WASHINGTON: The United States has said that maintaining a cooperative relationship with Pakistan is in its interest, with Washington’s top diplomat acknowledging the fact that the US has been partly responsible for the challenging relationship it has had with the key South Asian country.Appearing jointly on popular Charlie Rose Show, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Secretary of State James Baker, who served from 1989-92, both underscored that despite differences on some important regional and international issues, severing ties with Pakistan would not be in Washington’s interests.
“I think that our relationship with Pakistan has been challenging for a long time. Some of it is of our own making,” Clinton told the programme.
Continuing, she said, “there’s a lot of concern looking back. We did a great job in getting rid of the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan. But I think a lot of us and Bob Gates (former Secretary of Defense) has said this, looking back now, perhaps we should have been more involved in the aftermath of what was going to happen to the Pakistanis.”
Clinton was referring to the post 1979 period when through the 1980s the US-led international partners used Pakistan’s tribal areas as staging ground for militants, to get them funding, training and arms to fight Soviet occupation of neighboring Afghanistan and then left the region abruptly after 1990.In the interview, Clinton touched on some of the prickly issues of concern to the United States, including the ability of Afghan militants to cross Pak-Afghan border for attacks in Afghanistan, and the sentencing of Dr Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani who worked for CIA in hunt for bin Laden before his death in the American raid last summer.
But, Clinton said, she would “completely agree (with former secretary Baker) it is not in our interests to cut off our relationship” with Pakistan.
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