US knows Pakistani is not an ally but there isn't much we can do, short of a disastrous occupation .
Posted on 06/19/2010 8:35:19 PM PDT by nuconvert
ISLAMABAD (June 20 2010): The United States has no concern on Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline as Pakistan is an independent country and the project is its own decision, US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said here on Saturday. Holbrooke told a joint news conference with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi that work is going on regarding Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs).
He said efforts are being made for more market access for Pakistan. He especially motioned the possibility of opening up market for Pakistani mangoes to America and said these mangoes were of very high quality and taste. He assured to extend more financial help to Pakistan in energy, education, health, war against terror, water and other important sectors especially to find permanent solution to the loadshedding.
Al Qaeda's network had been "severely degraded" by joint US-Pakistani efforts, the US special envoy said. "The al Qaeda network has been severely degraded in recent years in efforts that both our countries work on." Asked whom he would hold responsible if al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the Afghan Taliban chief, Mullah Mohammad Omar, were hiding somewhere along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Holbrooke demurred.
"Many of their associates have been apprehended or killed. Even those two people ... are still at large but they are under intense pressure," he said. Holbrooke praised Pakistan's sacrifices in the fight against militants on its soil and said he hoped more would be achieved.
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Maybe one day the US govt will wake up, and see that Pakistan is no ally of America. But I doubt it.
US knows Pakistani is not an ally but there isn't much we can do, short of a disastrous occupation .
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