You advised of the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Youre now professor at Boston University and the director of the south and central asia institute. You write ostensibly for the new york times, the wall street journal, the International Tribune to name a few of the publications. So you obviously have an inside view of this relationship. And i think just the title is a strong indictment of u. S. Policy towards pakistan. And in your words if i may quote, you said the u. S. Pakistan relationship, a tale of exaggerated expectation, broken promises and disastrous misunderstandings. I want to delve into what you mean by that a little later in the interview but first i want to ask you a simple question. What motivated you to write this book . As this book has been on my mind for many years i went to college in 1979 when several of my colleagues i was in karachi in the south of pakistan but my colleagues as students in islamabad burned dow turned dow. Embassy and people at karachi also wa