By Elaine Donnelly
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You know a friendship has gone sour when you start making mean jokes about your friend in front of his most bitter nemesis.
The decision to suspend more than one-third of American military aid to Pakistan could end up hurting Washington more than Islamabad as the United States seeks to navigate an end to the Afghan war and defeat al Qaeda, former Pakistani officials and analysts warned Monday.
The decision to suspend more than one-third of American military aid to Pakistan could end up hurting Washington more than Islamabad as the U.S. seeks to navigate an end to the Afghan war and defeat al Qaeda, former Pakistani officials and analysts warned Monday.
bemoaned the "roller-coaster relationship" between the two countries, as Pakistan repeatedly seesaws from being the "most allied of allies to the most sanctioned" one.
"It has taken on attributes and characteristics now of a near-adversarial relationship, even though neither side wants it to be that way," said Maleeha Lodhi, who was serving as Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S. at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and was key in hurriedly putting together the two countries' alliance.
"The longer Islamabad delays and dithers, the opinion in Washington is hardening," Ms. Lodhi said. "Time is the enemy of a reset in relations."
