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Pakistan world view clouded by India threat:
US
Tuesday April 03, 2012 10:24:02 AM,
IANS
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Washington: Pakistan's world view is clouded by a perception that they are
threatened by India resulting in very mixed messages from
Islamabad on fighting terrorism, according to US Defence Secretary
Leon Panetta.
"In some ways we share a common concern and a common threat," he
told CBC Television in an interview. "Terrorism is as much a
threat to Pakistan and the people of Pakistan as it is to us and
to the people of Afghanistan."
"But the problem is that they view their position in that part of
the world as one that is threatened, threatened by India,
threatened by others, threatened by ... concern about ... what
kind of position are they going to have for the future," Panetta
said.
"And as a result of that, sometimes we get very mixed messages
from Pakistan as to just exactly where they're going to be," he
said referring to the ups and downs in the US-Pakistan
relationship.
But in his view "it's an absolutely essential relationship,"
Panetta said suggesting, "frankly, you can't really have peace in
Afghanistan until we've been able to ensure that we have peace in
Pakistan with regards to the terrorists."
The US defence secretary said the US never told the Pakistanis
anything about the US before the May 2 raid on Osama bin Laden's
hideout in Pakistan because of concerns that information may be
leaked out.
"The concern we had is that, you know, we had provided
intelligence to them with regards to other areas and
unfortunately, for one way or another, it got leaked to the
individuals we were trying to go after," he said.
"So as a result of that we were concerned that if we were going to
perform a sensitive mission like this, we had to do it on our
own," Panetta said.
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