With friends' like Pakistan, who needs enemies?

Dismissing American objections, Pakistan has signed an agreement to run a natural-gas pipeline from Iran, spreading glee among the mullahs in Tehran. Pakistani officials, including Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, offered low-key objections to the American complaints, but other Pakistanis loudly broadcast their disdain for the United States.

Former Punjab Gov. Shahid Hamid called the American concern "an insult to our independence and sovereignty," while former Foreign Minister Mian Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri said "we should not compromise at all as far as our basic interests are concerned."Read more: With friends' like Pakistan, who needs enemies?‎