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US alliance with Musharraf runs its course: CSIS
A report released on Monday by researchers at the United States-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) suggested that Washington seriously consider the possibility that its post-9/11 relationship with Pakistan has run its course. In an article for the spring issue of The Washington Quarterly magazine, Craig Cohen and Derek Chollet noted that while the White Houses strategy of enlisting Pakistan as a frontline ally against Qaeda and resurgent Taliban militants has forestalled disaster for five-plus years ... there is no Plan B. Yet, they warned, the costs of crisis in Pakistan are too great to live without workable options. They said that it was therefore worth asking whether US policy has reached its limits and was now being guided more by inertia than strategy, raising the possibility that US alliance with Musharraf may have run its course. The report said while the US had given Pakistan more than US $10 billion in military, economic and development assistance in the five years since the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, there was little accountability in how Pakistan spends US money. Many key officials in American agencies did not know the full extent of assistance provided. Posted by: Fred 2007-02-28 |
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