This was a nice read. 
“It was a rare day for Pakistan on Capitol Hill, with one US legislator after another hailing the country as a ‘champion ally’ and some even urging the Bush administration to offer Islamabad a similar nuclear deal that it offered to India…”
http://dawn.com/2006/06/23/top9.htm
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you know that saying …
thats how it goes
“hum heen pakistani hum to jeeten gyy”
:desimunda:
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There are no allys, friends, enemies but INTERESTS.. Havn’t you learn from the last episode.. So long Mush or any successor is in Chinese camp milking the cow this ally shalay is good keep it that way. It won’t be long before this great ally pays us in soy bean oil and charge 50 grand per f16 storage fees. Be aware.
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Chinese camp? Milking the cow? What hath you smokn' abdali badshaho?
Yeap! And that's precisely what they are saying that Pakistan is supporting US interests.
FYI every sane country (minus some tribal axis of evil) is supporting USA.
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Me not smokin what you smokin, and there are quite a few that kicked amreekan a$$.. Just look around…
Every country that supports amreeka becomes sane.!!!. Then 95 percent of the world must be insane..LOL…
Stop smoking Afghan stuff it aint good for you.
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Everyone knows theres no unconditional love when it comes to international relations, all alliances are interest based. Here riding high tide doesnt mean discovering true love, it means being in a certain right situation, exploiting and using it to own advanatge as long as the high tide lasts. That's how it works for all nations. Most of the time. It's no good, but that's how it is.
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I put it little differently “milk the cow” basically same thing.
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Milking the cow is a neagative approach. Pakistan is providing defense services as part of a contract. This is no different than Bharatis providing clerical services, or Chinese providing manufacturing services to the USA.
As in any contract, the current contracts of Pakistan, Bharat, and China will come to an end.
However good contractors work on future proposals all the time, to make sure they will get a new contract as soon as the current one expires.
Bharati contractor companies continuously look for new avenues to provide their clerical services.
Chinese contractor companies continuously look for new stores where they can sell their manufacturing services.
Similarly Pakistani contractor companies must look for new areas and hot spots where they could provide their defense services. This is how Pakistan can capitalize it’s core competency. When you provide defense services, other secondary contracts for supplying towels, bed-sheets, or human capital such as engineers, doctors, carpenters, and masons will come our way as well.
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You are known to slip away from the topic at hand and go in circles blabbering shabering whatever comes out of ya mouth… must be he Afghan stuff.. I will save the bandwidth…
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Yes we need to save our cities and our bandwidth from lefties and tribals be they Afghans, Arabs, or North Koreans.
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^ Oh I see the mullahs have now suddenly become lefties. What next?????
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Oh no! somebody said M-word. Wrath of gupistan gods is about to strike. Duck and cover.
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Save your brain cells for better moments, its beyond your scope of comprehension.
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behave buddy. No personal attacks. If you are running out of arguments, then accept the facts instead of screaming like a village woman.
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Trust me with your types there are no personal attacks, its basic logic which is an alien concept in your part of the world… ..Just go throw your posts, ask for 3rd party second opinion. Or ask your neighbors child…
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Only 20% of the FDI now flowing into Pakistan is from the US, which means that we have managed to attract the bulk from the rest of the world, especially the Muslim Gulf states.
http://www.pakboi.gov.pk/fdi/foreign_direct_and_portfolio_i.html
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I think in the comming years top investors in Pak will be UAE and China followed by EU and then the rest of the world.
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Oh my dear Silly! FDI is not the only measure. Bank gaurantees and a “shabash” from neocons like Wolfowitz sitting at the helm of World bank is equally important.
FDI will stop the day Moody drops Pakistan’s rating. And by golly we don’t want that kind of thing.
Every major investment in Pakistan is backed by international banks. You know very well that if your name is Mohammad or Ahmad, Dubai will stop even $100 dollars (unless cleared by the US Treasury).
So it is a futile effort to pit Pakistan against USA or push Pakistan in the lap of Chinese.
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^
antiobl I don't want to see Pakistan pitted against the USA, rather I don't want it to be totally reliant on it. The Musharraf government has adeptly changed our foreign and economic policies in the last year so that we now attract FDI from multiple economic centres, and has made us less dependent on just the US.