Re: Why many Pakistani-Americans aren’t sending flood donations home
You ask about the result in Afghanistan. Afghans, certainly the women and the girls and the minorities, enjoy much greater freedoms in today’s Afghanistan than they did a decade ago under the brutally oppressive Taliban regime. To me that is a heartening result. To some it might not be. Also I must remind you that while Pakistanis love to berate U.S. especially for its involvement in Afghanistan, and despite U.S. recognition of Pakistan as a “strategic” partner like India, and billions of dollars of U.S. aid, which has helped keep the country’s economy afloat, ironically today they view even India more favorably than the U.S., Afghans have contempt-- and not any reciprocal sympathy-- for Pakistan. Interestingly, their government has become increasingly vocal in its criticism of its eastern neighbor. Surely you are aware about the rhetoric coming from Kabul these days, especially in the wake of wikileaks revelations about the alleged cohabitation of ISI and the Taliban, that the “real root cause of terrorism” is Pakistan and its agencies, that the U.S. severs its ties with Pakistan, and that the NATO forces devote their energy in launching offensives against militants and their sanctuaries in Pakistan proper instead of in Afghanistan. The U.S. has shown commendable restraint despite the increasing chorus from some of Pakistan’s neighbors that the war in Afghanistan be changed into one in Pakistan and that Pakistan be regarded a pariah state, akin to North Korea or Iran.
Here is an illuminating article:
“Is the US cheating on the Afghans?”](http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\08\23\story_23-8-2010_pg3_4)