"Had
it been up to this nation's people who hold their self-respect in the highest regard,
Islamabad would have spurned this demeaning aid package with all the scorn it deserves,
as would proud people all over the world."
Percieved as unsympathetic, Richard Holbrook, the Obama Administration's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is wildly unpopular on the Pakistani street.
Pakistan senators may have
huffed and puffed, but they are under a sweet delusion if they think our ruling
hierarchy will act on their suggestions and bluntly tell the Americans to either
take Pakistan off the list of nations whose nationals are to be strip-searched
at American airports or face the consequences of having us mete out the same
treatment of their own people in Pakistan.
How can senators expect bold
action from leaders who have turned cringing and scurrying into an art form
and have introduced to the world a new style of diplomacy involving surrender,
subservience and slavery? The hierarchs of Islamabad may have spoken of this
American indignity inflicted on Pakistan by Richard Holbrooke, the Obama Administration's
anointed regent for Pakistan and Afghanistan. And Holbrooke may have promised to
take up our complaints with the relevant officials back in America, as we're
being told by the flacks of our leaders. But one must be a fool living in a
fool's paradise to think anything will come of it and that Holbrooke will act
on his promise.
Indeed, how can one hope for
better from alien lords who feel no compunction about writing the most
humiliating conditions like those in the Kerry-Lugar
aid bill? Not even the petty rulers of a banana republic would
accept such language. Yet our own leaders felt no qualms about lapping it up
rather proudly.
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It was the people of Pakistan
who took umbrage and protested vociferously and furiously. Indeed, the folks in
Washington were taken aback by this public uproar, so accustomed are they to
dealing with this nation's hierarchs, always bending, crawling and prostrating slavishly
before them. And they [the Americans] were livid. Take it or leave it, they hubristically
fumed. Had it been up to this nation's people who hold their self-respect in
the highest regard, Islamabad would have spurned this demeaning aid package with
all the scorn it deserves, as would proud people all over the world.
But unfortunate as they are to be
saddled with hierarchs who know nothing of national honor, Pakistanis weren't
spared this disgraceful humiliation. Our hierarchs accepted this stinking aid package
with all of its insulting conditions with bundles of thanks for the American
lords. Although this nation should be no pushover, if for no other reason than
it's a declared nuclear power, for the past decade or so it has been treated
like dirt by the American lords and their Western buddies - all thanks to
Islamabad's hierarchs.
Even as the U.S. rhetorically
touts Pakistan as an ally and frontline state in its spurious "war on
terror," it has practically labeled our nation with the status of valet
and foot soldier. And even though India is no such frontline state in their
war, Washington has catapulted New Delhi into a real partner, decisively embedding
it in Afghanistan. This leaves India free to launch sinister adventures to
incite and fuel subversion, insurgency and militancy in parts of Pakistan to eventually
destabilize it.
And while, ostensibly, America
cites legal obstructions to deny Pakistan vital military hardware such as
helicopters, fighter planes, night-vision goggles and sophisticated
communication equipment, so as not to anger India, Washington has dismantled every
legal obstacle to arranging a nuclear sales deal with that nation. And even as
they hold up our tribal region as critical to this "war on terror,"
their long-standing promise to shell out $900 million to set up reconstruction
opportunity zones in these areas remains just a promise. They haven't even passed
the necessary legislation to make real this promise from 2005.
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And yet our Islamabad
hierarchs continue to feel ingratiated with their American lords, whose acts of
omission and commission have made us such bleeding quarry for terrorism and
militancy. Yes, we have a money problem - and a dire
one at that. But can't we manage it on our own, without foreign aid that comes
all laced up with degrading conditions that portrays us as a nation of thieves,
cheats and swindlers? Are we all paupers? Aren't the stars shining on
our political landscape among the world's richest people? Don't these sultans,
having parceled out this land into their own personal sultanates, have their
coffers bulging with treasure? If they would all bring the money they have
stashed in foreign banks and in their personal vaults to lend to the national
treasury - not for free but with interest - the nation could easily tide itself
over these financial difficulties. And with that interest-bearing money, they could
build many more steel mills, acquire more palaces and chateaux, expand their
real estate businesses and construct more five-star hotels overseas.
But all they know of is robbing
and plundering this nation - not helping it.
