Abstract
After the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, most of Al-Qaeda's top leadership fled to Pakistan's tribal areas, particularly to North and South Waziristan. Al-Qaeda started using these rugged and mountainous areas to recruit, train, and equips its members to attack the United States homeland and its forces in Afghanistan with the help of the local people. One of the key objectives of the United States’ re-engagement with Pakistan after 9/11 was to strategically defeat Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Before 9/11, Pakistan was under the United States’ economic and military sanctions due to the nuclear explosion in May 1998 and military coup in October 1999. The United States had made seven demands of Pakistan about Al-Qaeda. Pakistan’s responses to the United States’ demands against AlQaeda are ranked more satisfactory than cooperation on Afghan and Pakistani Taliban. The key factor that did not allow meeting the US demands in totality in the war against the Taliban and AL-Qaeda was Pakistan policy elite’s suspicions of the US commitment to Afghanistan.
Dr. Fida Bazai1, Abdul Qadir2, Dr. Mirwais Kasi3. (2019) Pakistan's as US Sceptic State, Balochistan Review, Volume 2, Issue 2.
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