Snake in the backyard

Pakistan’s peace cheque is post-dated and issued on a bank in dubious health. It is buying time by pretending to seek better relations with India. Pakistan is going through troubled times. Opposition is mounting in the United States Congress to proposals by the Obama Administration for military and economic assistance to a country labelled as a ‘major non-NATO ally’ but recently characterised as nurturing a “snake in its backyard”. Americans increasingly allude to Pakistan as an ‘enemy’ rather than as a ‘friend’. An enterprising American journalist humorously describes Pakistan as a “frenemy” of the US.

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