Mohsin Hamid examines our relationship:
For a decade … successive civilian Pakistani finance ministers have gone to Washington reciting a mantra of “trade not aid.” They have been rebuffed, despite a WikiLeaked 2010 cable from the US embassy in Islamabad strongly supporting a free trade agreement with Pakistan and citing research showing that such an arrangement would likely create 1.4 million new jobs in Pakistan, increase Pakistani GDP growth by 1.5 percent per year, double inflows of foreign direct investment to Pakistan, and (because Pakistani exports would come largely from textile industries that US-based manufacturers are already exiting) have “no discernible impact” on future US employment.
(Photo: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shakes hands with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar before their meeting on September 18, 2011 at a hotel in New York. Both are in New York for the upcoming United Nations General Assembly. By Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)
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