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The recent visit of US Secretary of States Ms Clinton has not been conclusive in any case. We did not see any kind of improvement in bilateral relationship. She announced the aid of $2 billion that was already passed by the US Congress. The major concern of the strategic talks should have been the strategic interests of Pakistan but it was totally neglected.
We have heard the demand for doing more and are continuously hearing the same demand from the US officials, but our government officials are unable to convince them that we have done much and we have suffered a lot even more than you and that we are fully committed to eliminate this menace of terrorism from our country.
The US ambitions and hypocritical approach is obvious that Ms Clinton during her visit expressed reservations about the Sino- Pak nuclear deal despite the fact that it was fully transparent and under IAEA safeguards. US signed civil nuclear deal with India discounting all the fears expressed by Pakistan and neglecting its impacts on regional security. When Pakistan demanded the same concession from US, the demand was rejected. Pakistan being a fossil fuel deficit country and being in dire need of civil nuclear energy, turned toward China. When US did not bothered about Pakistan's fears about signing this deal with India, a non-NPT state, there sould be no right to raise objections about Pak China nuclear deal.
The US perspective regarding the Kashmir issue remains the same. US consider5s it a bilateral issue that need to be solved bilaterally. USA is not ready to put pressure on India to solve the dispute.
Ms. Clinton statement, about the presence of Osama in Pakistan, is absurd. It is only to put pressure on Pakistan to achieve its goal by using "Osama's presence" as a justification. No one knows whether he is alive or dead. But it is crystal clear that the death of Osama will damage American cause.
Her threatening tone when stating that any other similar event (terrorist activity by Faisal Shahzad) in America would have severe consequences for Pakistan implies that this kind of event would be sponsored from Pakistani soil and that Pakistan might be attacked in response to such event. She is threatened and depressed by with a tiny explosion in America with no causalities but would she like to think even for a while that what is happening in Pakistan, civilians and even armed forces are targeted by the terrorists almost every day. Who is backing these terrorists? Would she like to help Pakistan in finding out the fact? The nation fighting against these terrorist, the nation who is major sufferer of the terrorist activities, how can this nation promote terrorism.
Waqar-un-Nisa, Rawalpindi
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