhi that ‘ Pakistan is a twin brother, India is a great friend ’ is unlikely to assuage Pakistan’s concerns over the real nature and implications of Indo - Afg han Strategic Agreement for Pakistan. The deal signed on October 4; he added ‘with our friend will not affect our brother’.