Epstein Secrets

[15] to reduce its vulnerability to an Indian or U.S. first strike. Providing the Saudis with their nuclear deterrent would significantly increase Islamabad's EFTA00707093 vulnerability to such a first strike. It defies logic to think that Islamabad would accept this risk simply to uphold promises for

uld purchase future nuclear weapons. After all, the U.S. has provided Pakistan with billions of dollars to fight terrorism since 9/11, and it found bin Laden living in an off-campus mansion outside Pakistan's military academy. The Saudis have similarly struggled to use turn their financial assistance to

r in the Middle East. The kingdom's closest ties remain with Pakistan. The Pakistani press has reported that Riyadh provided a $1.5 billion loan to Islamabad to help Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's effort to get Pakistan's economy out of its slump. The Saudis have a close relationship with Sharif, who live

He has had some success— notably in killing Osama Bin Laden and in initiating negotiations with Iran that co

ving that his cousin was innocent, and not involved in any insurgent activities, Tariq joined a group of tribal elders last October at a meeting in Islamabad organized by Reprieve, the human rights group. Neil Williams, a volunteer for Reprieve, spent an hour speaking with Tariq at the meeting. "We star

bout drone strikes that have successfully taken out enemy combatants in the War on Terror. The RQ- 170 Sentinel was deployed in the raid that killed bin Laden, and U.S. officials boast of eliminating two more of Al Qaeda's top operatives in Pakistan in recent months. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has cal

articularly the Obama administrations have emphasized the war against al-Qaeda to such an extent that the U.S.-Pakistan alliance is in tatters. Now Islamabad's very stability has come into question. It is good to hear from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and other senior officials that al-Qaeda and the

. troops had finally killed Osama bin Laden. Nevertheless, these triumphs have come at demonstrable cost. There was perhaps no reliable way to kill bin Laden without grievously offending Pakistan's government and people, though a senior administration official has admitted that the United States "underes

articularly the Obama administrations have emphasized the war against al-Qaeda to such an extent that the U.S.-Pakistan alliance is in tatters. Now Islamabad's very stability has come into question. It is good to hear from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and other senior officials that al-Qaeda and the

. troops had finally killed Osama bin Laden. Nevertheless, these triumphs have come at demonstrable cost. There was perhaps no reliable way to kill bin Laden without grievously offending Pakistan's government and people, though a senior administration official has admitted that the United States "underes

alth sources in Peshawar, the seat of both the tribal FATA Secretariat as well as the Provincial Govt, and official sources in the national capital Islamabad -- including by coincidence Dr Waqar Ajmal, the Pakistani technical focal point for polio at the Gates Foundation, who is based in Seattle but was v

"big families help jihad"); (v) after the Osama bin Laden raid in Abbotabad in May 2011, many clerics no lo

d two million refugees.2° In 1991-92 there were nearly three million. But the two countries have had different policies towards the Afghan refugees: Islamabad confined them to refugee camps. It gave the Pakistanis a better political control over those foreigners but made the latter totally dependent on in

my' to be opposed all the time. The goal of Osama bin Laden's organisation was to have its own routes out of

Barack Obama set his sights on reorienting the United States' relationship with Pakistan. For decades, Washington had been a fair-weather friend to Islamabad, eager to work together when its own security interests were at stake, but otherwise indifferent to Pakistan's domestic challenges. But recognizing

e campaign and the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden, nor is Islamabad's failure to take on difficult

alth sources in Peshawar, the seat of both the tribal FATA Secretariat as well as the Provincial Govt, and official sources in the national capital Islamabad -- including by coincidence Dr Waqar Ajmal, the Pakistani technical focal point for polio at the Gates Foundation, who is based in Seattle but was

"big families help jihad"); (v) after the Osama bin Laden raid in Abbotabad in May 2011, many clerics no lo

alth sources in Peshawar, the seat of both the tribal FATA Secretariat as well as the Provincial Govt, and official sources in the national capital Islamabad -- including by coincidence Dr Waqar Ajmal, the Pakistani technical focal point for polio at the Gates Foundation, who is based in Seattle but was

"big families help jihad"); (v) after the Osama bin Laden raid in Abbotabad in May 2011, many clerics no lo