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New York, April 20(ANI): The United States does not care about Pakistan at all, and Washington’s policy towards Islamabad might benefit it only accidentally since that is not the actual purpose, renowned scholar and author Professor Noam Chomsky has said.

“The US doesn’t care about Pakistan, just like the Reagan administration didn’t care about either Afghanistan or Pakistan,” The Express Tribune quoted Chomski, as replying, when asked how he sees the relationship between both nations.

“They supported Zia[ul-Haq], the worst dictator in Pakistan’s history, and pretended they didn’t know that Pakistan was developing nuclear weapons. So, basically they supported Pakistan’s nuclear weapon programme and radical Islamisation in their bid to defeat the Russians. And that has not helped Pakistan,” he added.

According to Chomsky, the Pak-US relationship has failed to work so far because the concern of US planners is not the welfare of Pakistan, but the welfare of their own constituency.

“But it’s not the people of US either, just the powerful sectors within the US,” he said, adding, “If the US policy towards Pakistan happens to benefit Pakistan it would be kind of accidental. Maybe it will to some extent, but that is not the purpose.”

Chomsky, who serves as Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University, also pointed out that Pakistan has serious internal problems, adding that they have to be solved from within instead of from outside.

“These problems have to be dealt with inside Pakistan, and not by the US; providing them with massive military aid, carrying out drone strikes, which enrages the population rightly,” he said.

“Drone attacks are target assassinations and therefore a crime. Whether they are militants or not, these people are being targeted because the US doesn’t like them. Targeted assassination is an international crime. United Nations’ special rapporteur Philip Alston, a very respected international lawyer, came out with a report which simply says that it is a criminal act,” he added. (ANI)