Re: No time for a Honeymoon …
You are wrong, got misguided by propaganda of thief civilians pretending to be politicians, vested interest who loot and plunder with thieves in power, and their paid servants in media.
If you want to see true picture, do some research. Find aids (loans, grants) Pakistan received during various periods, and all would become clear. For instance … aid and grant Pakistan got from 1999-2013 … or during military rule (Musharraf period) and thieves rule (Zardari and Nawaz):
Pakistan under military:
Late 1999- early 2008 (8.3 years of Musharraf period) … Pakistan got funds mostly from USA, negligible from elsewhere (due to military rule, laws of many countries, especially European countries and Japan, restrict them from giving aid or grant).
Amount received (from USA and USA influenced world financial institutions):
Aid (subsidised loans and grants) ~ $4.5 billion
Re-imbursement to Pakistan from coalition support fund ~ $5 billion
Total of ~$ 9.5 billion (at most $10 billion) in 8.3 years (mostly from 2002-2008) … and out of that, loans and grants were less than $5 billion … rest is what Pakistan billed USA (nothing to do with aid … or loans and grants) and got as re-imbursement from coalition support fund.
Result: Pakistan external debt and liabilities did not increase from 1999 (~$40 billion) until early 2008 (still $40 billion) … Dollar reserves increased from less than $2 billion (including gold) in 1999 to over $16 billion dollars in early 2008. Rupee did not devalue … stayed ~Rs 60 to a dollar throughout from 2000 to early 2008.
Pakistan under thieves:
On the other hand, since 2008 (or in last 5.5 years), Pakistan got ~ £25 billion dollars from USA and USA influenced world financial institutions (IMF, World Bank, ADB, IB).
Aid (subsidised loans and grants) ~ $20 billion
Re-imbursement to Pakistan from coalition support fund ~ $6 billion
Apart of the above loans, grants and re-imbursement from USA and USA influenced world financial institutions, since 2008 (once thieves got into power) Pakistan also received many billions of dollars from European countries, Canada, Japan and Arab countries, some loans but mostly grants (many of these countries due to their own restriction on giving grants to military rule, did not gave a penny during Musharraf rule).
Result: Is that … due to loan alone … Pakistan external debt that was ~$40 billion in early 2008 (last days Musharraf in power) … increased to over $60 billion dollars today (At one time it went as high as $65 billion)… and on top of that … Pakistan dollar reserves that was standing at over $16 billion in early 2008 got reduced to less than $10 billion by 2013 … also rupee got devalued from ~Rs 60 to a dollar in early 2008 to Rs 108 to a dollar today … due to flight of capital, excessive printing and borrowing money domestically hence creating hyper inflation, pressure due to dollar payments and increased external debt.