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2007-10-30 India-Pakistan

Pakistan hires another lobbyist in Washington

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Posted by john frum 2007-10-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Cassidy and Associates = Robert Byrd, Pork, etc. Once caught using money appropriated to a non-profit corp. for research work to do more lobbyying to raise more money. Thus the famous Byrd amendment and disclosure that you are lobbying using someone elses money than the US governments. I think the year was around 1988 or somewhere close. Think about it - up until then lobbyists never spent a dime -they used OPM - yours.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-10-30 13:09|| 2007-10-30 13:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Robin Raphael's husband was the US ambassador to Pakistan. He died along with the dictator General Zia Ul Haq in the infamous 'crash'.

Apparently Raphael thought India had a part in this.

India was pretty much under the radar for most in DC and for a few years the Senate didn't even confirm an ambassador. Robin Raphael ran the show from Foggy Bottom and, unnoticed by higher ups, regularly offended India by arranging Kashmiri 'dialogues'. The Hurriyat Conference is basically her creation. She was notorious for making provocative statements against India.
This seriously colored Indian perceptions of Washington's intent.

It took active engagement at the Presidential and SOS level to remove the Indian mistrust of the US caused by Raphael.

Posted by john frum 2007-10-30 17:46|| 2007-10-30 17:46|| Front Page Top

#3 It was her questioning of the instrument of accession that really irked the Indians.

These instruments were specified in the UK's Indian Independence Act of 1947. Each of the hundreds of princely states had to accede to either India or Pakistan.

Pakistan, faced with a valid signed instrument for Jammu and Kashmir claimed it was forged decades later,, an absurdity since it was witnessed and signed by the last Viceroy of the Indian Empire, Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin to Queen Elizabeth.

Raphael's repetition of Pakistani propaganda seriously damaged Indo-US relations.
Madeline Albright did her bit to screw things up as well.

Posted by john frum 2007-10-30 17:56|| 2007-10-30 17:56|| Front Page Top

#4 She's got a lot of blood on her hands.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-10-30 18:10|| 2007-10-30 18:10|| Front Page Top

#5 "Madeline Albright did her bit to screw things up as well."

That's a general, all-occasion statement, John.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-30 18:11|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-10-30 18:11|| Front Page Top

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