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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

International Affairs – Key Readings

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the US Congress:
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/qUX4C8uahTQqqEz28mCNpN/Full-text-of-Narendra-Modis-address-to-the-joint-session-of.html

WSJ op-ed: Breaking the Pakistan-Taliban Alliance by ZALMAY KHALILZAD
KHALILZAD notes:
“My view was that Pakistan was playing a perfidious and dangerous double game and needed to be called on it. But because of factors such as the (actual or supposed) important Pakistani contribution to the fight against al Qaeda, Pakistan’s role as transit route for supplies to our troops in Afghanistan, and its own (however halfhearted) campaign against Pakistani Islamist extremists—senior U.S. officials either ignored evidence of Pakistani support for the Afghan Taliban or treated it as a cost worth tolerating. One result: Senior Taliban leaders were soon living openly in Pakistani cities like Peshawar, Karachi and Quetta….
The U.S. currently designates Pakistan as a “major non-NATO ally”—a status wholly inappropriate given that its current policy and conduct would better merit its inclusion on the State Department’s list of state-sponsors of terrorism.”