[R-G] Obama Says Pakistan Used U.S. Aid to Prepare for War against India

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Especially when it comes to Pakistan, Obama is as dangerous as Bush
and McCain.  He only encourages the Indian Right. -- Yoshie

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Pakistan: Now or Never?
Perspectives on Pakistan

September 6th, 2008
Obama says Pakistan used U.S. aid to prepare for war against India
Posted by: Myra MacDonald

Senator Barack Obama has accused Pakistan of misusing U.S. military
aid meant to help it fight al Qaeda and the Taliban to prepare for war
against India. In an interview with Fox News [LINK:
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,417563,00.html>] he also says the
United States must put more pressure on Pakistan to crack down on
Islamist militants, hold it accountable for increased military
support, and be prepared to act aggressively against al Qaeda; "if we
have bin Laden in our sights, we target him and we knock him out," he
says. However he adds that "nobody talked about some full-blown
invasion of Pakistan."

The latter part of his comments is not that new, nor indeed that
different from the policies of the current U.S. administration. But it
is his comment about India that has been seized upon by the media in
South Asia. "We are providing them military aid without having enough
strings attached. So they're using the military aid that we use, to
Pakistan, they're preparing for war against India," he says.

You can see the stories in The Times of India and Dawn here [LINK:
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pak_misusing_US_aid_against_India/articleshow/3449772.cms>]
and here [LINK: <http://www.dawn.com/2008/09/06/top8.htm>].

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Obama's charge against Pakistan serious: BJP

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday said the United
States presidential nominee Barack Obama's charge against Pakistan was
a serious issue and the Manmohan Singh government should take it up
with the Pakistan High Commissioner here.

Mr. Obama had accused Pakistan of misusing American aid for preparing
for a war against India.

BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said it was known that terror
attacks in Kashmir had increased recently and Bangladesh had become
the new nerve centre for Islamic fundamentalists. Now Mr. Obama had
made a specific charge against Pakistan.

Now that Asif Ali Zardari had been elected Pakistan President, the
government must take up the issue and point out that in an agreement
with India, Pakistan had said it would not allow its territory to be
used for terrorist activity against New Delhi. Pakistan must implement
that agreement, Mr. Prasad said.