No two countries could be more obsessed about each other than India and Pakistan. The most buzzed about event last week among the capital’s diplomatic and strategic circles was the US-Pakistan strategic dialogue and speculation about the US offering a nuclear deal for Pakistan, known here as an arch proliferator.
The joint press conference of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was telecast live from Washington on many TV channels here. How can they even think of a nuclear deal for Pakistan?, asked an outraged Indian diplomat. It looks like the Obama administration has lost his moral compass, said a former foreign secretary who knows Washington D.C. power games too well. When Clinton politely fobbed off Pakistan’s request for a nuclear deal, saying it was a complicated issue, there was a sense of relief and glee here. Sibling rivarly, did you say?
