By H.D.S. Greenway – THE BOSTON GLOBE

ONE CAN only watch in horror as relations between the United States and Pakistan continue to deteriorate, for there will be no chaos-free exit from Afghanistan without Pakistan. We have become accustomed to the loud accusations of perfidy leveled at Islamabad — it is playing a double game, Americans say, protecting terrorists who are attacking our troops in Afghanistan. But to make an enemy out of Pakistan is to lose sight of the fact that Pakistan is far more important to US interests than Afghanistan ever was.

Republican contenders for Barack Obama’s job fall over each other suggesting ways to be tough on Pakistan. But it was Jon Huntsman who put his finger on the problem. “I would recognize exactly what the US-Pakistani relationship has become, which is merely a transactional relationship,’’ Huntsman said. American aid should be contingent on Pakistan’s keeping up the fight on terrorism and on keeping American supply lines to Afghanistan open, he said.

And that’s the trouble. For although the Obama administration still talks about a strategic relationship with Pakistan, it has long since become a transactional one. Here’s your money, the United States seems to say, so now do what we say and do it now!

Pakistan, on the other hand, would have liked a true strategic relationship in which the United States would take cognizance of Pakistan’s strategic fears, needs, and national interests. Instead, US officials keep scolding Pakistan for not subordinating its strategic interests to America’s. continue

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President Asif Ali Zardari, who flew to Dubai suddenly on Tuesday, complaining of heart pains, had been feeling increased pressure over the "Memogate" scandal and he may resign, according to a dispatch posted on Foreign Policy magazine's web site. "The noose was getting tighter — it was only a matter of time," The Cable, Foreign Policy's blog, quoted a former US government official as saying. The official expressed the growing expectation inside the U.S. government that Zardari may be on the way out, the dispatch said.

The former US official told The Cable that when President Barack Obama spoke with Zardari over the weekend regarding NATO's killing of the 24 Pakistani soldiers, Zardari was "incoherent." He said that parts of the U.S. government were informed that Zardari had a "minor heart attack" on Monday night and flew to Dubai via air ambulance on Tuesday. He may have angioplasty on Wednesday and may also resign on account of "ill health." the dispatch said.

"This is the ‘in-house change option' that has been talked about," Shuja Nawaz, director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council, told The Cable. Nawaz said that this plan would see Zardari step aside and be replaced by his own party, preserving the veneer of civilian rule but ultimately acceding to the military's wishes to get rid of Zardari, according to The Cable. "Unfortunately, it means that the military may have had to use its muscle to effect change yet again," Nawaz was quoted as saying. "Now if they stay at arm's length and let the party take care of its business, then things may improve. If not, then this is a silent coup with [Pakistani prime minister Yousaf Raza] Gilani as the front man." continue

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Government of Pakistan is not playing its role in recording casualties in drone attacks while Pakistani security officials release false information to the media regarding victims of CIA’s drone attack in Pakistan. The Conflict Monitoring Center’s monthly report on drone attacks highlights contradictions in government’s public stance on drone attacks and its seriousness to record names and other identities of the victims of drone attacks. According to CMC’s findings there is a need to launch official investigation to find out why ‘anonymous’ security officials release details of every single drone attacks and why these officials overlook civilian casualties. The report says that at one occasion Pakistan’s Army Chief was condemning civilian casualties in drone attacks while same casualties were declared ’suspected militants’ by Pakistani security officials. The Conflict Monitoring Center keeps record of every single drone attack and issues monthly and annual reports on drone attacks. According to the data collected from mainstream national and international newspapers as well as from local newspapers of Peshawar, American Central Intelligence Agency has killed a maximum of 37 and minimum of 26 human beings inside Pakistan during the month of November 2011 with missiles fired from unmanned drone aircrafts. The CIA has carried out 4 drone attacks during the month which is half to the number of drone attacks in October 2011. Apart from two most wanted British militants, most of those killed were unknown human beings. Three out of these four attacks were carried out in North Waziristan while the only drone attack in South Waziristan reportedly targeted the basecamp of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The attack on TTP’s basecamp was the deadliest attack of the month in which 18 suspected militants were killed on November 16, 2011. The CIA carried out three drone attacks on three consecutive days i.e. on 15, 16 and 17th of the month, while one drone attack was carried out on 3rd November. Nationwide protest was observed against drone attacks and US military incursions in Pakistan during the last week of the month. The CMC also states in its report that about 30 civilians were also killed in drone attacks in Somalia during the month of November 2011. continue

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A noted South Asia defence analyst who spent six years in Pakistan as Australia's military attache has condemned as "unpardonable" Nato's attack on border posts in Mohmand in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed.

"The US assault is unpardonable," wrote Cloughley in Counter Punch, a bi-weekly American newsletter. "It was one of the only too frequent Cowboy Yippee Shoots, as we used to call them in Vietnam when I served there in the Australian army. Some things don’t change," said Cloughley, who contributes regularly to Jane's weekly said.

Cloughley, who now lives in France, said he was in Mohmand three weeks ago, visiting 77 Brigade, "whose officers and soldiers were slaughtered by US aircraft, and I know exactly where Pakistan’s border posts are located. And so do American forces, because they have been informed of the precise coordinates of them all."

"Nobody can deny that the posts are well inside Pakistan," he wrote. continue

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The results of a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan revealed that majority (62%) of Pakistanis believe American influence in Pakistan has risen during the PPP government. A nationally representative sample of men and women from across the four provinces was asked whether they agree or disagree with the view that American influence has increased during the PPP government, or there has been no change?

Responding to this 62% agreed that the US influence had increased, 19% disagreed whereas 12% believed that there was no change in it. However 7% did not give a view.

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Ruling party’s top newspaper says Washington has violated international law.

REUTERS | People’s Daily
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China's top state newspaper on Tuesday accused the United States of flouting international law and fanning terrorism after a NATO attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, and it warned that the Islamabad's grip on security could be dangerously weakened.
The condemnation in the People's Daily, the main newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party, kept up Beijing's angry words in support of its partner, Pakistan, whose prime minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, has said that "business as usual" with the United States was over after the attack on Saturday.

NATO called the killings a "tragic, unintended incident," and U.S. officials said NATO and American investigatons will determine what happened in the attack in northwest Pakistan. But the People's Daily said the attack already laid bare deeper problems in the U.S. approach to militant threats. 

"Above all, we must be clear that the United States and NATO have trampled on international laws and rules," said a commentary in the newspaper.

"The risk in fighting terror this way is that it will ignite latent sympathy and support for terrorism, as well as hurting many innocent people and damaging international law," said a commentary in the Chinese-language newspaper. "The soil nurturing terrorism will become even more fertile, and the space for terrorism to spread even broader," it said. continue

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