Re: Pakistan helping taleban:NATO
I am afraid none of these assertions, to say the least, are grounded in reality. You do realize that even as we speak thousands of Pakistani students are studying at top American universities, mostly in engineering, technology, and business related fields? The majority of the Pakistani students are also studying at graduate level, pursuing Masters, PH.Ds, or post-grad degrees that are more often than not funded, subsidized and paid for by American tax payers.
Are you aware that Pakistani students get the most number of Fulbright scholarships? Priority is given to ‘practical’ fields like engineering and many of these recipients of Fulbright scholarship, though academically gifted, come from the most disadvantaged backgrounds who have little chance of upward social mobility without advanced degrees from abroad. And these Fulbright scholarships come with a condition, i.e. after completing the degree from the US, the recipient MUST return back and serve their country at least for a minimum duration of time. If US was so against Pakistan progressing then why not it stops spending American tax payers’ hard-earned money on Pakistanis’ education?
Also FYI, there is NOTHING else the US would want then a progressive Pakistan. Such a Pakistan, in fact, is in the best interest of not only Pakistanis but also in the interests of the inhabitants of the rest of the world. A country of 180 million people, with nuclear weapons to boot, ravaged by internal conflict or talibanic fundamentalism is the worst nightmare for the world.