Amidst the deluge that has affected a fifth of Pakistan, the country’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) surprised the international community by making an equally astonishing assessment, stating that India no longer remained Pakistan's number one threat.

Tragically, few in the country are seized of such grave dangers concurrently building up against India. But what’s unforgiveable is the patent disinterest of the Congress leadership to rectify and energize the Manmohan Singh leadership, or replace him if he cannot change. A strange and hopeless paralysis has taken hold of India.

As the British delegation leaves New Delhi this week, commentators have hailed a new era of UK-India relations.  The question as to reciprocity remains. While the British Prime Minister has talked of a “new special relationship”, for India is this just another improved bilateral link to add to it coterie of twenty plus strategic “partnerships” and “relationships”?

The revelations on WikiLeaks about the damage done to US, NATO and Indian interests in Afghanistan by the sinister nexus between the ISI, Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, and the various factions of the Taliban supported by it, have caused irreparable harm to Pakistan’s fledging democracy and the civilian government’s already floundering foreign policy.

The technocracy lead by Manmohan Singh that is ruling India is running amok in the absence of political checks on it either by the governing Congress or by the opposition, although its Left (CPI-M and CPI) and Right (BJP/NDA) components tactically allied to enforce a Bharat Bandh (national shutdown) to protest runaway food and fuel inflation earlier this month.