Pakistan is global migraine: Albright

NEW DELHI: The reality-challenged distinction between the role of the Pakistani government and terror freelancers operating out of its soil does not have many takers. Opinion makers in the West have been asserting that many elements, including terrorism, in Pakistan are causes of international worries.

A former top US official, Madeline Albright, has described India���s hostile neighbour as an ���international migraine���.

���...My own sense is Pakistan has everything that gives you an international migraine. It has nuclear weapons, it has terrorism, extremists, corruption, very poor and it���s in a location that���s really, really important to us. And now with this issue with India. So, I think that president Bush and the secretary of state, who���s on her way to India now, have a very big job ahead of them,��� said Ms Albright.

���And I also do think that the next president and the secretary of state are going to have to pay a great deal of attention to that combination of issues, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, that all fit together. That���s very important to the United States,��� she added.

Policy makers in the West, particularly the US, have been arguing that since India is emerging in many ways as Washington���s important ally as a strong regional counterweight to Russia, the policy direction should tilt toward India.