US to end 'incoherent' Pakistan policy

Map locating Pakistan's nuclear facilities at Rawalpindi and Dera Ghazi Khan, showing signs of expansion according to analysts at the Institute for Science and International Security. AFP Graphics

Promising to end "incoherent" US policy towards Pakistan, the Obama Administration has sought "very clear and transparent" ties between the two countries.
Acknowledging that the US is responsible for the current mess in Pakistan as it quietly walked away from the country after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Obama administration's policies towards Islamabad would be qualitatively different.
"I think when we ask the question it is fair to apportion responsibility to the Pakistanis. But it's also fair for us to ask ourselves what we have done and how we have done it over all these years? And what role did we play in the situation that the Pakistanis currently confront?" she told reporters.
She was replying to a question on the billions of dollars that have been given to Pakistan in the past, but which have not yielded desired results for the US.
"I think that it is fair to say that our policy toward Pakistan over the last 30 years has been incoherent," She said, adding that she did not know any other word to use.