VOA标准英语2012--Little Expected Out of US, Pakistani Spy Chief Talks

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Little Expected Out of US, Pakistani Spy Chief Talks

A year of frosty relations between Washington and Islamabad is beginning to thaw¹ after Pakistan reopened NATO supply lines into Afghanistan last month.

But analysts³ expect this progress to be short-lived, as Pakistan's military spy chief Lieutenant-General Zahir ul-Islam visits with CIA director David Petraeus. Both sides strongly differ on U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan and border security with Afghanistan. 

Washington refuses to stop using drones against militants⁵ in Pakistan or share the technology with Islamabad. At the same time, U.S. officials continue to pressure Pakistan to go after militant⁴ safe havens⁶ in its territory. Pakistan's Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said the United States has it wrong. 

"That border area which is controlled by the American forces, they should concentrate on that. As far as Pakistan is concerned, there is no safe haven," he said. 

Kaira says Afghanistan is where the militants have their safe havens. And the Pakistani military blames cross-border attacks from Afghanistan for killing⁷ more than 100 people in the past year. 

U.S. officials strongly disagree. They want Islamabad to tackle militants, such as the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network, believed to be based in Pakistan's tribal⁸ areas. They blame the group for brazen⁹ attacks in Kabul and eastern Afghanistan, like a June 1 attack on a U.S. base near the Pakistani border. The Haqqani network released this video of the assault online. It has not been independently verified. 

Ahmad Majidyar is an analyst² with the American Enterprise Institute. He said U.S. patience is running low as NATO prepares to pull combat troops out of Afghanistan in 2014. "If Pakistan does not take action against the Haqqani network sometime in the future, the United States will have to take unilateral action because it remains¹⁰ an existential threat to the Afghan government," he said. 

Majidyar says this action could take the form of more drone attacks or a commando raid, like the one that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin¹¹ Laden¹² in Pakistan. But he cautions that these responses could plunge¹³ U.S.-Pakistani relations to a new low.