This topic underlines our national tragedy. We have been taking aid from the USA since early 50s but consider US our real enemy. This attitude indicates irrational thinking on a national scale and susceptibility to the religious parties propaganda. Our gullible Joe public has no idea where our national interest truly lies.
How many times one has to repeat that no one is any ones eternal friend or eternal enemy. No country will help your country because of goodness of their heart.
All pacts and aid packages are meant to enhance the donor countrys influence in that region thus advancing that countrys interest. This has been true since the concept of city states developed some three thousand years ago. Any one who believes otherwise is either extremely naïve or living in cuckoo land.
To examine who is our real enemy one has to evaluate the past record. Let us examine who has been our friend?
China
China has always helped us in the past primarily because of its rivalry with India and also because of her aspirations of becoming a super power. In other words our interests have never been on collision course. If that were to happen, I am certain that China will also act as any other country.
USA.
US have been the main aid provider for most of the 6o years since independence. However the relationship has been stormy. US single handedly armed the entire PA armed forces until 1965. Justification being that it was for fighting Communism. However, when Pakistan used this in initiating and fighting 1965 war, US cut off the supplies making all of us very angry. Please tell me did US gave all the F-86s, Patton tanks, naval warships including the Ghazi submarine so that we could fight India?
The same thing happened in the Afghan war. As long as it served US interests US ignored our nuclear program and provided us military hardware including F-16, when Zia defied US at the Geneva peace talks with Russia, our relationship soured again. This has been repeated in the current WOT. Just because US gives more importance to India doesnot make US our enemy.
Russia:
Russia has been a friend with India for a very long time. India signed a friendship treaty with Russia before attacking Pakistan in 1971. However few Pakistanis hate Russia whereas the hatred towards US has no limit.
Iran:
Shah of Iran had ambitions of becoming the leader of the Muslim world and becoming dominant power in the region. Therefore they helped us in 1965 war and even gave us $500-million grant in the aftermath of 1971 war. However because the revolutionary Iran considers us a US ally and because we supported Saudi Arabia in the Sunni/Shia proxy war; our relations with Iran are neutral at best whereas India has excellent relations with Iran.
India:
This country has been our arch enemy since the day Pakistan was created. Their acts started with delaying and blocking payments and transfer of assets that fell due to Pakistan, followed up by annexing Hyderabad, Junagadh, Manwadar and most of all Kashmir. In 1971 they split us in two. We have fought three wars, four if you count Kargil, against India. Indias cold start doctrine has been developed specifically to destroy Pakistan before we had a chance to deploy nuclear weapons.
I have met more Afghans including Afghan Pashtuns who hate Pakistan more than any American that I have ever chanced to meet. A Gilzai Afghan who was a student of University College London in the 60's used to distribute pamphlets stating that Peshawar was winter capital of Afghanistan until 1820s and that it should be returned to the Afghans. But Afghans are our brothers!
United States against all Muslims is also a misconception. Some in US (such as neo cons) and pro Israel lobby may think so, but not the country as a whole. US has helped Bosnia against Christian Serbs. Have people forgotten that the fact that Suez Canal had been captured by UK and France in 1956? It was only because of US that despite their victory in the war, UK & France were compelled to give Suez Canal back to Egypt.
Would you rather have the butcher Saddam gobble up Kuwait and may be Saudi Arabia also?
It is only in Arabs versus Israel conflict that US has demonstrated unstinting support of the zionists.
I am not saying that we should be eternally bound to the US for giving us scores of billions in aid during the last 60 years, but at least we should not be ungrateful cads. US may be only a fair-weather friend but our real enemy? Certainly not. This title has only one candidate, our erstwhile Eastern neighbor.