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Pakistan wants U.S. "'trust", drones, market access
Thu Oct 8, 2009 12:10am EDT
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As President Barack Obama discusses the U.S. strategy toward Pakistan with his top advisers Wednesday, Pakistan's foreign minister appealed for market access, military technology -- and above all, trust.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi dismissed concerns that expanded U.S. aid to Pakistan had too many strings attached, but said the country's wobbling economy needed more, in particular access for its goods to Western markets.
"The challenge we face is far larger than that," he told Reuters. "We are not asking for you to keep doling out money and aid, we are asking for greater market access."
"Better trade with the European Union and the U.S. can help our economy stabilize."
Obama has said that increased aid and trade will be tools he plans to use to fight Islamic extremism both in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.
Congress has just approved a bill tripling aid to Pakistan to $1.5 billion a year for the next five years, but with conditions attached that have unleashed a storm of protest from Pakistanis who complain the country is being humiliated.
A bill sought by Obama to boost trade by establishing special economic zones in Pakistan and Afghanistan has stalled in the U.S. Senate, partly over concerns about labor standards as well as worries within the U.S. textile industry.
Obama also turns to Pakistan Tuesday as he holds the third in series of meetings to review his Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy.
High on the agenda will be how far to trust Pakistan's shadowy military intelligence agency, the ISI, widely accused of supporting radical Islamists including the Afghan Taliban.
Qureshi dismissed those charges and professed ignorance of the whereabouts of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who Washington says is sheltering in the Pakistani city of Quetta.
The United States, he said, needed to have a little bit more faith in the immensely powerful ISI.
"If you keep doubting them, and don't expect them to cooperate with you, that's a contradiction," he said. "Either trust them or don't trust them. Don't have one step forward, two steps backward."
PAKISTANI PROTESTS PROMPT US LAWMAKER RETORT
But even as Qureshi spoke of the need for trust, an influential U.S. lawmaker reacted angrily to Pakistani protests over conditions in the U.S. bill tripling development aid to Pakistan.
Democratic Representative Gary Ackerman, who chairs the House of Representatives foreign affairs subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, responded after Pakistan's army said it had concerns about the aid bill and opposition politicians called it humiliating. Continued...
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