On air at 1100GMT: Is the US Pakistan relationship damaged beyond repair?
| 10:09 UK time, Tuesday, 10 May 2011
This topic was discussed on World Have Your Say on 6 May 2011. Listen to the programme.
The relationship between the US and Pakistan has often been compared to a troubled marriage. A week on from the killing of Osama bin Laden under the noses, and seemingly without the knowledge, of Pakistan some people are suggesting the relationship is heading for breakdown. Some US lawmakers are Some commentators, like the Author Salman Rushdie say
It's not looking good. Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani announced an inquiry into how Bin Laden came to be hiding in "plain sight" then in the next breath exonerated its military intelligence service, the ISI - the body seen as most likely to have known about it.
The name of the CIA's station chief in Islamabad has also leaked - for the second time this year. That's being seen as ISI retaliation for its embarrassment over the night-time US raid.
in the Guardian newspaper claims US forces were given permission to carry out a raid inside Pakistan, if they knew where Bin Laden was hiding, without approval from the Pakistan govt.
Afterwards, both sides agreed, Pakistan would vociferously protest the incursion.
This claims -
" Mr. Obama's decision to increase the size of the force sent into Pakistan shows that he was willing to risk a military confrontation with a close ally in order to capture or kill the leader of Al Qaeda."
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Does the US need to be firmer with Pakistan or is it a relationship that both sides need to cultivate?
