What India Needs from U.S.

With public attention focused on reports of a possible repeat of the 26/11 terrorist strike and China's melodramatics on the Dalai Lama's visit to Tawang, one should not forget that - given the importance of Washington's relations with Beijing and Islamabad -the future course of events in our neighbourhood will be significantly influenced by understandings reached during Manmohan Singh's November 24 state visit to Washington.

The Obama administration is now finding that its relations with our neighbours are going to be more complicated than it earlier imagined. Hectored by Pakistani officials about alleged shortcomings in US policies, despite the unprecedented level of American military and economic assistance to Pakistan, an irate Hillary Clinton recently accused Islamabad of sheltering Osama bin Laden.