Why should Pakistan trust us?
28 July 2010
The Afghan ‘war leaks’ have revealed in stark detail the mistrust and tension that lies at the heart of the West’s relationship with Afghanistan and Pakistan. But this mistrust is not merely the product of a nine-year war, but of decades of economic control which have sewn the seeds of inequality, injustice and appalling governance across the Muslim world. Indeed for Western governments to lecture countries like Pakistan about democracy and stability, as David Cameron did this morning, must (...)