US desire to use Pakistan against Communism

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/11/22/breakthrough-or-breakdown-u-s-pakistan-military-
alliance-of-1954/3/
paper NSC 5409, we find the
Further, in National Security Council

United States still thinking of South Asia in terms of the

international struggle against Communism. This
document lists American interests in the region: “Seek
greater participation of Pakistan in a common front
against communism … seek to insure that in the event of
general war Pakistan will make available manpower,
resources and strategic facilities for mutual defense
effort with the West . . . give special consideration to
Pakistan in providing military assistance.”[70] This theme of allying
with powers that did not welcome Communism exists in many American foreign policy documents of
the time. It is this preoccupation which led Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to say as a side note

“[t]he strong spiritual

in his address on his visit to the Subcontinent that

faith and martial spirit of the people [Pakistanis]

make them a dependable bulwark against
communism.”[71] Military assistance would ally America with Pakistan, ensuring that
potential Communist activities that are “spearheading an agrarian revolt which could well be led into
revolutionary channels and shake the stability”[72] of the regime be thwarted.

M.A.Jinnah Stating that Pakistan will a bulwark against Soviet aggression.

http://www.google.com.pk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%
3A%2F%2Froedad.com%2Fupdocs%2FPak%2520American%2520Affairs%2520AAmour%2520by%2520R
oedad%2520Khan.doc&ei=h_hjUKeWAcLRrQeG-oE4&usg=AFQjCNEeuxjVdEJlTX7XmkPzhnWhI_yV3Q

On May 1, 1947, Quaid-I-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah received two American visitors at his
Bombay residence. They were Raymond A. Hare, Head of the Division of South Asian Affairs,
Department of State, and Thomas E. Weil, Second Secretary of the US Embassy in India. He
sought to impress the emergence of an
on his visitors that

independent, Sovereign Pakistan would be in

consonance with American interests. Pakistan,
as a Muslim country would be a bulwark
against Soviet aggression. Mr. Jinnah coupled the danger of Soviet
aggression with another menace that Muslim nations might confront. That was “Hindu

The establishment of Pakistan, Mr. Jinnah told the

Imperialism”.

Americans, was essential to prevent the expansion

of Hindu imperialism into the Middle East.