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Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in Foreign Policy on June 1st, 2011
Events back home have again compelled me to write about how our leaders and this time, even our
Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in Foreign Policy on May 30th, 2011
“America cannot and should not solve Pakistan’s problems, that is up to Pakistan,” she told reporters. “But in solving its problems, Pakistan should understand that anti-Americanism and conspiracy theories will not make problems disappear.”
Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in Foreign Policy on May 28th, 2011
The standard narrative of Pak-US relationship always goes back to Liaqat Ali Khan
Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in Foreign Policy on May 19th, 2011
In 63 years of ties with the US, Pakistan has received the short-end of the stick while nestling in the lap of the United States. Quaid-i-Millat made a great mistake by tying up Pakistan with a selfish nation like the United States. Pakistan had to face many crisis without US help. Pakistan also became a victim of crisis due to its alignment with the US. Recently, the 50th anniversary of pilot Gary Powers U2 flight from the Pakistan air field at Peshawar was remembered. When Gary Powers was shot down over USSR, the relationship between Pakistan and USSR (now Russia and a motherlode of minor republics like Tajikistan) soured, almost forever. Since, that time Russians, have always suspected Pakistan being in cahoots with the US, and most of the times they were correct. If, it had not been for the wisdom of Chairman Mao, Premier Chou En Lai, and the vision of late PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto; Pakistan would be extremely vulnerable to the bullying of its belligerent neighbour, India. US has followed this policy for 5 decades, except for times, like the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when US’s own interest were threatened, the US has shown an altruistic tilt toward Pakistan.
Pakistan’s relationship with the US has evolved into a co-dependency- leading to a toxic relationship. This has happened at the expense of bartering of Pakistan’s sovereignty and independence defacto. However, this was not long before the Abbotabad incident, which put this situation into perpective and gave Pakistani people a rude awakening . Pakistan has also suffered economically, politically, socially, and militarily due this malignant symbiosis. US has become a “soodkhor,” loan-shark. which turns the screws on Pakistan’s economy whenever, it wants Pakistan to do its bidding. This situation has been exacerbated by the weak and usurper government run by a former “Bambino Cinema blackiya,” a.k.a. Zardari and verbally challenged Gadhi Peer, a.ka. Gilani from Multan. In order to hang on to power, both these individuals have sold their souls to the devil, named Uncle Sam, who thrives on picking fights and inciting conflicts, whether in Europe, S.America, Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Pakistan.
Pakistani people have wised up to US shananigans, Raymond Davis and his 3000 sleeper cohorts in various cities of Pakistan to bribing of poor Pakistani to act as saboteurs against their own motherland, Pakistan is being destabilized by this two headed hydra, masquesrading as a friend.
Latest act duplicity is to nominate a Jew, Marc Grossman, as an arbiter between Indian and Pakistan. Well, Pakistan will most likely end up as a loser, with this so-called inbiased arbiter.
Hardly a day passes without news of a new missile attack by American drones on the tribal areas of north-west Pakistan. As these attacks are carried out by the CIA, no official figures are available, but the local press recorded 69 such attacks in 2009. Across the border in Afghanistan, the United States mounted 219 drone attacks in 2009, according to official U.S. Air Force statistics.
The two theatres of war are intimately linked. The drone attacks on Pakistan
Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in Foreign Policy on May 17th, 2011