Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Rick Barton, codirector of the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Deadly U.S. Airstrike Worsens Ties with Pakistan."
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Rick Barton, codirector of the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Deadly U.S. Airstrike Worsens Ties with Pakistan."
U.S. airstrikes into Pakistan that might have accidentally killed allied fighters have upset the fragile relations between Washington and Islamabad over how to stem violence in the lawless border region.
Rick Barton, a Pakistan expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the incident comes at a bad time, when the new Pakistani government is already overwhelmed trying to find its way.
"It could easily be used as a provocation for some of the groups that are most anti-American and are outside the government as well," he said.
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