Washington's Pakistan Meltdown

Washington's Pakistan Meltdown

Dilip Hiro

October 18, 2012

http://www.thenation.com/article/170656/washingtons-pakistan-meltdown?rel=emailNation  

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The United States and Pakistan are by now a classic example of a dysfunctional nuclear family (with an emphasis on “nuclear”). While the two governments and their peoples become more suspicious and resentful of each other with every passing month, Washington and Islamabad are still locked in an awkward post-9/11 embrace that, at this juncture, neither can afford to let go of.