The news that Pentagon has decided not to issue certificate of clearance regarding the U.S aid to Pakistan brings to my mind the book of Field Marshal Ayub Khan titled “Friends, Not Masters”. Qudratullah Shahab was the brain behind this book. Also Altaf Gauhar.
The title of the book tells the whole story of the Pak-US relations.
The present US Secretary of Defense Mr Carter by taking the decision mentioned above has re-asserted the U.S position in this respect.
“There can be no friendship with beggars,” he has, by implication told us. “We are your ‘Masters’— not friends. Obey our command and we will pay you.”
The U.S command is: “Shoot at your feet. Shout at your head. And if you are still alive shoot at your heart.”
Well dear countrymen (and women) time has finally arrived for us to make a paradigm shift in our Foreign Policy. We really have to tell Americans now: “Enough is enough. We want no longer to stay as beggars. We want to be choosers now. We want to be your friends. You have paid us 14 billion in 14 years to fight your war in this region. We have ended up with a ruined economy and a society that lives in the fear of bullets and bombs. Thanks you for giving us an opportunity to say No to you, and also to advise you to burn those $ 300 million you were offering to pay us if we agreed to shoot to keep your puppet regime in power in Kabul— and in the bargain jeopardize our own security.”
America’s failure to condemn the Indian atrocities in the Occupied Kashmir is more than enough to make us wake up to the fact that the U.S strategic ally now is India, not Pakistan in this region— also to the fact that Americans now want an Ashraf Ghani in Islamabad too, so that India’s job to control this region on behalf of Washington gets easier.
But for General Raheel Sharif and Pak Army, Americans would by now have arranged a Nobel Prize for peace for Nawaz Sharif as well— whose readiness to become Pakistan’s Ashraf Ghani (and India’s trusted Viceroy in Islamabad) is not a well-kept secret by now.
One wishes Pakistan had moved to get this meeting on its soil of the SAARC Interior Ministers cancelled in protest against the atrocities committed by Mr Rajnath’s India against the people of Kashmir.
But it is Pakistan’s great misfortune that at this crucial juncture of history, an Indian proxy is in control of Islamabad.
