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201586
Tue, 08/16/2011 - 11:55
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Pak-US differences growing over strategic policies: Pakistani editor
Islamabad, Aug 16, IRNA –- Editor of a leading Pakistani newspaper on Monday said putting conditions by US on Pakistan military aid shows that difference between two allies is growing over strategic policies.
Western media have reported that the White House has started conditioning the award of billions of dollars in security assistance to Pakistan on whether Islamabad shows progress on a secret scorecard of US objectives to combat al-Qaeda and its militant allies. The US also is asking Pakistan to take specific steps to ease bilateral tensions.
Raid by US Special Forces to kill Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan has caused a severe dent in uneasy relationship between Pakistan and United States.
Talking to IRNA the editor of the English daily ‘The News’ Mohammad Malick said that definition of a “terrorist” is yet to be defined. “There is a clear difference between the strategies of Pakistan and US in fight against terrorism”, he said.
He was of the view that ‘definitely US would be expecting Pakistan to follow their conditions in return of the aid they are giving to us’.
Criticizing the Pakistani leadership the journalist said that the government was not giving importance to national interest.
“Unfortunately the Americans have hired us for war against terrorism, we are doing this job for them”, he said.
The editor said that US is tightening screw on Pakistan and that is why the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has backed off from its installment to Pakistan.
Mohammad Malick added that Pakistan is not an aid driven country. “We must follow the policy of self reliance”, he advised.
Analysts in Pakistan say that the government should come out of an alliance with the US in war against terrorism.
US aid to Pakistan, including economic and security-related assistance, totaled nearly $4.5 billion in fiscal 2010. Security aid accounted for more than $2.7 billion of that, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Officials say the White House has already frozen some $800 million in security assistance to Pakistan in recent months because of factors that include Islamabad's refusal to readmit American trainers and military personnel who process Pakistani reimbursement claims—items that fall into categories on the US performance checklist.
Reports say that under the new approach, the office of the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is compiling classified scorecards that track Pakistan's cooperation in four areas, referred to in the White House as 'baskets.'
A spokesman for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency denied the US had formally presented Pakistan with such a list and said it was Pakistan's prerogative to decide how to combat terrorism and conduct relations with Afghanistan.
Majority of Pakistanis believe that war on terror has practically been an American war in which the Pakistani government went beyond limits of subservience to the US.
Mohammad Malick editor of the English daily ‘The News’, He is also a well-known member of Geo Television./end
Western media have reported that the White House has started conditioning the award of billions of dollars in security assistance to Pakistan on whether Islamabad shows progress on a secret scorecard of US objectives to combat al-Qaeda and its militant allies. The US also is asking Pakistan to take specific steps to ease bilateral tensions.
Raid by US Special Forces to kill Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan has caused a severe dent in uneasy relationship between Pakistan and United States.
Talking to IRNA the editor of the English daily ‘The News’ Mohammad Malick said that definition of a “terrorist” is yet to be defined. “There is a clear difference between the strategies of Pakistan and US in fight against terrorism”, he said.
He was of the view that ‘definitely US would be expecting Pakistan to follow their conditions in return of the aid they are giving to us’.
Criticizing the Pakistani leadership the journalist said that the government was not giving importance to national interest.
“Unfortunately the Americans have hired us for war against terrorism, we are doing this job for them”, he said.
The editor said that US is tightening screw on Pakistan and that is why the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has backed off from its installment to Pakistan.
Mohammad Malick added that Pakistan is not an aid driven country. “We must follow the policy of self reliance”, he advised.
Analysts in Pakistan say that the government should come out of an alliance with the US in war against terrorism.
US aid to Pakistan, including economic and security-related assistance, totaled nearly $4.5 billion in fiscal 2010. Security aid accounted for more than $2.7 billion of that, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Officials say the White House has already frozen some $800 million in security assistance to Pakistan in recent months because of factors that include Islamabad's refusal to readmit American trainers and military personnel who process Pakistani reimbursement claims—items that fall into categories on the US performance checklist.
Reports say that under the new approach, the office of the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is compiling classified scorecards that track Pakistan's cooperation in four areas, referred to in the White House as 'baskets.'
A spokesman for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency denied the US had formally presented Pakistan with such a list and said it was Pakistan's prerogative to decide how to combat terrorism and conduct relations with Afghanistan.
Majority of Pakistanis believe that war on terror has practically been an American war in which the Pakistani government went beyond limits of subservience to the US.
Mohammad Malick editor of the English daily ‘The News’, He is also a well-known member of Geo Television./end
