Haqqani urges US to take tougher line on Pakistan

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Former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani, has urged the American government to take a tougher line on Islamabad. "Pakistan ends up behaving like Syria while wanting to be treated like Israel," Haqqani told a large number of journalists, think tankers, opinion makers and government officials at a luncheon in Washington held by the Center for the National Interest. "And the behavior change is not going to come unless and until there is behavior change on your part.
So you should stop the meddling. "¦ You have to stop going in and seeing all our politicians and thinking they are all your friends and trying to influence. "Make Pakistanis realize that America has an interest in Pakistan, but you know what, America respects Pakistani opinion. Show respect for Pakistani public opinion. And if Pakistanis don't want to be your friends, you don't want to be their friends, thank you very much." Haqqani, who recently returned to the United States to become director of the Center of International Relations at Boston University, was removed as Pakistani ambassador late last year after facing charges that he sought US help to prevent a military coup in Pakistan in the wake of the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden. But Haqqani's essential argument at the luncheon was that America and Pakistan should no longer put up the pretense that they are allies. Haqqani said that it is unrealistic to believe that "endless discussions and chats and what I call the class of narratives will somehow, some day produce a change of thinking either in Washington or Islamabad." The US isn't going to be convinced to treat India as an enemy for Pakistan's sake and Pakistan won't be convinced to give up its nuclear weapons or end its support for jahadi groups it sees as strategically beneficial for "regional influence" because America wants it to, he said. "So the future of US-Pakistan relations is what I call a post-alliance future," Haqqani explained.
"Now stop thinking of each other as allies. That will give Pakistan flexibility in terms of being able to do certain things which may or may not be approved by the United States, but the people in Pakistan who always claim our sovereignty is most important, they will be able to exercise that sovereignty, but then they will also have to bear the responsibility for that sovereignty." America, in turn, will be freer to institute more coercive measures against Pakistan, Haqqani said. "I am nowadays proposing that it is time for both countries to recognize that the convergence in interest that is needed for two countries to be allies does not exist at this point," Haqqani further explained, adding that such relationship between the US and Pakistan wouldn't mean the two couldn't "work together in areas we can work together."
Haqqani also said Pakistan needs to form a commission to thoroughly investigate who knew al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan, because "somebody knew."
"It is Pakistan's responsibility to the world to say who did it? Who? Doesn't matter. It doesn't have to be the government, it doesn't have to be the ISI, it doesn't have to be the military and I say that again and again. It may be private individuals. But whoever it is, we need to come clean on that because that is the only way we will reassure the rest of the world that the Pakistan government and the Pakistan state has its hands clean in relation to this whole thing."

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Result of foreign passport holder in Pakistan:lol::lol::lol::lol:


BTW why this guy does not look like arabs???????:taunt1::taunt1::taunt1::taunt1:
 

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Wow. Who would've thought that he'll talk so freely and surprisingly. I guess being free of heavy responsibility government desk did wonders to him.
It is ironic that despite of so many voices seeing the truth bare, US Govt. is still courting Pakistan.
The more stable and prosperous Afghanistan becomes, lesser leverage Pakistan will have on US. Perhaps that is the key for them.

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Now i understand when one country qualifies in the failed country group.
Among many things,if your ex-ambassador starts crticzing their own country in another country,then that's a bonus point to qualify the failed country list.
 

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He was always critical of Pakistani Army and that's why he got ousted from his ambassadorship. He wrote the book "Pakistan:Between Mosque and Military" where he claims that US was on the verge of declaring Pakistan as a terrorist state in late 1990s.
 

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He is not criticizing literally. He is only taking a soft side towards the Americans and trying to make it look like constructive criticism of Pakistan.
But I think it shows he's hurt and wants to pay back :p
 

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He is not criticizing literally. He is only taking a soft side towards the Americans and trying to make it look like constructive criticism of Pakistan.
But I think it shows he's hurt and wants to pay back :p
Or he could be one of those rare things in this world, an honest man, or something even rarer an honest Pakistani.
 

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Result of foreign passport holder in Pakistan:lol::lol::lol::lol:


BTW why this guy does not look like arabs???????:taunt1::taunt1::taunt1::taunt1:
may be he is born for Indian blood, not Arab blood.....
 

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