Pak warns US, says will review options if Obama not patient

[cosmicone]

Source: Times of India

WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI: President Barack Obama's Day One in office turned out to be more than eventful for South Asia, and Pakistan in particular.
Obama made it clear to Pakistan on Wednesday that there were no free lunches US non-military aid to it would go up, but all of it depends on its performance in the fight against terror.

Even as New Delhi paused to analyse this new message contained in Obama's policy agenda, a rattled Pakistan hit back by warning the US that "if the Obama administration didn't adopt a positive policy" towards it, Islamabad would "review all options", which was seen as a thinly-guarded threat to pull out of the fight against Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

Obama's strong view on Pakistan's less-than-honest approach towards terrorists both within its boundaries and outside is not unknown. In his campaign speeches, he had said that the US must be willing to strike al-Qaida targets inside Pakistan if Islamabad didn't act against them. The threat in the policy agenda is a follow-up to this.

The message was not lost on Islamabad. Pakistan's ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani told Geo TV, "Pakistan hopes that Obama will be more patient while dealing with Pakistan. We will review all options if Obama does not adopt a positive policy towards us. Bush was more inclined to Pakistan. Obama should hear us out. He must pay attention to other factors in the region."


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Finally, Pakistan's blackmailing game is up. Pakistan could fool the chimp and conde but it would neither be able to fool the shrewd and streetwise Obama nor the clever and cunning Hillary Clinton.

Pakistan's "other option" is to go to China but China has already turned Pakistan down and China is already scared stiff that Obama may slap 100% tariff on Chinese goods to resurrect American manufacturing to help the economy, so it is unlikely that China would help Pakistan either.

Obama rules!!

[JCMach1]

1. They can also go to Russia for arms- we cannot even begin

to win Afghanistan without Pakistan on our side... Obama needs to tread carefully.


It also raises the specter of proxy Russian aid to the Taliban... Putin might want nothing more than to humiliate the West in the same way Russia was in Afghanistan.

[cosmicone]

2. Russia won't ever help Pakistan.

India is Russia's largest export market.

Furthermore, Russia just signed a mutual defense and cooperation treaty with Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai. Russia does not want Pakistani export of Islamization of its former republics to cause trouble.

[DUlover2909]

3. LOL, it's always and forever about the money, every time.

Kinda sad, but it's the world we're in.

[Gman]

4. Always has been about the money as far back in history as you want to look

And it always will be.

[Blue State Bandit]

6. Russia has opened supply routes to US forces...

thru Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan for non-lethal shipments.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia...

Russia has chosen a side. Pakistan is becoming isolated.

[IsItJustMe]

5. Very interesting situation developing in our relationship with Pakistan. The US is already looking

into using alternative routs for delivery of weapons and support to our troops and the UN there. Looks like there are going to be some changes.

[nebenaube]

7. pffttt... the only option they have is to fall to the taliban

then once the taliban have access to the paki nukes we will be forced to obliterate them.

[tabasco]

8. This is what we get from eight years of Bush corruption and sucking up to dictators.

Shitholes like Pakistan "warning" us, when they harbor the people who attacked New York City on 9-11.

Fuck Pakistan and the horse they rode in on.

We need to get out of Iraq and start tackling our real enemies.

Bush fucked things up quite royally, making shithole dictatorships like Pakistan our "ally in the war on terror."

[jaybeat]

9. Obama: "Your patrons aren't in charge any more. Deal with it."

"I'm not about to let you fuel terrorism with one hand while you use the other to take billions of US dollars to "fight" it with the other. A endless, self-fulfilling conflict served my predecessors' purpose, but it doesn't suit mine."

I LOVE that man!

[FatDave]

10. "a thinly-guarded threat to pull out of the fight against Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan."

So, Pakistan's going to stop helping us fight Al Qaeda? What are they gonna do, provide safe haven to bin Laden or something?