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Article: US-Pakistan relations amid growing security – 8th October 2009
The article I have chosen was written by an Indian Research scholar and is concerned with the recent announcement of an increase in aid to Pakistan, to $1.5 billion. It criticises the US influence in Pakistan and suggests that there is lack of trust between the two nations with America trying to exercise control over the country by imposing conditions on the use of the aid to suit its own ends. It gives a strong view that the Pakistani people see the US as the enemy (a recent poll says that 64% of Pakistanis feel this way) and that this aid is used in a bullying way. It appears that the comments relate also to the relationship between Pakistan and India – historically a volatile relationship.