American pressure

Letter March 04, 2012
I am happy that our foreign minister reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to the Pak-Iran pipleline project.

LAHORE: Your newspaper of March 2 carried a report quoting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton more or less warning Pakistan from going ahead with its planned pipeline project with Iran.

I am happy that our foreign minister reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to the project. It is obvious that America is bent upon punishing Iran only because Iran’s government refuses to follow the US line in the Persian Gulf region.


The fall of the Soviet Union and the tag of ‘sole super power’ have seriously eroded America’s ability to understand that the interest of other states are going to be aligned with it.


Sajjad Ashraf


Former ambassador


Published in The Express Tribune, March 5th, 2012.