[agiopwer]

salam

This piece of information is rather interesting to read.
It analyses the weak position pakistan is. And why the recent events by NATO was a show of defiance!
http://mybeliefs.co.uk/2011/12/03/pa...failed-nation/

[erelvenewmeva]

I don't know what purpose this thread serves, but that blog, whoever wrote that piece on it, was of a very pedestrian quality, just a rant. Anyways, what the United Snakes is paying Pakistan is a pittance when compared to what Pak has lost in financial terms (due to war).

I hope bro Abu_Bilal does not see this thread

[wowwieholmes]

May Allah fail them who are planning to make Pakistan a failed state - aameen!

[erelvenewmeva]

This is a Pakistani truism that few Americans understand. Since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, Pakistan has lost more than 35,000 people, the vast bulk of them civilians. While the U.S. has had slightly over 1800 soldiers killed in the past 10 years, Pakistan has lost over 5,000 soldiers and police. The number of suicide bombings in Pakistan has gone from one before 2001, to more than 335 since.

For most Americans, Pakistan is a two-faced “ally” playing a double game in Central Asia, all while siphoning off tens of billions of dollars in aid. For Pakistanis, the spillover from the Afghan war has cost Islamabad approximately of $100 billion. And this is in a country with a yearly GDP of around $175 billion, and whose resources have been deeply strained by two years of catastrophic flooding.

Washington complains that its $20.7 billion in aid over the past nine years has bought it very little in the way of loyalty from Islamabad, while Pakistan points out that U.S. aid makes up less than 0.3 percent of Pakistan’s yearly GDP, what Zahid Hussain, author of a book on Islamic militants, says comes out to “the price of a six-inch personal-size pizza with no extra toppings from Pizza Hut” for each Pakistani. In any case, much of the civilian aid—the bulk, $14.2 billion, goes to the military—has yet to be disbursed. http://dispatchesfromtheedgeblog.wor...ng-the-lens-2/
^ the author is a journalist.

[erelvenewmeva]

May Allah fail them who are planning to make Pakistan a failed state - aameen!

summa aameen.