Why many Pakistani-Americans aren't sending flood donations home

[Captain1]

Re: Why many Pakistani-Americans aren’t sending flood donations home

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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.

I only asked you about terrorists, US bombed the sh!t out of Afghanistan to remove terrorists but guess what more than 60% of Afghanistan is still controlled by Taliban. You can glorify the 40% of Afghanistan as much as you want but the fact is that US/coalition has failed miserably. Its neither about “berating” nor about “strategic partnership” its about achievements. You can thump your chest about ‘US aid’ as much you like but the fact is that money is “reimbursement” of expenses that Pakistan incurs, that money does not cover military-men that Pakistan lost in supporting this war.

India may be looked more favorably probably because India is not invading Pakistan via drone-attacks, do you have number counts of people died in drone-attacks? US claims all of them to be ‘terrorists’ but in almost all cases only 5-10% have been Taliban and in some cases only innocent. What do you suggest Pakistani public do in that case? Still consider US as friend and keep thanking for the “US aid”?

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.

Pakistan has shown far more “commendable restraint” for the innocent lives lost by drone-attacks. As Pakistani I could care less about what India or Afghanistan thinks of Pakistan, we all know that US/coalition have failed to contain Taliban, failed to contain drugs which allegedly provide financial support. Pakistan kept telling US/Afghan govt to seal the Pak-Afghan border but they keep declining, I wonder why… did you ever wonder why?