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In the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, suspicion pervades U.S.-Pakistan relations. While Washington considers pulling aid packages, increases drone strikes in the tribal areas and moves American troops in Afghanistan eastward to the mountainous border with Pakistan, Islamabad arrests CIA informants this week allegedly responsible for aiding and abetting the U.S. spy agency in the weeks leading up to Osama’s death.

Since 9/11, the U.S.-Pakistan relationship has always been a prickly one, but the level of current distrust has risen to an all-time high. This is dangerous, not least because it portends the possibility of a substantial ramp-up in U.S. military intervention. In the last ten years, U.S. involvement has been relatively masked from the Pakistani public eye. 

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