Loud Thinking

Once in May 2012 Dawn published my following letter..!

US-Pakistan relations
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Published May 22, 2012 12:11am

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This is apropos of the news item ‘Clinton presses Pakistan on terror groups’ (May 8). US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Pakistan to do more to crackdown on violent extremism during a press conference during her recent visit to India.

Asking Pakistan ‘to do more’ on militancy when militants are beheading our soldiers in the fight against terrorism is uncalled-for and an insult to a nation which gave more sacrifices in men and material than the combined losses of all Nato countries.

Ms Clinton should not forget that Pakistan and this region is suffering just because her agencies failed to stop 9/11 plotters.

They received flying training inside the US and none of them was a Pakistani.

We in Pakistan wonder what wrong we have done over the last 64 years in looking after America’s needs and helping it as a friend.

We helped America in the Korean War. We allowed flights for American U-2 planes to spy over the USSR. We connected the US with China.

We brought down the USSR in the Afghanistan war in the 1980s. We helped the US in fighting a very long war with the USSR which ultimately made America the sole superpower of the world.

We saved lives of American soldiers when they were being lynched by Somalian warlords, sacrificing precious lives of many of our soldiers.

The moral of the story is that a nation may survive not being a friend of America, but it can’t survive being a friend of America.

SYED NAYYAR UDDIN AHMAD Lahore