US-Pakistan security ties hit new low: report

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Pakistanis have pressured Washington to end its covert campaign of drone strikes in the country's tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and a US Special Operations training program for Pakistan's tribal defence force has largely ended. Photo by AP


WASHINGTON: The US-Pakistan security relationship has dipped to its lowest point since the September 11, 2001 attacks, threatening counterterrorism programs, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

US and Pakistan officials told the Post that the ties could deteriorate even further amid growing pressure from within the Pakistani military to reduce ties with the United States in the wake of last months US Special Operations Forces raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.

The United States kept the raid secret, not informing Pakistan ahead of time, which left its military and intelligence frustrated and humiliated after the operation that also invited allegations of incompetence and complicity.

Pakistans army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, is fighting to survive, an unnamed US official told the newspaper. His corps commanders are very strongly anti-US right now, so he has to appease them.

The pressure on Kayani is unprecedented under Pakistans strict military hierarchy.

Nobody should underestimate the pressure hes now under, another US official said.

Meanwhile, US lawmakers have been similarly displeased, complaining that Pakistani cooperation remains unreliable despite a huge US aid package that has totalled over $20 billion since 2001.

They have also denounced Pakistans arrest of several Pakistani informants who provided intelligence to the CIA about bin Ladens compound.

According to the Post, one of those detained was Major Amir Aziz, a doctor in the Pakistani armys medical corps who lived next to bin Ladens Abbottabad compound.

He was said to have monitored who entered and left the residence, though the Pakistani military denied that any army officer had been detained over what it called the Abbottabad incident.

Meanwhile, the Pakistanis have pressured Washington to end its covert campaign of drone strikes in the countrys lawless tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and a US Special Operations training program for Pakistans tribal defence force has largely ended.

Pakistan has also withheld visas from CIA and military personnel.

http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/16/us-pakistan-security-ties-hit-new-low-report.html

 

[sangeen]

Ajeeb bat hae en ko 100s drone attacks aur kai baar ki NATO choppers ki gustakhion par ghussa nahi aya aur Abbotabad/Osama drama par en ki gherat ko laal mirch ka tarka lag gaya..... kher der ayad drust ayad..... en Americans ke chichak zada chehre par thookne ka ye behtareen waqt hae....... bas thori qurbani chahie, $$ na batorne ki.....

 

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[rakeem]

Drone attacks are happening due to a secret agreement, where this bloody coward dollar loving Na*Pak army which is in the tank for the US, is allowing US to bomb and murder part of its country and civilians. In history, like the East pakistan massacre, this har**mkhor army will make us look like supporters of this genocide committed against its own countrymen. These bas*ards made a world record of surrendering the most no. of soldiers, now they are going towards another record in recording biggest massacre against our own countrymen.