Just when the Raymond Davis fiasco was subsiding the CIA launched a Drone attack on a tribal gathering of elders in the open on a bright sunny day. The rage and hate that this generated ensured that the Davis affair would never go away. Just when the US-Pakistan relationship was about to move forward the retiring US Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen decided to sing his swan song with the refrain that the ISI was a veritable arm of the Taliban thereby jump starting the convergence on ‘sticking it’ to the Pakistan military and the ISI— and the US media, already loaded for bear, declared open season on Pakistan. Just when there was a respite the US covertly recruited Pakistanis to work for it and then carried out a unilateral attack deep inside Pakistan to kill Osama bi Laden. Just when Pakistan had begun to cope with this situation there was the obviously deliberate and unprovoked more than hour long attack on a Pakistani border post killing 24 soldiers. Just as Pakistan began to reconsider the US-Pakistan relationship a US Congressman suddenly woke up to become the champion of what he called the ‘freedom struggle’ in what he called ‘Balukistan’. Finally even as Pakistan civil and military leaders were meeting the US proceeded to slap a $10 million bounty on a Pakistani head of a religious organization and then proceeded to admit that the man had not been indicted and that there was no actionable intelligence available to confirm that he was a terrorist. The fact that a US official made the bounty announcement in Delhi in a syrupy speech that endeared her to her Indian hosts made it a certainty that the bounty stratagem would be rejected by Pakistan.
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