This is very valid point.
Pakistanis should not expect “miracles” with $7.5 billion aid.
Reality is that Pakistan needs around $35 billion a year. And $1.5 billion is just a small percentage of that need.
However such agreements aren’t supposed to be measured by the dollars and cents in one package.
In reality such AID packages are a way into “people-to-people” and “business-to-business” relationships. Those non-governmental partnerships between Pak and American businesses would bring the real money that could over time be in the order of $100-150 billion a year.
However if we copy Egyptians, and grow long beards, and hide under tope and burqas then there will be no business-to-business cooperation.
on the other hand if we behave like Japanese, S. Koreans, and Chinese, and encourage open tourism and travel for the Western businessmen and ordinary people, then we will get the real benefit from the West.
So the choice is ours! Either we go with Long-beards+Hijabi tribal culture, or tourist-friendly industrialized civilized cultures of Japan, S.Korea, India, and china.