Loud Thinking January 25, 2015 at 10:07AM

Great American favour to Pakistan..!

Council on Foreign Relations has discovered a Gem of an information that since 2001 Pakistan has received USD 25 billion in US aid and direct military reimbursements.

My take on the above CFR news is as below:

$25 billion US money for Pak since 2001 is nothing more than peanuts, if seen in the comparison for what Pakistan did for the USA, in making it a sole super power, besides sacrificing many lives of Pakistani soldiers to save US troops in Mogadishu, saving US nationals from its burning embassy in Islamabad; and last but not the least, fighting US imposed WOT in Afghanistan (when not a single Pakistani was involved in the 9/11) by NOT charging a single penny for the overflights in 15 years (don’t forget Turkey was offered $20 billion for the overflights for just few weeks during the gulf war which it refused; and if calculated for 15 years for Pakistan, the same amount would have fetched $130 billion), which practically reduced it to the Stone Age.

Hence, in my opinion if the entire material wealth of the US is transferred to Pak, the US can’t repay its debt for the priceless services of Pakistan.

The least US can do for this (always) friend made enemy benefactor nation, is to allow it to purchase gas from Iran, as also allowed to India and so many other nations, if US still refuses to itself SELL its LNG to Pak and allows the same to India.

The moral of the story is that a nation can survive very easily not being a friend and not being a major non-NATO ally but it can’t if the case is otherwise.

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