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Dear Readers,
While All Things Pakistan has remained alive and online, it has been dormant since June 11, 2011 - when, on the blog's 5th anniversary, we decided that it was time to move on. We have been heartened by your messages and the fact that a steady traffic has continued to enjoy the archived content on ATP. While the blog itself will remain dormant, we are now beginning to add occasional (but infrequent) new material by the original authors of the blog, mostly to archive what they may now publish elsewhere. We will also be updating older posts to make sure that new readers who stumble onto this site still find it useful.
We hope you will continue to find ATP a useful venue to reflect upon and express your Pakistaniat. - Editors
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Where you see hope in the spirited questions of the students, we in the West despair at their hostility.
Pakistan never let’s a good deed from a friend go unpunished. The US has pitched in more in aid and arms into Pakistan than any other nation. Yet, the hostility of Pakistanis has gotten worse not better.
China makes token gestures and sells (not donates) arms and is considered an ‘all weather’ friend.
Should we the invest conclude from this that the way ahead to speak loudly, invest almost nothing and make sure we sell not give away weapons to Pakistan?
Good comments by @Kamran S. M and @Harry Putter!
Yes, where is the great Chinese with their loads of foreign exchange reserves?! A mere $198 million into Gwadar Port’s initial development and a few power plants and other ‘business’ deals (usually not harmful to the Chinese businesses) are peanuts compared with how much the Pakistani economy is dependent upon the West. And that after at least 40 years of Pak-China close-friendship.
Numbers are helpful in making facts. Math is perhaps the only near-absolutist force.
About Hillary’s trip, there is nothing Americans can do to pull a paranoid nation away from its best leisurely activity: Conspiracy Theory. I just came back from Pakistan (3 days ago) and there was a widespread belief that the Talibans are supported by Americans. When I asked as to what would Americans gain by arming the Talibans when they could cross the border into Afghanistan and kill (very precious) American soldiers there were no answers. When I asked as to what would Pakistanis say if Americans again ‘desert’ Pakistanis with the Afghanistan problem (ala 1989)–leaving the region is a big option in American debate now–there are no answers.
If you want to know what Pakistan should do then read the Dawn’s columnists at http://www.dawn.com . Too bad, they are a minority in a sea of hollow patriotism and over-religiosity.