You are very wrong there about your assesment of hegemonic mentality but anyways its your view and you are most welcome to keep it the way it is....
han han, thanks.
Good for you...However lets not undermine the importance of congress members...They can put pressure on Govt to change..they have done in the past and they can do it in future...that is why you need to use your lobby(which you do) to keep them on same page....
yeah, that's true too.
Bolded part is important in my opinion..However its a two way street...
always is; that's why they call it a partnership.
My point was that this is not the right time for U.S. to cause any irritations un-necessarily. A lot is at stake here. We want the security situation in Afghanistan to improve immediately, we may have the key to that. Americans and ISAF are eager to vacate Afghanistan, as the war (militarily) is going nowhere.
We have a porous and historically difficult-to-monitor border with Afghanistan. Foreign forces can withdraw anytime they want; it isnt their countries (and it sure as hell isn't indian) which is affected. It is our country Pakistan that is affected the most. Iran too to a large extent. We have suffered economic losses, and endured a not-so-favourable security environment especially here in the Northwest & FATA.
Basically, if our concerns are not heeded to then it has adverse impact on our level of cooperation. The U.S. doesn't want that to happen. We Pakistanis love our arms and weapons. They make us smile. When there is talk (rants) about blocking sales or yapping in Congress and Senate about how we will use them to bomb indians, it annoys us. We will decide how they are used. Defence needs and requirements exist, and they shall be met.
Sorry but have no access to what is being really discussed apart from these headlines...Do you???
For better or for worse, no i do not. Did I imply otherwise?
Anyways it would be kiddish to ignore comments made in Press...
Those were my personal views. This is a forum.
Anyways how do you know nothing come out
...just kidding
what
There is a difference b/w Press finding out something and making hue and cry about it vs sharing an official statement....
can't argue with that
Good for you...However looking at your current needs(threat perception) vs your indegenous capabilities and support from China you still have a significant dependency on US and other western countries to give you that killer punch....
which is why Pakistan hopes to project an image of a peace-loving & responsible country not just to U.S. but to the world; we just ask the international community to learn our concerns, needs, requirements, etc.
On one side you have ever growing india on other side you have Pakistan crippeled by US sanctions
and I already stated that this is no new phenomenon. It's happened to us at least 2-3 other times. When it wasnt sanctions, it was embargos. I see it as a blessing in disguise as much as I see it as a bone of contention and cause of mistrust.
As long as Pakistan has the means to counter this so-called ''growing india'' then we can get good sleep at the end of the day. Given our limited means, and ground realities --- i'd say the 3 Services have done a fantastic job under their competent leaderships.
Up to you...I did explain you why such things should not be taken lightly...We have nothing to loose and if pressure worked you have lot of things at stake...
will it work?
You tried blocking our arms sales (despite your own buildup), you tried getting Pakistan to be declared a terrorist state, you travelled the world trying to tarnish Pakistan's image.
Nobody really paid too much attention; at least not enough to cause any substantial change to the 'status-quo'
indian have a bad habit of making the occasional provacative statement, which is most unfortunate. Sometimes we need to remind the indians that we are a nuclear power, and we have all the means at our disposal to defend our territory from attempted aggression.
india is the big baby crying to the world 
the only elder in this pic is the US not india keep crying no one cares we just like to point it lolz cuz its just patheic 
