tricked by a recent deadly and strike by the us on the pakistani border pace jeffrey steinberg magazine executive intelligence review says strained relations are the inevitable result of u.s. policy for the printer what you've got to really go back and look at a longer period of time where the united states used and abused pakistan during the long period of the afghan war we basically facilitated the emergence of opium production heroin production all. kinds of criminalization we supported the rise of islamic fundamentalism i remember in the nineteen eighties and early ninety's that mujahideen were called freedom fighters now they're called islamic extremists so we really kind of. policies that contributed mightily to the weakening and destruction of pakistan and now we turn around and for the victims in the offended parties when it blows up in our face time now for a quick look at what else is making news around the world and we start in afghanistan where a string of attacks across the country killed dozens of worshipers as they mark the muslim festival of assura more than fifty shiites died in the capital kabul wh

and pakistan jeffrey steinberg see you had it through the news magazine executive intelligence review is on the line from our washington studio pretty good evening from the moscow as we were reporting pakistan's boycotting this key conference in afghanistan does that imply that they've completely closed the door to any further discussions with washington is that it. no it's not a complete closing of the door and in fact over the last several days secretary clinton defense secretary panetta everybody who has got a friend in the pakistani hierarchy has been working the phones trying to walk back from something that the pakistanis can't ignore it was a multi hour assault on border positions that were well defined were on all of the nato and u.s. and afghan government maps and so it's a significant incident but i think it's also indicative of a growing state of asymmetric irregular warfare that's been going on between the united states and pakistan coming in the context of plans as you indicated for a major drawdown of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan. some time by two thousand and fou