With the United States urging Pakistan to shut down Lashkar-e-Taiba and stop sponsoring low-intensity conflict against India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's chat with President Barack Obama in Washington appears to have gone reasonably well. But the Indo-US relationship continues its flight through a patch of mild turbulence.
A growing sense among knowledgeable officials and policy analysts on the Indian side is that the Obama administration does not accord the same degree of special value to the India relationship as the George W Bush administration did during its second term. One reason why such a perception has gained ground may be the priorities that the Obama administration seems to have set for itself in Afghanistan.
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