lol ab main kya bolun...
1. Drone attacks.
2. Blackwater.
3. Kerry Lugar Bill.
I am confused. Are you mentioning these as the good or the bad things? Both the Pakistan Gov and the US Gov say Blackwater doesn't exist in Pakistan, so that's not even disputed. Yes, there are the Zaid Hamid types, but I didn't think you were a Zaid Hamid admirer... I guess one is surprised every day.
The KL Bill will dispense 7.5B, and after a lot of back and forth, the terms are now even acceptable to the Army, plus another 2.some B was added in military supplies to make it an even 10B. This is the kind of thing your press cites to suggest Pakistan is using the US.
And as for the Drone Attacks, if you know how to use Google Earth, or just plain Google, look around for images of Predators and Reapers parked at Airbases in Pakistan. If you try, I am sure you will find them. What more evidence do you need that the drone program is happening as a collaboration between Pakistan and the US? Also, look for articles that detail joint manning of intelligence centres by CIA and ISI officers. These centres are in Pakistan and Afghanistan and make calls on which targets to get. Finally, humint for these attacks is provided by the ISI.
By the way, before you degenerate this thread into another, "Pakistan vs India, who is being used more?" discussion, sit back for a moment and think about something calmly. The reason why everyone *now* alleges that Pakistan is using the US is precisely because this time around, our approach to relations with the US has *not* been what it was historically. We have learnt our lesson. We are not going to repeat the mistakes of the past. There are nuances to this relationship now that never existed previously.
For example, in the '60s, we gave US U2 Spy aircraft basing privileges at Badaber Airforce Base in Peshawar. Garry Powers' famous May Day mission was flown from Peshawar. He got shot down. Khruschev was furious and he publicly threatened to nuke Peshawar. Instead of making a statement that extended the US nuclear umbrella to Pakistan, the US gave a weak and pathetic statement which made everyone in Pakistan feel betrayed. But we soldiered on in partnership with them. That is called being used & betrayed. When you give a friend the use of your house to spy on his enemy - not even a common enemy - and when the enemy threatens to burn down your house, your friend stands aside washing his hands of his role in your predicament.
Then there are so many countless other examples, such as the embargo placed on us in '65 when Russia was continuing to arm India, the refusal of the USG to meet the defence requirements list we sent them when signing the SEATO/CENTO pact, and in more recent times, the F-16s, Afghanistan abandonment, leaving 4M refugees in a developing country like Pakistan for us to bear the burden etc. etc.
Today, if Pakistan is seen as "using" the relationship with the US, the only response to this can be, "No sh1t, Sherlock!". We are not going to get roped in like we did in the past.
What I am telling you is not that you are bad and we are good, or you are stupid and we are smart. I am telling you that we have had an experience - some of the details of which I am sharing with you above - and we have learnt our lesson. If you can learn from our past to improve your future, wonderful.
If instead you want to throw sticks and stones at us and give me nonsensical 3-item bullet points to somehow continue with the rather boring and passe, "ooo pakistan bad" story line, then so be it. It speaks to your own mental capacity, and not much else.
