Considering the Germans picked up in Peshawar working supposedly for an NGO. The case of the Polio campaign in Abbotabad and other such cases over the past five years. Would you trust the American or Western NGOs to be doing only Humanitarian work.
Just to let you know. I personally (as in I hung out with them, dinner, parties and the rest) know two Americans who worked for NGOs in Islamabad who have been deported for traveling without authorization to FATA and over staying their visas by a few months.
Re: Would you trust an American NGO that is working in Pakistan?
I'm no longer in Pakistan but I knew that trust is a big thing to ask from my homeland.
Personal trust is the number one factor among people of my roots, sometimes fuedal warfare leaves us in such a state that we cannot even trust our first cousins.
To trust an outsider?
Well perhaps we could trust, but depen on them? Never.
Naturally in the North nobody can trust anybody anymore and strangers are most unwelcome, unless they prove themselves usefull.
Re: Would you trust an American NGO that is working in Pakistan?
A blanket yes or no would be a bit thick. I think it should be assessed case by case. Trust deficit is definitely a problem. But it's not that only foreign NGOs have deceived us. We have been bitten by our own people and organisations also.