Obama's Pakistan Connections
via The Last Refuge article "Obama’s Pakistan Connections – “Spiking a Ball” or “Sounding an Alarm”":
It turns out, however, that Barack Obama may have slightly deeper and
more personal connections to Pakistan. First, there is Barak Obama’s
mother living on and off in Pakistan for five years. It is quite clear
that Ann Dunham, Obama’s mother,
did indeed work and live in Pakistan as a consultant to the Asian
Development Bank (ADB), working on a project in Gujranwalla (here, here, here). A headline in the Daily Waqt that proclaims that “Obama’s Mother Stayed in Pakistan for 5 Years.” Here is the Daily Waqt report: (continue reading)
Please go read the entire article, there is so much more on Obama's Pakistan connections as well as “the largest cache’ of intelligence ever” and why information on the intelligence is being released when as the author notes it would 'normally be kept secret until fully vetted, analyzed, critiqued, and actionable items extracted'. Juicy stuff, go read it.
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A few (five we are aware of) of Obama’s closest friends live there Imad 
Husain (former college roomate 1979-80), Ali Hassan Chandio (Occidental College), Wahid Hamid (Occidental College), Sohale Siddiqi (New
York – Columbia College). Obama visited there numerous times. Obama
maintains close personal 30+ year connections with Pakistani friends
(they attended his wedding 1992, and campaign for him 2007-08). Obama’s mom worked and lived there from 1987 to 1992. Joe Biden has a connection there. Obama personally knows the former President of Pakistan Muhammad Mian Soomro, and indeed stayed at his house during a summer visit there in 1981 and still maintains a 30+ year friendship with him. So lets look at this angle a little deeper.
Most
Pakistanis seem to like President Barack Obama. However, for most,
President Obama’s “Pakistan Connections” were limited to (a) his rather strong words about Pakistan, including about sending troops into Pakistan, and (b) his choice of Vice President Joseph Biden, who has a long and deep interest in foreign affairs, including Pakistan. Most Pakistanis were/are not very fond of the first of these connections. The second connection they like, especially because Senator Biden was the key architect of a very generous and quite sensible support package for Pakistan.
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