Ambassador Chamberlin begins with giving her perspective on 9/11 and how she interacted with president Mosharaf in that era. She believes "Mosharaf saw domestic terrorism as the number one obstacle to developing Pakistan; that Pakistan was the victim of internal terrorism, and he would never be able to break this terrorism as long as the Al-Qaeda problem and Afghanistan persisted". Ambassador Chamebrlin then talks more about the relationship between Pakistan and USA right after 9/11.
On September 15, 2001, USA and Pakistan began a dialogue over terrorism. Pakistani president, Parvez Mosharaf, was careful not to make conditions although there were clearly understood to be conditions by USA. "It was a very productive exchange and negotiation that we got to yes very quickly," Ambassador Chamberlin says. For Pakistan, internal security was the major obstacle to attracting foreign investment and Pakistan needed foreign investment in order to develop the economy. "At no time did they ever consider any other threat but India to be the existential threat against Pakistan. They never fully accepted that there was not Pakistan's interest [having] a friendly government in Afghanistan ties to the Taliban," she continues.
