A good democratic leader may tack back and forth but is going to reward people from the constituencies who died for his cause. While Jinnah gave his famous August 1947 speech what do you think was happening in the streets? The hundreds of thousands of Muslims of the subcontinent who fought and slew their Hindu neighbors expected some reward for these efforts - robbery alone wasn't enough unless it carried the legitimacy of a higher cause of some sort to wash the blood from their hands. Macbeth on a national scale. That, I think, was behind the grassroots part of the push for the Objectives Resolution and the attendant ills that followed.
Does "evolving" mean embracing militancy and terror and empire and war for the foreseeable future? Can it mean acknowledging past and current wrongs and working for everyone to keep their own with civil and property rights for all and equal dignity for all law-abiding people? Or is doing so too embarrassing (or too anti-Islamic?) to be contemplated out loud by Pakistanis?
The Chinese say, "Give a man to fish and you've fed him for a day; teach him to fish and you've fed him for a lifetime." They do not say that when you teach a man to fish you are forever responsible for what he chooses to do in life.
The most striking thing about America's relationship with the Sauds, Zia, etc. is that America provided the money and means but the decisions on what to do with the assets were made almost entirely by the respective leaders. Quite unlike British colonialism or French colonialism or even the United States' contemporary relationships in Central and South America. That's what made the Pakistanis and Sauds seek out Americans as their preferred ally.
However, Pakistanis like yourself are yet to own up to their responsibility. And almost the first rule American politicians and military officers have is that the U.S. is to take the blame and not say anything to embarrass or contradict their Pakistani counterparts - that's the price of cooperation, to take the blame. So it's going to be up to Pakistanis like yourself to wake up, step forward, and call your leaders to the carpet. How you are to do that in a state where the Higher Education Commission
calls on its universities to "remain very vigilant and forestall any activity that in any manner challenge(s) the ideology and principles of Pakistan, and/or perspective of the government of Pakistan" I do not know.
