History of Pakistan-US relation

Islamabad - U.S. Ambassador Cameron Munter said on Friday, many quiet achievements of Pakistan and America for over 50 years working hand in hand, the relationship between the two countries was marked by history.

"Few relationships haunted by history as the United States and Pakistan, I am often surprised by our shared amnesia -. There are episodes that we cling to select, but the commitments we choose to forget," said U.S. Ambassador in a statement issued by the United States Embassy here on the 50th anniversary of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Ambassador Munter said that "fifty years ago today, President Kennedy created the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)" to fulfill our moral obligations of the interdependent community of free nations "and" our financial obligations As a nation, no longer dependent on foreign loans. "

Ambassador Munter said in 1965, came to Dr. Norman Borlaug, who later won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to agricultural research in Pakistan to present its new range of high-yielding wheat.

"We worked with Lyallpur Rotary Club to support a program that gave each farmer one bushel of the new generation of seeds, if, when the harvest came, they returned the ball, so we can give someone other. Although modest in size, this little project Lyallpur in the green revolution, which in turn transformed a food deficit region of a grain-exporting countries, "he added.

In the 1960 and `70, a consortium of construction companies of the United States employ Pakistanis, Americans, British, Canadians, Germans and Irish have built two major dams Tarbela and Mangla with USAID and World Bank funding, the U.S. ambassador said, adding that "The feats of engineering - more complex than anywhere in the world at the time - once accounted for 70 percent of its power and made Pakistan a leading provider of clean energy. "