The Us And Pakistan Face Serious Diplomatic Problems
If it wasnt for the billions of dollars that the Pakistanis are receiving in US aid money they would divorce us in a heartbeat
. This is the true representation of a marriage of convenience. Both parties just need each other for what can be provided. There is no love involved and believe me they wouldnt interact if they didnt just have to.
One of the differences that the two countries are having is the US assertion that the Pakistanis are secretly aiding the Afghan Taliban. Now if anyone were to ask me I would certainly believe that this allegation is true. One reason that I say this is because there has been too many terrorist leaders killed in Pakistan. There is no way that the Taliban can operate inside the borders of Pakistan the way that they do without receiving help from the Pakistani government.
The Pakistanis have failed time and time again to respond to US pressure to do something to clean out the terrorists hiding in their country at the request of the US which only adds to the suspicion that this causes. When we add the fact that Osama bin Laden hid in plain sight there for years before he was finally tracked down by the US I quite frankly cant see another answer. He was hidden right next to the Military Academy there when he was tracked down by the United States. Common sense says that if the US could track him down halfway across the world why didnt the Pakistanis know that he was hiding in the same country.
Pakistan's alliance with the United States and NATO plummeted to an all-time low after US air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on November 26 and Islamabad has since shut its Afghan border to NATO supply convoys. The causes and effects of the air strike are murky at best but the thought that remains with me is that those Pakistani troops who were killed had to do something to draw the air strikes that killed them. US and NATO forces didnt just attack them because they had nothing else to do.
Relations with Afghanistan are also notoriously frosty over mutual blame for insurgencies plaguing both countries, but top-level talks in Kabul on Wednesday had been aimed at charting new cooperation.
The leaked NATO document which claims Pakistani involvement with the Taliban claims that Islamabad, via Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency, is intimately involved with the insurgency and that the Taliban assume victory is inevitable once Western troops leave in 2014.
The BBC said the report was based on material from 27,000 interrogations of more than 4,000 captured Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives. Now you cant get better intelligence than that.
Taliban captives said Islamabad was using a web of intermediaries and spies to provide strategic advice to the Taliban on fighting US and NATO troops.
The Pakistanis have currently closed off NATO supply routes through its country in protest against the air strikes. They know that this action will hinder NATO troops and probably will cause some deaths but obviously they are not too concerned. I predict that they will open them up again before long because their love for the money is bigger than their love for anything else. Military Ring Express