Pakistan and U.S. relations: friends or foes?
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only the rulers are friends.
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The United States and Pakistan share a close, long-term partnership. The $3 billion, five-year assistance package announced by President Bush in June 2003 demonstrates our commitment to support Pakistan's efforts to strengthen security in the region, help Pakistan's participation in the war on terror, and build economic opportunities for its citizens by reducing poverty, illiteracy and the conditions in which extremism flourishes.    \n\nU.S. debt relief and development assistance for Pakistan will enhance private sector growth, economic reform and good governance.  The $200 million of Economic Support Fund assistance to Pakistan this year and $300 million of Economic Support Funds requested of the Congress for Fiscal Year 2005 target the following areas: \n\n    * At least $100 million of Economic Support Funds for Fiscal Year 2005 will go for social sector support, including university scholarships, new health, education and water projects, and training for local officials, including women councilors.   \n    * $200 million allocated in Economic Support supplemental funding will be applied to debt relief in Fiscal Year 2004.  The United States has led the effort to dramatically reduce Pakistan's official debt through Paris Club rescheduling and bilateral forgiveness.  Pakistan's debt to the United States has been cut in half - by $1.5 billion - freeing up national revenue for programs to improve the quality of life and increase the capacity of Pakistan's local governments to meet the needs of their people.  \n\nOther U.S. government assistance will strengthen education; improve maternal and child health care delivery; strengthen the legislature, local government, political parties, civil society and the independent media; and increase access to micro-credit.\n\nAt the same time, the $300 million Foreign Military Financing assistance requested for next year will strengthen Pakistan's ability to confront terrorist remnants seeking sanctuary in its border regions.  Other security assistance to Pakistan will help strengthen its law enforcement  and counter-narcotics capacities. \n\nTogether, the United States and Pakistan are dismantling the A.Q. Khan network responsible for proliferating nuclear weapons-related technologies.  We will remain vigilant in the fight against the spread of all weapons of mass destruction.   The United States is fully engaged with Pakistan on a range of important nonproliferation issues and is working with Pakistan on steps to bring its export control system in line with international standards
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First of all, you have the cart before the horse.  The Pakistani military must be willing to help the US and UK.  What they do accomplish is great, but it's also usually a 1 step forward and two back situation.\n\nSecond, they aren't going ot get technology help until the Pak military, and especially the intelligence service, is actually accountable to civil authority.
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Most likely. They are double dealing and they will get burned for that. Look what happened when Afghanistan not only supported but protected the Taliban. Pakistan needs to stop being friendly to terrorists while pretending to support our war on terror. I dont know why they are allowed to have nuclear weapons.
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No. Have you ever heard the saying "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" before? Foreign relations lead to strange bedfellows, such is the nature of diplomacy.
703699
My own opinion is that I have met and worked with people from Pakistan and they are just as fine and hard working as anyone else.  However, there are many in that nation that have been seduced by radicalism.  Unfortuantely this makes them less than friendly to the west and it;s values.
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Because they are a hop, skip, and a jump away from Afganistan where we have troops already deployed. On the other side you have India who would GLADLY help the US with Pakistan. All to do with self preservation not shared political values.
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He needs to show support for the Pakistani government, since they show so much for the USA. It is the right thing to do.  As much as people think we show too much favor for India, it is funny, since my friends just spent 5 months there at a Army Hospital just for earthquake relief!!!  America may be fighting, but we are ALWAYS there when needed.  \n\nI hope relations between Pakistan, India and the USA get better and better.
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This is an easy one:  Kuwait.\n\nKuwait has, without exception, shown itself as a trustworthy and loyal friend to the U.S.\n\nSaudi Arabia was playing both sides of the fence, but recently they have reversed this policy.  They appear to be firmly on our side, but Kuwait has, by far, the longer track record.\n\nEgypt is not a real friend.  Their government may help us on occasion, but mainly they just like the billions in aid we give them every year.  The average Egyptian hates the U.S.\n\nIronically, Libya may turn out to be a strong ally soon.  They have renounced their WMD programs, and may intervene on our behalf with Iran and North Korea.
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YES.US does think tat its d Godfather of the world.The so called "Super power" does not hav empathy towards the people of other counntries such as Iraq & pakistan & so on.\n\nThey are only concerned about themselves.
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L'opinion: Pakistan needs UN and OIC umbrella to send peace-keeping forces to Iraq\nIraq-Pakistan, Politics, 7/21/2003 \n\nPakistan will only send peace-keeping missions to Iraq under a mandate of the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who paid an official visit to Morocco, told Morocan daily "L'opinion."\n\nMusharraf said Pakistan has not yet made a decision regarding a request to send troops to Iraq for a peace-keeping mission, underlining that the final decision should serve Pakistan's national interests and its relations with Islamic countries in the region.\n\nOn the situation in the Middle East, Musharraf said the only means to establish sustainable peace in the region goes through carrying on negotiations that would lead to a comprehensive and fair solution in conformity with United Nations resolutions and based on the legitimate right of the Palestinian people of self-determination.\n\nEvoking Arab Maghreb countries' position on the Kashmir question, the Pakistani president underscored that he is certain that these countries fully understand Pakistan's position concerning its support for a peaceful solution to the conflict.\n\nMusharraf also said Pakistani authorities do not have any new information about where Ussam Bin Laden is, underlining that they don't know for sure if he is dead or still alive. In the same vein, he hoped Pakistani-Afghan relations would be further reinforced on the basis of mutual sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs of the other party.\n\nHe added that Pakistan is participating in the re-construction of Afghanistan and that it fully supports the interim administration of president Hamid Karazay.
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Im writing this more as a response to nawab's answere because its pretty clear that paksitan's being spared because of strategic reasons in the subcontinent region. as far nawb's answere is concerned and his reference to pakistan having a "big" stake in the fight against terrorism and that pakis dying and the casualty number being more than 9/11 victims and also the highlight being and which forced me to post this answere that pakistan's "strategy" winning the war agaist U.S.S.R. Im glad that he pointed out the fact that the US supplied money and weapons for the war against soviet union, however american military and the american intelligence is n was not stupid enough to tell pakistan that "ok guys here's the dow n here's the hardware, go and kick ass we know u can do it on ur own while we sit at pentagon n watch the video game". cmon give urself a break and come back to reality for gawd's sake dude, pakistan couldn't even win a war against india and paki military was not even half of what its right now then (not that its any better now) and you think the US IS GONNA THROW ALL THAT MONEY AND military resources on a country like that and depend on its strategies? yeah rt? The war was majorly won because of the afghan terrain and the afghan mujahideen guirellas and also things were not going great at home for the reds and the deterioration of soviet union had started by then. tye strategies were completely provided by the US military ad to an extent the afgahn mujahideen AND NOT BY THE PAKI MILITARY (maybe there were jobless pakis fighting the war just like they are doing right now by joinign different terrorist organisations). The problems that pakistan faces today and why it has to pump in so much of itys own resources in fighting the terrorist is becoz of it s own "policies and stragies" that it followed, which was supporting taliban and other hard core terrorist groups and also turnign a blind eye to their recruitment and other unacceptable activities because pakistan wanted to get abck at india for helping bangladesh break away by cultivating terrorsit camps. entire world knows that in paki mosques  on fridays there are people collecting and donating money openly and freely in the name of islam which is used for terrorist activites. so pakistan is not the victim here its the perpetrator. its the paki guy who was the master mind behind 9/11 and the london bombers were trained in pakistan and also the 7 terrorist caught in london recently were alos trained in apkistan which they admitted. yes there are good people in pakistan but majority of them hate US and the wesatern world(no one knows for sure why the master mind of 9/11 who is a paki palnned it in the fiors place, he had no good reason to do that). they hate the same world were they immigrate to and crawl to all the nook and corners of new york or london or sydney abd then support terrorism from tere. pakistan is a country which is created by spiulling blood and it will get washed away in blood in its own blood. god bless america!!
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No. I guess u got the wrong info. Let me give u some facts on India / Pak regarding Kashmir since 1947. Its long but i hope u read it. Read especially the part about partition, and the states having a choice whom to join.\n\n\nPakistan claims that Kashmir should be a part of Pakistan bcoz majority population is Muslim (mainly after terrorizing and driving out 600,000 Hindus). The Pak army just wants to use Kashmir as a base for a larger agenda of destroying and talibanizing India and converting it into a Islamic theocracy. And India's claim is based on the treaty signed by the then king of Kashmir (same treaty was signed by other princely states for accession to India) and secularism.\n\nUN Security Council resolutions 38-40, and particularly the resolution of August 13, 1948, said that Pakistan had attacked Kashmir, and ordered Pakistan to withdraw its forces and its tribals (those were disguised as tribals but they were pak army men). Pakistan has yet to obey UN Security Council and withdraw from lands (now called POK, Pak Occupied Kashmir) controlled illegally.\nRecently released documents reveal that in 1948, the then US Secretary of State Gen. George C. Marshall told the pro-Pak British that Kashmirs accession with India was legal and final as far as US was concerned.\nIn 1952, the Kashmir legislature, elected in elections recognized by observers as free and fair, with 100% of the legislators Muslim, voted to ratify Kashmirs accession with India. And the elections after that too were similar. Compare POK with Indian Kashmir.\n\nPakistan gave away a large part of the POK to China, which now claims those lands as its own.\n\nIn April 1993, then CIA director James Woosley at an open Senate hearing said, Pakistan, while not yet on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, but is Aon the brink. (in 1993, now its worse).\nIn December 1999, the Director of CIA George Tenet and State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism Michael Sheen testified before a Senate subcommittee that US has evidence that Pakistan is a state-sponsor of terrorism against India.\nIn 2000, State Departments report on terrorism described Pakistans official involvement in terrorism against India, but fell short of adding Pakistan to list of countries sponsoring terrorism because that would have automatically triggered severe sanctions against an old cold-war ally.\nIn 2000, a bipartisan Congressional commission on terrorism recommended to the State Department that sanctions be imposed on Pakistan for its role in terrorism, but this report was ignored.\n\nThe British government in Spring 2001 put several Pakistan-supported organizations openly engaged in terrorism on the official list of terrorist organizations, to be followed later by the US.\nMajor political parties in Pakistan and Pak media have repeatedly asked Pak governments over the years to break bonds with terrorists and get out of the Kashmir issue, because supporting terrorists has resulted only in increasing Talibanization of Pakistan.\nBenazir Bhutto, ex-Pak Prime Minister, has said that ISI (Pakistani governments intelligence service) is a force onto itself, and she had no knowledge of what ISI was doing when she was PM.\nOn 11-21-01, the Hon. Mr. Robert D. Blackwell, US Ambassador to India, told the press that Pakistan-supported individuals involved in killings in Kashmir are terrorists and that They are not freedom fighters. No country will be permitted to provide sanctuaries to terrorists. He made similar comments again on 2-27-02\n\nPak Governments direct and obvious involvement in terrorism against India over decades has resulted in 50,000 HINDUS being amongst 70,000 innocent civilians KILLED and 500,000 TO 600,000 HINDUS FLED KASHMIR IN TERROR; world has been silent about this ethnic cleansing of Hindus from Kashmir.\n\nPakistan, which created, nurtured and protected Taliban, has claimed that Taliban is not terrorist.\nPakistan press reported in Dec. 2001 th
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All I know is India and Pakistan have a region between them called Jamo & Kashmir and they fight there like hell.\nSo what's the point?\nI hope they don't end up nuking each other. I really like India.
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pakistan is lot more developed than cambodia and ethopia, it acts as front line ally with america in fight for terrorism, the economy is growing rapidly.
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Hey,Fcukers. Pakistan already fought four wars with India who is 10 times stonger than pakistan so the thing is India will not be able to destroy us.pakistan also have nukes.I say that it will be the dooms day when pakistan will be destroyed with the rest of the world.
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America is clearly seeing its own interests and is supporting a country who will be able to help them in future. And clearly  this country is india and not pakistan since india is stronger economically, technologically, militarily and is becoming an important global player. This has nothing to to do with peace in the Indian subcontinent or with ethics.