NEEDED FOR PAKISTANI AND AMERICAN RELATIONS---A MARRIAGE...

Islamabad: For more than sixty years, the US-Pakistani relationship has veered between despair and euphoria. In a very social sense, the two states could be characterized as an aging married couple occupying very distant parts of a large, deteriorating house whose plumbing, electrics and phone systems are in disrepair and who are at a loss on how to interact to fix both their relationship and their living conditions. In essence, something between a marriage counselor and a plumber is sorely needed to improve this complex relationship.