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Tue, 05/10/2011 - 13:39
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US, Pak relationship has reached breaking point: Rohrabacher

Lalit K Jha
Washington, May 10 (PTI) A key Congressman, who this
past week introduced a legislation to cease American aid money
to Pakistan, believes that the US has reached a "breaking
point" in trusting the word of the Pak government.
"I think at long last we have reached the breaking
point in trusting the word of the Pakistanis. They can only
break their word to us and lie so many times before it has
come to a point where they have broken the word and it won’t
be trusted again," US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, told
Headlines Today news channel in an interview.
Rohrabacher, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, last week
introduced a legislation in the US House of Representative
which if passed will mandate that the US government cease all
of its aid program or any type of aid money that it is
providing to Pakistan.
"After realising that the murderer -- the person who
planned out and organised the mass slaughter of Americans has
been kept there and protected by the Pakistani; leadership and
for us to continue giving them money is insanity and we will
not make it a better world by pretending that their lies were
not lies and trying to think of someone differently than the
type of person they really are," he said, according to a
transcript provided here.
The Congressman said it is beyond imagination that the
people in authority didn't know about this -- that we have
come to realisation that they have been lying to us over and
over again and we are never going to let this happen again.
Noting that it is long overdue the money that the US
has sent to Pakistan, Rohrabacher said it is questionable if
the US should have been sending large amounts of cash to a
country that doesn't seem to be able to handle it responsibly.
"...if they are going to spend their money on things
like nuclear weapons and building up their own army-- why
should we be taking money out of our pockets of our own people
and providing it to them when they are not watching out for
the needs of their own people," he said.
"So there are a lot of questions about this and the
fact that they have continued supported the radical elements
that have attacked both the American troops in Afghanistan and
sent terrorists into India," he added.
Terming the killing of Osama bin Laden as a turning
point in US-Pak relations, he said American people will never
accept the word of a Pakistani leader on any important issue.
"If we can not trust the word, what are we going to
be able to trust with this so my guess is that we will have
now -- this will be considered a starting point of a brand new
alignment of -- lets say -- a strategic positioning in South
Asia and you will see a closer closer relationship between
India and the US," Rohrabacher said.

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