http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/23/11827022-pakistan-jails-doctor-who-helped-cia-find-osama-bin-laden?lite Updated at 8:18 a.m. ET: PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden was convicted of high treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison on Wednesday.
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4) The US has grown closer to India. Most of this is just business. US trade with India is worth almost ten times what its trade with Pakistan is worth. Recently though the US has begun providing India with military technology, which normally indicates a slightly higher rate of trust. The $2 billion for Boeing for the C-17 and the US's spirited (though doomed) attempt at MMRCA indicate that the US is no longer overly suspicious of India, and is willing to let India have military technology equal to or superior to what they provide Pakistan. Part of it is money, the defense industry knows that India will be spending vastly more than Pakistan, and India already has signed more this year than Pakistan will all year. But there is no way Pakistan, which diverts money from fighting rampant Taliban groups in Pakistan to defend against India, likes the idea of India gaining even more advanced technology.
I don't see how the two countries can have the same goals. The US wants al-Qaeda and the Taliban gone, the ISI shut down, the nukes locked away somewhere safe, and to be able to sell defense goods to India. Pakistan doesn't seem to care about the Taliban (they don't fight if the US doesn't pay), they haven't shut down the ISI, they won't even tell the US how many nukes they have or what their security procedures are, and they don't seem to like the US selling top of the line weapons in bulk to India. Those aren't just minor differences, they're fundamental differences in how the US and Pakistan see the future.
But maybe you can find evidence that Pakistan's ostensible antipathy towards India is just a charade and that they really don't mind us selling to them, that they're secretly fighting the Taliban - all the Taliban - when nobody's watching, that they've already disemboweled the ISI, and that they're cooperating behind the scenes with the US on securing their nuclear arsenal. It's just that until I see that evidence, I can't believe that we share the same goals.
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