Yeh see one of the psychological effects of having been
enslaved and this includes us all South Asians is 70 years after our freedom we suffer from a
victim complex. Deep down we still are carrying the trauma of slavery and thus are still hostage to the colonial period as victims.
This condition is for example reflected in being
overly consumed by the concept of soverignty. The reality is very few countries today are entirely soveriegn. The global trading order and defence pacts across the world eat into most countries sovereignty. Not long ago we used to have huge USAF airbases in UK that were armed with nukes. These bases mostly functioned beyond the remit of HM government. Mighty countries that fought like lions and are still the stuff of military history and movies like Germany and Japan had and still have huge US military bases. Some are as large as small towns with their own airfields, hospitals, police etc. 9/11 happens in New York and we have German troopers, Norwegian commandos, Latvian soldiers, French Legionaires, Danish commandos, Canadian paratroopers, Australian heli-troops patrolling in middle of Afghanistan when non ever got touched by 9/11. It's the price they pay of being part of a larger defence and econonmic order. No country can a be island unto itself.
We have to get past this "victim complex" and act with confidence. A bit like a rape victim sees a rapist around every corner we see our sovereignty under threat at every corner. We must move forward from this victim complex. Therefore if Pakistan has to even lease out the hammer head which until yesterday was just eight miles of sand and cliffs it is no problem. The real "gold" here is creating a economic linkage that injects much need competition and fresh ideas inside Pakistan. Right now Pakistan is stale with Mullah breath. We desperately need the country to be opended up to the outside. This is rather embarrasing but I will let you into a secret that not many Pakistanis will admit - either because of misplaced pride or ignorance. Pakistan has
no real industry and no real industrialists. So this talk of Pakistani industry being wiped out is hocus pocus.
Our real industry is
people export, followed by
commodity export, followed by
renting our strategic location. With the Chinese for the first time we have a chance that Pakistanis might be introduced to thinking like businessmen. That is why I went as far as suggesting leasing the hammerhead in Gwadar to China.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/gwadar-goes-red-specabad.530463/