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| US needs Pak more than it needs us: |
| US needs Pak more than it needs us: Pickering
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 22-June-2011
6:48:34 AM |
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The United States needs Pakistan more than it needs America, a former Ambassador to India said.
"We tend to need Pakistan more than Pakistan needs us. That's the current dilemma, because in many ways the United States is utterly dependent on Pakistan for logistical access to Afghanistan," former US Ambassador to India, Thomas Pickering, said in an interview.
"In some respects this situation is paradoxical, because in my own view the United States is in Afghanistan more to avoid destabilising Pakistan than for almost any other reason.
"It is utterly strange that at the same time that we are in Afghanistan trying to help Pakistan, the Pakistanis see our struggle against the Afghan Taliban as a struggle against erstwhile allies," Pickering said.
On the one hand, India is flattered, or was in the past, by the notion that the United States sees it as the largest and most significant power in South Asia, while Pakistan finds that view utterly reprehensible, he said.
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