I'm guessing you preferred Soviet puppets in Afghanistan.
Rather a puppet whose masters are far, far away from his country whose interference ends with his departure, and nor would there be any bordering issue in the future. Compare Najibullah and Taliban, you will get my point.
But no matter, we weren't going to let USSR attack us just to reach the Arabian Sea or the Indian Ocean.
Yeah, that's why anti-Daud Khan camps were active BEFORE the Russians even got into Afghanistan? Right. And I don't get why they would need Pakistan to enter whichever ocean while they got their friends Iran and India for that favour?
The one where we took in millions of refugees into Pakistan while your other neighbours had closed their doors.
Iran's doors were as much as open as yours, and that also without their government taking US aid and/or funds. And as far as our other neighbours were concerned, it was RUSSIA who controlled their borders, not them.
The one where the same refugees helped saturate our society with assault rifles and drugs.
They were refugees, not businessmen. Don't expect a poor person whose own state is cry worthy to boost another person's economy, nor fool yourself by claiming Afghans spoiled your 'society' which was full of similar activities anyway.
The one where the same refugees are refusing to back to their country even though a lot of them present a security risk by harbouring militants.
Millions have already returned, some have don't have anyone in Afghanistan anymore, and others earn enough to afford Pak citizenship. And yeah, we all know who has harboured how many militants for how many years and what reasons......
As for aid, my friend, it only results in misinformation and miscalculation. People today say Pakistan has been receiving $1.5 billion per year through the Kerry-Luger Bill. Yeah right, we've received a few millions so far yet the majority of people still consider the full amount paid.
The deal was regarding billions and even sources claim billions were paid, I am wondering how YOU (mis)calculated as 'a few millions only'?
A lot of the money we receive is compensation for the losses we incurred months or even years ago as a direct result of supporting the WoT. Strangely, we are only reimbursed with pennies for every dollar we spend.
Which comes back to the FACT I added, it's not our fault if the money received for aid ended up being spent on terror threats instead. It wasn't Afghanistan who asked Pak government to support US invade Afghanistan, remember?
They sure wanted to but the US did not consider it appropriate since Pakistan is crucial to this WoT.
Ehh, that's funny because as far as I know, it was the US who requested India to supply troops and it was INDIA who didn't consider it appropriate......?
Sometimes I really miss our former President Musharraf. He suggested fencing and mining the Pak-Afghan border and sending the refugees back.
If instead of preaching he had done those tasks himself during his own presidency, I would have actually taken a politician (for a change) seriously. Ask him who (or shall I say 'how much'?) stopped him from doing so?
But our friends across the border and in the US thought it was against Human Rights to mine the border for some reason. But someone out there doesn't want this to happen.
Your 'friends' across the border haven't got that much say as in what the Pak government should do and what not. The US (and 'some' government) don't want the borders to be fenced because guess where else will NATO get it's supplies from? Hint, NOT from Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and/or Turkmenistan.
It would have stopped a lot of those so-called cross-border terrorists.
Exactly.
