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| Why Pakistan is no longer much use to the US |
| 2018-01-24 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Throughout the Cold War, Pakistain has been an instrumental US ally in south and central Asia. And the close relationship has continued in the years after. Pakistain has been key to the US efforts in Afghanistan since 2001, as the only reliable staging post in a region squeezed between Iran and China. In the service of this alliance, the US has supported Pakistain through thick and thin, through military dictatorships, through developing their own nuclear arsenal and through successive scandals involving Pakistain’s notorious ISI intelligence agency, and their dubious activities. But in recent months, the ISI’s indiscretions and the tacit support they seem to have received from the military and politicianship of the country appear to have led the US to threaten to more or less cut ties with Pakistain. The transgressions which are motivating this move are Pakistain’s support for terrorist groups, and its duplicitous game of friend or foe it alternatively plays with the US and the Taliban |
| Posted by:Fred |