Recently, there were reports that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the US and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan are not exactly on friendly terms anymore. However, Pakistan's envoy to the US Husain Haqqani has come out with a statement saying that both countries are the best of partners in the war against terrorism.
The relationship between Washington (read CIA) and Rawalpindi (read ISI) is one that is hidden under several layers of veils. Nothing is really, what it seems when it comes to their intense and intimate relationship - they behave almost like lovers - quarrelling one moment and making up the next.
Pak envoy Haqqani enlightens us saying, ‘Just as there are people who don't want to believe the birth certificate of Barack Obama's even if it exists, similarly, there are people who don't want to believe that the ISI is a partner of the CIA. And that causes a lot of problems.’
The blow-hot, blow-cold affair between the US and Pakistan is nearly 60 years old. Washington had since the beginning, turned to trusted ally Rawalpindi in its times of need during the Cold War and thereafter.
Haqqani continues with the ‘truth’ in the Washington-Islamabad relationship, ‘The truth is that, in the last few months, we have really worked at bridging the gap. Last week, Pakistan's Foreign Secretary was in town. We had intense meetings. Ambassador Grossman, President Obama's new special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is headed to Pakistan.’
The Pak Army is very bitter about the fact that Washington uses it and then discards it when the moment of need is over. Yet, the Pak Army never says ‘no’ to Washington’s overtures and instead seeks to squeeze out the maximum benefit from its affair with the United States.
The US and Pak have a long and fulfilling record of a ‘relationship of convenience’. So we may safely ignore the public ranting earlier this month between Admiral Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the United States, and Gen. Kayani, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff.
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