Since 9/11, the U.S. and Pakistan have collaborated on regional security issues.
However, the recent replacement of Pervez Musharraf by President Zardari and an impending change in the White House promise a new era of both opportunities and challenges.
Joeck, a leading expert on both South Asian and nuclear issues who served on the White House staff, will examine the U.S.-Pakistan relationship- The Commonwealth Club of California
Bio
Neil Joeck
Neil Joeck is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
He served from 2004 to 2005 as Director for Counterproliferation Strategy at the National Security Council. Dr. Joeck was primarily responsible for India and Pakistan proliferation issues, but also worked on the Bush-Putin Bratislava summit, the Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference, and Department of Homeland Security and multilateral regime (CWC, BWC, MTCR) issues.
From 2001-2003, he was a member of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State, where he was responsible for the India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and nuclear proliferation portfolios. He received the Meritorious Honor Award, and the Policy Planning staff the Superior Honor Award, for work on Afghanistan following September 11.
A bit biased on its opinions. Contains Self-reached conclusions. India has refused to recognise the UN resolution recognising Kashmiri people's right choose who they want to live with. Even in recent elections, the main political leaders taking the political pathway (as wished by India) were under house arrest. Even today, mass graves of Kashmiris are being found and yet this day light robbery continues to go on.
About Pakistan, well it has been the worst victim of Terrorism, having lost the most amount of soldiers in the War against Terror and yet the West does not seem impressed. Today it sees its own major cities being the targeted as correctly stated in the video but rather than helping Pakistan, the critique of it continues which takes us away from targeting the root causes of the problem, namely lack of education, poverty and injustice. Pakistan was used before, as it is being used today.
Good to see the acknowledgement, although unexpected that Pakistan was left on its own after Russia was defeated.
Well, what I can not understand is "India being a threat to Pakistan". India has never gone and attacked Pakistan, it has always been Pakistan which has attacked India in 1965, 1971 and that sneak attack in 1999 in Kargil. Saying that sounds way too biased towards Pakistan.