Re: Major foreign policy development - Pak wants broader long term relationship with
Pakistan's mistakes at government and other levels in dealing with or expoiting US relationship is well known. However the current problems are two-fold.
First, USA is firmly of the belief that Pakistan has not and is not fulfilling their end of the deal in arresting and killing the extremists and terrrorists. To the point that they have now concluded that the Pakistani army and intelligence are working for the extremists and terrorists.
Secondly, the US India nuclear deal - nobody, least of all in Pakistan, can understand what exactly this deal accomplishes and implications. If it is merely for India to acquire much needed fuel or is it a lot more. What ever these implications may be, the ground reality is that while the daily headlines are about such deals with India, on th either side it is about US commanders "visiting" Pakistan unannounced to "urge" and "press" Pakistan to act against extremists and terrorists.
I was also a bit amazed to read that while the US India deal almost fell apart due to opposition by communist party in power in India, this has been used successfully by the other parties to show to people that the communist parties are 'pro chinese' and thus throw them out of power!