Tag Archive | Pakistani
Pakistan Lobby in USA
During tensions in the region stemming from the nuclear tests and the Kargil war that followed, US politicians were deluded with correspondence from Indian Americans, a good percentage from the financially influential corners of the Silicon Valley. Indian Americans did all they could to convince the US administration of the rationale behind India’s going nuclear […]
Indian Americans in India-Pakistan relations
The period from 1998 has been one of upheavals in the regional political situation in South Asia. The tit-for-tat nuclear tests were followed the Lahore peace initiative by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif. But the Kargil incursion and the military coup that followed in Pakistan dashed the hopes of […]
Indian Americans fight USA’s ‘Pakistan Tilt’
By around 1980s, both Indian and Pakistani Embassies in the US started actively hiring professional lobbyists to put pressure on foreign policy related issues. One such firm, Neil and Co. was instrumental in the early 1980s in restoring US aid to Pakistan, despite its nuclear programme. The perceived sense of such a ‘Pakistan-tilt’ of US […]
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