Pangs & Price of Friendship with US

Keep on punishing Pakistan for being an ally in US war on terror.

A country can survive without being friend of the USA but it can’t live in peace with being friend of the USA.

Pakistan eat more sugar cane.

India and all other countries are allowed by the US, to get oil and gas at concessionary rates from Iran, but Pakistan is not allowed by the US to get even gas from Iran. Perhaps this is the punishment (or reward) the US and NATO wants to handover to Pakistan, for its sacrifices of over 50,000 lives and above a Trillion USD financial losses, in fighting the WOT, shoulder to shoulder with the US and the 49 NATO countries.

Even Oman was allowed in May 2013, to make an agreement for the purchase of gas worth $60 billion from Iran, for onward supply of this gas to China and India.

Any country in the world is allowed to get oil and gas from Iran, except Pakistan.

What Pakistan can get from IMF is loan (@3%) to repay its old loans. America just wants to keep Pakistan on drip therapy, so that it neither sinks nor swims and is an absolute Slave of the US dictation.

In fact, NO other country except Pakistan in the world, is so much under the influence of the US, for so little amount.

US exempts India, China from Iranian sanctions (Times of India Report).

WASHINGTON: US on Friday exempted some countries, including India and China, from the tough Iranian sanctions act as they continue to reduce their dependence on Iranian oil.

“I am pleased to announce that, based on additional significant reductions in the volume of their purchases of Iranian crude oil, China, India, the Republic of Korea, Turkey, and Taiwan have again qualified for an exception to sanctions…(under) the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012,” secretary of state John Kerry said in a statement.

These additional reductions were determined based on an analysis of these economies’ purchasing activity over the previous six months, Kerry said.

Additionally, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore and Sri Lanka have also qualified again for the NDAA exception because they no longer purchase crude oil from Iran, he said.

Kerry’s exemption in this regard came soon after the determination made by US President Barack Obama that there is sufficient supply of non-Iranian oil for countries to continue to reduce import of oil from Iran.

“There currently appears to be sufficient supply of non-Iranian oil to permit foreign countries to reduce significantly their purchases of Iranian oil, taking into account current estimates of demand, increased production by countries other than Iran, inventories of crude oil and petroleum products, and available spare production capacity,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said.

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