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The way aheadUS-Pakistan relations are at a major crossroad. But, paradoxically, the recent floods providean opportunity to put the bilateral relationship on a firmer footing. It is also an opportunityto assist Pakistan significantly with its long-term economic development. Building on thegenerous aid package the Obama Administration had already offered Pakistan, the US—withthe biggest economy in the world—must take the lead and generously come to Pakistan’s helpin the long-term reconstruction of the country.Using the mechanism of ‘the Friends of Democratic Pakistan’, 37 the US must also urge othercountries to agree to the creation of a very substantial ‘Marshall Plan’ for the comprehensiverebuilding of the country. And while it will be difficult to convince other countries to contributegenerously, because of the still fragile state of the world economy and the negative imagePakistan has of being perceived as the epicentre of terrorism, it will be critical not to abandonPakistan in these very difficult times. It would be in no-one’s interest to see nuclear-armedPakistan so weakened economically that it is unable to fight effectively the growing jihadistinsurgency with which it is now confronted.However, in return for the international community’s generous help, led by the US, Islamabadwould have to abandon its short-sighted policy of supporting ‘good’ terrorists who mightbe considered useful in the long-term in the advancement of Pakistan’s national interests,whether in post-NATO Afghanistan or in Kashmir. As we have seen recently, some of these‘good’ terrorists have turned against their former controllers. But more importantly, Pakistan’scontinued support for some terrorists would automatically end KLB-related economicassistance, as stipulated in the act. So this is a unique opportunity for Pakistan and the USto turn the page and build a bilateral relationship which will be beneficial to the long-terminterests of both nations and the international community.Dr Claude Rakisits is Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies at the School of International andPolitical Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne. He is also the Academic Adviser and MA(Strategic Studies) program coordinator at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies,Australian Defence College, Canberra. He has researched, lectured and commented on Pakistanissues for almost 30 years.24
NOTES1. ‘Floods caused losses worth $43 billion: Gilani’, The Express Tribune, 2 September 2010.2. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remarks with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshifollowing the US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue, Islamabad, Pakistan, 19 July 2010.3. S.M. Burke, Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: a historical analysis, London: Oxford University Press, 1973,pp. 165-8.4. C.G.P. Rakisits, ‘National Integration in Pakistan: The Role of Religion, Ethnicity and the ExternalEnvironment’, PhD thesis, University of Queensland, 1986, p. 370.5. G.W. Choudhury, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Major Powers: Politics of a Divided Subcontinent,New York: the Free Press, 1975, p. 105.6. Choudhry, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, p.120.7. Rakisits, ‘National Integration in Pakistan’, p. 383.8. Rakisits, ‘National Integration in Pakistan’, pp. 390-3.9. L. Ziring, ‘Pakistan and India: Politics, Personalities and Foreign Policy’, Asian Survey, Vol. XVIII,No.7, July 1978, p. 723.10. Z.A. Bhutto, If I am Assassinated, Delhi: Vikas, 3rd ed., 1982, p.149. Despite substantial internationalappeals, Bhutto was executed on dubious charges in April 1979.11. Maya Chadda, ‘Reagan’s Strategy in South Asia’, India Quarterly, Vol. XXXVIII, Nos. 3-4,July–December 1982, p. 321.12. Far Eastern Economic Review, 11 December 1984, p. 18.13. US State Department , accessed 26 August 2010.14. US State Department.15. For a good discussion of the behind-the-scene discussions between American and Pakistani officialsabout Pakistan’s policy dilemma following 9/11 see: Zahid Hussain, Frontline Pakistan – the Strugglewith Militant Islam, New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, pp. 33-51.16. C. Christine Fair, Keith Crane, Christopher S. Chivvis, Samir Puri and Michael Spirtas, Pakistan – Canthe United States Secure an Insecure State?, Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 2010, p. 157.17. Fair, Pakistan – Can the United States Secure an Insecure State?, p. 151.18. Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, ‘Pakistanis Aided Attack in Kabul, US Officials Say’, New York Times,1 August 2008.19. As cited in Rajan Menon, ‘Pakistan’s dual policy on Taliban’, LATimes.com, 30 June 2010, accessed on 1 July 2010.20. For two good analyses of the Pakistan Taliban problem, see Ashok K. Behuria, ‘Fighting the Taliban:Pakistan at war with itself ’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 61, No. 4, December2007, pp. 529-43 and Guido Steinberg, Christian Wagner and Nils Wörmer, ‘Pakistan against theTaliban’, SWP Comments 8 (German Institute for International and Security Affairs), March 2010.21. Claude Rakisits, ‘Pakistan’s political cancer grows’, The Australian, 8 July 2010.22. Kathy Gannon, ‘Vengeful new militant group emerges in Pakistan’, AP, 5 July 2010.23. Gopal Ratnam, ‘US Vows to Make India “World Power”’, Defence News, 4 April 2005.24. Jonathan Paris, Prospects for Pakistan, London: Legatum Institute, January 2010, p. 55.25. US State Department.26. Fair, Pakistan – Can the United States Secure an Insecure State?, p. 177.27. Claude Rakisits, ‘Pakistan’s Military Riled by the Kerry-Lugar Bill’, World Politics Review, 9 October2009.25
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