After nine years of following U.S. policies and
guidelines in the war on terror, Pakistan has now started presenting
its conditions and demands in front of the U.S. to further any action
or engagement, Pakistani analysts said.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, in a recent
meeting with the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and
Pakistan Marc Grossman, asked for defined and documented terms and
conditions of engagements between the two countries so that any row
could be settled cordially, minimizing any dent to the bilateral
relations.
Experts believed that President Zardari did not call
any thing new or special but repeated what the country's intelligence
agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has been demanding of the
American CIA.
With this demand from Zardari, the rumors about the
suspected prevailing differences between the Pakistani military
establishment and civilian government also died, they said.
Negotiations between the two countries on the terms
of engagement in the war on terror started secretly after the emergence
of three controversial issues this year: case of Raymond Davis who
killed two Pakistani civilians, U.S. secret operation to kill al-Qaida
chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad and the suspension of 800 million
U.S. dollar military aid to Pakistan.
These three incidents pushed the relations between
Pakistan and the U.S. to their low rough patches and also caused the
widening of the trust deficit between the two countries. Xinhua
