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A- The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Region after September 11 No other region in the world has been so deeply affected by the ramifications of the attack than the ECO region, where one country's regime was toppled as a consequentto the event, (Afghanistan's Taliban regime), one country totally mobilized to cater to demands to enforce the policies of the United States in the region (Pakistan), One country offering personnel assistance to the American campaign in Afghanistan {Turkey - Turkish forces did not take part in the fighting, but the offer itself is of significance), one country coming under renewed attack due to its influence in the region and especially in Afghanistan, in order to deprive it of any role in post-Taliban Afghanistan and depicted by the U.
After September 11 attack, Pakistan was faced with a dilemma of keeping its influence in Afghanistan now that the Taliban regime has been described as an evil of terrorism by the United States and for that matter by the International community, with its atrocities becoming an open story and to find a niche for itself in the post-Taliban scene.
A two-track policy is in the offing, one to quickly build-up United States military capacity in Central Asia, and the second is to distance Iran from the states of the region and forcing the regional countries to choose their allies either with the so-called civilized world or with "the axi.