The General gets Unpopular

May 2006 | Political Risk Analysis

After a relatively short-lived honeymoon period, relations between the US and Pakistan appear to be nose-diving again. In early May, US State Department Co-ordinator for Counter-terrorism Henry Crumpton said in Kabul that most of the Taliban and al-Qaeda leadership had found safe haven in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt that borders Afghanistan. While the US did not know where Osama bin Laden was hiding, the al-Qaeda leader was probably on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border, he said, adding that Pakistan is not doing enough to help root out Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders.

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