Downslided Us-pak Relations Will Adversely Affect Indo Pak Friendship, Particularly J&k, And Afghani

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Proverbially, the summer of 2011 following May 2, proved to be quite blistering for Pak army, not only for its fall from grace with the US, but also in the eyes of Pakistan’s public. Many events of this year have taken a heavy toll on the morale of Pak army’s rank and file. And as the year ends, the memogate crisis widens the Pakistan’s civil-military trust deficit, despite army chief Gen Ashfaq P Kayani’s assurances of the army not taking over yet again.

Ever since Pakistan army’s duplicitous post 9/11 u-turn of hunting with the hounds and running with the hare, while the US giving it the status of ‘frontline ally in the war against terror’, kept giving it arms and monetary aid, this writer often asked how long this flawed equation could continue. Most of the arms Pakistan received from the US were not applicable for counter-terrorism operations and got added to Pak army’s arsenal meant for use against India. It took ten years and the loss of almost 2,800 coalition casualties for the US to decide upon course-correction vis-a-vis Pak army and Inter Services Intelligence agency. The fissures following the ...
... killing of Osama bin Laden in the meticulously planned operation by US special forces on May 2, 2011, at Abbotabad, widened over the months, causing serious problems between Pakistan’s ever-powerful army and its civilian leadership.

Two recent developments marking a recorded low in the plummeting US-Pak relationship following the killing of Osama bin Laden in the meticulously planned operation by US special forces on May 2, 2011 happen to be rather ironically timed coincidences. This adversely affected the indo-Pak relationship .The first was the US attack killing 26 Pakistani soldiers on 26 November 2011 exactly three years after ten Pakistani terrorists attacked Mumbai and the second was US announcing a cut in aid to Pakistan almost exactly 40 years after sending its 7th Fleet into Indian waters to support Pakistan, which had provoked the third India-Pakistan Relation and War in December 1971. Pakistan waged both the 1965 and 1971wars against India with weapons doled out to it by the US. Pakistan News paper reveal this , Ratcheting up pressure on its “troubled strategic ally,” leaders of the US negotiating panel comprising armed services committees from both parties in the House and Senate including Republican Senator John McCain agreed to freeze $ 700 million in US aid to Pakistan until it offers to help in the fight against improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the region. IEDs used by terrorists have been the cheapest and most effective weapons against US and coalition troops in Afghanistan as they struggle to fight a resurgent Taliban. Many are made using ammonium nitrate, a common fertilizer shipped across the border from Pakistan to Afghanistan. The freeze on US aid was agreed as part of a defense bill that is expected to be passed this week. "The vast majority of the material used to make improvised explosive devices used against US forces in Afghanistan originates from two fertilizer factories inside Pakistan," McCain said in the Senate recently.

With US $ 20 billion allocated for security and economic aid since 2001, much of it in the form of reimbursements for assistance in fighting militants, Pakistan has been one of the largest recipients of US foreign aid. While the cutback announced is only a small proportion of the $ 20 billion, it may lead to greater cuts as calls in US grow shriller to penalise Islamabad for not only failing to act against militant groups, but worst, helping them.

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