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The “trust gap” between the U.S. and Pakistan widened this week as documents released by WikiLeaks [2] have raised questions about Pakistan's role in the Afghan war. Shuja Nawaz [3], Director of the Southeast Asia Center at the Atlantic Council [4] and a Ploughshares grantee, appeared on PBS NewsHour to provide context.
While he acknowledged that unofficial elements within Pakistan have always given support to the Taliban and some to Al-Qaida, Nawaz knows of no evidence connecting this support to the Pakistani government.
On the leaks, Nawaz says they add a lot of noise and confusion to the dialogue. "Despite the best efforts of policy-makers in the United States and in Pakistan to stay committed to the current path -which is that of collaboration and cooperation - there will be a lot of internal second-guessing. There will be a lot of soul-searching and seeing whether they have in fact connected all the dots, and is one side being duplicitous or is the other being duplicitous."
Links
[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/1964
[2] http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010
[3] http://www.acus.org/users/shuja-nawaz
[4] http://www.acus.org/
[5] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec10/pakistan3_07-28.html