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Kerry promises more drones attacks
The visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry has not raised the hopes of seasoned politicians and analysts in Pakistan; least of all of those at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Islamabad.
And while, John Kerry gives us the hope of his country's willingness to start talks on strategic relations with Pakistan, most of us have a sense that in this regard it is the strategy of the superpower to keep our hopes permanently alive for becoming a strategic partner of John Kerry's country.
To be fair to him, he is not the first US official who has made pledges to us which will not be fulfilled. Like the famous Seventh US fleet which was sailing towards the then East Pakistan to save us from Indian aggression and which, nevertheless, never arrived, much of what the US administration vowed to us in selfless aid never happened.
Going even back in time when Pakistan became the member of SEATO to and CENTO on the promise that these would form the cornerstones of Pakistan defence needs; when we were faced with Indian aggression, US help was nowhere to be seen.
Another example was President John F Kennedy's phone call to President General Ayub Khan pressing him not to advance Pakistan's forces into Kashmir while there was a full-scale war going on between China and India. In return President Kennedy promised to settle the Kashmir issue according to the resolution of the United Nations. Pakistan kept its part of the bargain, it never attacked or tried to free Kashmir from Indian occupation; US however never kept its vows, it never even symbolically pressed India to hold plebiscite in Kashmir.
It is but just very recent that President Bush Junior promised us Reconstruction Opportunity Zone (ROZ) scheme. Under the scheme, US was to help set up industries in our tribal areas bordering the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and as an incentives for the tribesmen, the US president promised, pledged, vowed or whatever, to allow duty free imports to US of the goods manufactured by these industries. Almost a decade later, not even a blacksmith workshop was set up under ROZ scheme.
Than came John Kerry's predecessor Hillary Rodham Clinton to Pakistan. She argued that while US has invested a lot in this country, there is not one major project to show for it as symbol of US friendship and investment. She promised, she will overcome this deficiency. Pakistani's being resiliently optimistic as well as incurably and persistently hopeful of someone else solving their problems, believed Hillary and her promises and hoped for huge US investment in the power sector. Hillary came, Hillary promised, Hillary went back; the investment never came. Half a decade after Hillary's visit the US still has no project in Pakistan, not even a tiny 50mw power generation project which can be viewed as the symbol of US friendship and investment in Pakistan.
Even the US Secretary of State John Kerry is not on his first visit to Pakistan. He had visited this country when he was a Senator and had co-authored the Kerry-Lugar Bill regarding financial assistance to Pakistan. The bill was only for $1.5 billion dollars per annum but Pakistan had to subordinate its army to US interests to get it; still John Kerry could not help informing us, time and again, what a great favour the superpower was doing to Pakistan.
Like his predecessor, Hillary Clinton, and many other senior US officials, John Kerry is also promising us, among many other good things, assistance in the power sector. Though none believe him, but he still is our guest who has his bull in our china shop.
We have to be polite and nod our heads believingly to whatever he promises and secretly hope that the bulls gets out of our shop and and leaves us alone. We know that if the US had any sense of friendship towards us, it would have helped us rebuild and repair our infrastructure destroyed in the US's war against terrorism and of which we stupidly took ownership.
In spite of our past experience of promises unfulfilled with US secretaries of State, there still is something believable about John Kerry, we believe him when he promises more drone attacks.
The visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry has not raised the hopes of seasoned politicians and analysts in Pakistan; least of all of those at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Islamabad.
And while, John Kerry gives us the hope of his country's willingness to start talks on strategic relations with Pakistan, most of us have a sense that in this regard it is the strategy of the superpower to keep our hopes permanently alive for becoming a strategic partner of John Kerry's country.
To be fair to him, he is not the first US official who has made pledges to us which will not be fulfilled. Like the famous Seventh US fleet which was sailing towards the then East Pakistan to save us from Indian aggression and which, nevertheless, never arrived, much of what the US administration vowed to us in selfless aid never happened.
Going even back in time when Pakistan became the member of SEATO to and CENTO on the promise that these would form the cornerstones of Pakistan defence needs; when we were faced with Indian aggression, US help was nowhere to be seen.
Another example was President John F Kennedy's phone call to President General Ayub Khan pressing him not to advance Pakistan's forces into Kashmir while there was a full-scale war going on between China and India. In return President Kennedy promised to settle the Kashmir issue according to the resolution of the United Nations. Pakistan kept its part of the bargain, it never attacked or tried to free Kashmir from Indian occupation; US however never kept its vows, it never even symbolically pressed India to hold plebiscite in Kashmir.
It is but just very recent that President Bush Junior promised us Reconstruction Opportunity Zone (ROZ) scheme. Under the scheme, US was to help set up industries in our tribal areas bordering the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and as an incentives for the tribesmen, the US president promised, pledged, vowed or whatever, to allow duty free imports to US of the goods manufactured by these industries. Almost a decade later, not even a blacksmith workshop was set up under ROZ scheme.
Than came John Kerry's predecessor Hillary Rodham Clinton to Pakistan. She argued that while US has invested a lot in this country, there is not one major project to show for it as symbol of US friendship and investment. She promised, she will overcome this deficiency. Pakistani's being resiliently optimistic as well as incurably and persistently hopeful of someone else solving their problems, believed Hillary and her promises and hoped for huge US investment in the power sector. Hillary came, Hillary promised, Hillary went back; the investment never came. Half a decade after Hillary's visit the US still has no project in Pakistan, not even a tiny 50mw power generation project which can be viewed as the symbol of US friendship and investment in Pakistan.
Even the US Secretary of State John Kerry is not on his first visit to Pakistan. He had visited this country when he was a Senator and had co-authored the Kerry-Lugar Bill regarding financial assistance to Pakistan. The bill was only for $1.5 billion dollars per annum but Pakistan had to subordinate its army to US interests to get it; still John Kerry could not help informing us, time and again, what a great favour the superpower was doing to Pakistan.
Like his predecessor, Hillary Clinton, and many other senior US officials, John Kerry is also promising us, among many other good things, assistance in the power sector. Though none believe him, but he still is our guest who has his bull in our china shop.
We have to be polite and nod our heads believingly to whatever he promises and secretly hope that the bulls gets out of our shop and and leaves us alone. We know that if the US had any sense of friendship towards us, it would have helped us rebuild and repair our infrastructure destroyed in the US's war against terrorism and of which we stupidly took ownership.
In spite of our past experience of promises unfulfilled with US secretaries of State, there still is something believable about John Kerry, we believe him when he promises more drone attacks.
Oh damn! I forgot Hindu banyas cannot fight! This according to none other than the great Gen Hasan of the FCNA! 
