Re: Imran Khan meets US lawmakers, seeks aid cut to Pakistan.
Well, USA is giving £200 million, not £1 billion as help to Pakistan in reducing poverty and provide basic needs, like infrastructure, schooling and health. Rest, USA is giving nothing other than reimbursement of what they get. If they would not give for the services and goods they get, they would not get what they are getting. If USA stops that $200 million dollars they give as buddet support, than Pakistan would reduce some expenses in developments. Pakistan spends $30 billion ($30000 million dollars from their own resources, $200 million dollars is 0.7 percent and if that would stop .. it may stop a bit of development in the country, still I do not think that it would matter that much).
Requirement of American forces in Afghanistan is coming through Pakistan, from their food, clothing, health needs, ammunition, or movements in and out of Afghanistan. If they do not want to use Pakistan to get their requirements, they can find some other ways to get it, no problem.
As for ‘war on terror’ on Pakistani side, their expenses is mostly getting met by Pakistan. Even if USA stop all payment and leave Afghanistan to rot like dead dog, still Pakistan would be fighting these terrorists and extremists, not for USA but for Pakistan.
No country, neither Pakistan can allow armed bandits in one part of Pakistan challenging Pakistani laws, controlling life of people in that area, and making a large chunk of mentally deficient Pakistanis into Zombies.
[And yes: What I know, total what Pakistan received from USA in all payments until present since Musharraf came to power, that includes reimbursement of American own expenses is I think $8.7 billion, not $10 billion. on the other hand, Pakistan has already paid interest on debt that pre-Musharraf took is over £80 billion (just interest … and half of that is in dollars) … plus Pakistan during last 8 years has already accumulated $16 billion dollars in reserve.
So, this $200 million dollars budget support a year since last few years is just a drop in the ocean. Though it helps but still, that is not life line by any means. Just compare that to Pakistan stock market .. valuation of Pakistan stock market has increased from around $4 billion dollars in 1999 to $70 billion dollars today … so what is this $200 million dollars?].
Well, if Musharraf was dictator (as you believe) and wanted to save Imran from awam, than Imran would not have been in jail, but would have been with ‘Sita White’ on other side. This is how dictatorship works 
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Pakistan army has many drawbacks, but at least Pakistan army is from Awam (people from working class). I think that very few in Pakistan army is from parasite class stealing and living on poor people’s money or on agricultural lands that were given to them because they sold their area and soul to British and today they are exploiting poor workers on those lands as big Landlords or Sardars. These people who sold the country throughout history would like to sell Pakistan too, for peanuts in their bank accounts.
I am not against democracy … but that has to be democracy, not democratic monarchy, democratic anarchy, or democratic colonization by thieves belonging to a class of society who always lived in history of the area to loot, plunder and exploit masses.
These people are product of foreign invasion to the area, and always look at foreign masters to serve them and gain from them, Hence these are different people than army (who know them a bit) or even illiterate masses (who do not recognize them).