A top US defence official has suggested that over time, Islamabad “flirted” with terrorism as state policy.
“I was clear in Pakistan that the principal threat to Pakistan is terrorism, not its neighbours,” Deputy Defence Secretary Ashton Carter, who visited India, Pakistan and Afghanistan recently, said on Monday at a Washington think-tank.
“The government of Pakistan has flirted over time with using terrorism as an instrument of state policy, and it’s coming to the realisation that terrorism’s a boomerang and it comes back on you when you try to use it for your own purposes,” he said.
“I was honest with my hosts in Islamabad in terms of how Pakistan must achieve peaceful relations with India on the east in order to reap the benefits of cross-border trade, if it’s truly to develop its economy,” he said at the Centre for American Progress.
“And it needs a secure and stable Afghanistan on the west for the same reason,” Carter said.
The official said he “was equally frank with my interlocutors in Delhi that the US supports Pakistani efforts to improve their bilateral relations and hope Delhi will reciprocate”.
Carter said he had also told the Indians of US government’s appreciation for their support to Afghanistan “in the realms of humanitarian and development aid and their efforts to train the Afghan security forces in India”.
Its wrong to say that Pakistan abhorred terrorism Fiorst they were freedom fighters when needed against USSR and in US conflict they are are considered anti US but Pakistan is just blamed for this very act which as a matter of fact US be blamed for all the attrositied and drones in those areas. Pakistan supported and helped US and no good to blame a friendly coungtry who did a lot for America
US think tanks have started thinking after they have been relieved of Haqqani Group, just due to sheer cooperation of Pakistan and allowed a safe passage from Afghanistan, failing which their withdrawal would have been a rout. Now forcing Indian hegemony in the area only for their size wouldn't work, as Pakistanis wouldn't take it lying. There will sure be real fight. May that turn out to be a nuclear war between the two, before reaching any settlement.
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