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Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an by Husain Haqqani

By Husain Haqqani

The connection among the US and Pakistan is predicated on mutual incomprehension and continually has been. Pakistan—to American eyes—has long gone from being a unusual irrelevance, to a stabilizing good friend, to an important army best friend, to a seedbed of terror. America—to Pakistani eyes—has been a warrantly of defense, a coldly far away scold, an enthusiastic army enabler, and is now a chance to nationwide safety and a resource of humiliation.

The international locations usually are not simply at odds. every one believes it may well play the other—with occasionally absurd, occasionally tragic, effects. the normal narrative in regards to the warfare in Afghanistan, for example, has revolved round the Soviet invasion in 1979. yet President Jimmy Carter signed the 1st authorization to assist the Pakistani-backed mujahedeen covertly on July 3—almost six months prior to the Soviets invaded. americans have been informed, and prefer to think, that what was once Charlie Wilson’s warfare of Afghani liberation, with which they continue to be embroiled to at the present time. It used to be now not. It was once normal Zia-ul-Haq’s vicious local energy play.

Husain Haqqani has a distinct perception into Pakistan, his native land, and the United States, the place he used to be ambassador and is now a professor at Boston collage. His existence has mapped the connection of the 2 international locations and he has chanced on himself frequently on the subject of the guts of it, occasionally in very confrontational conditions, and this has allowed him to put in writing the tale of a misbegotten diplomatic love affair, the following memorably laid naked.

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In 1946 he told a conference in Cairo: “It is only when Pakistan is established that Indian and Egyptian Muslims will be really free. ”20 But arguments about a “Hindu imperialistic power” suffusing “the British imperialistic power” did not impress the Arab audience. ”21 ..... ”23 But outside the subcontinent’s inveigled context it meant little and moved few. Soon after independence Pakistan found that some Muslim countries chose to side with India once the Hindu-Muslim division was presented as a Pakistan-India conflict.

Evidently this technique was now to be extended into foreign policy. Not only the tension between the great powers but the Palestine situation as well held opportunities for profiting from the disputes of others. ”24 The Life reporter also found it strange that Pakistan’s leaders found time to comment on distant issues such as Palestine while ..... 22 9781610393171_Haqqani 8/21/13 10:51 AM Page 23 False Start there were serious difficulties at home: millions of refugees from India awaited settlement, there was little money in the treasury, and the emigration of Sikh and Hindu merchants out of Pakistan had resulted in a deficit of capital available for investment.

13 But the lukewarm British efforts at reconciling the Congress and the Muslim League between the end of the war in 1945 and until 1947 proved ineffective. The Congress leadership failed to guarantee safeguards acceptable to a majority of the Muslim elite. Even if the demand for Pakistan was initially a negotiating stratagem to ensure protections for the Muslim minority in a post-British India, the idea of it had moved millions of Indian Muslims into expecting a separate country. While devoting their energies to pleading for it, Muslim leaders had made no preparations for running that separate state.

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