before replying first you must understand what you read:
I was not blaming west I was blaming all the haram khor Pakistanis be it generals or politicians but mostly Generals who started this and brought Pakistan on her knees, even IK had to do it because he does not have a magic wand. Maybe you blame the credit card company I blame the user.
This is where you are wrong. Just like IK had no magic wand, grant the same to others as well including generals like Musharraf.
You wrote "Pakistan must allow everything west asks them to in order to keep
haram money coming....this is what our bahadur Establishment has given Pakistan."
What is "haram" about the money flowing from the west whether it is via trade or trade concessions (as in the case of EU's preferential trade deal) or even in the form of loans?
Second, why are the "generals" to be blamed for this? Pakistan has needed assistance because we don't make anything worth exporting. We have expenses in the form of internal and external security. We have poverty, lack of education, lack of healthcare all of which requires money. If you don't make this money yourself, what recourse do you have but to look for preferential trade agreements and in some cases the much hated loans?
Miftah Ismail is on the record saying that in the tenure of PTI, Pakistan's external dues increased at the highest rate ever! So what happened to fiscal responsibility then?
Grant to others what you grant to Imran Khan. Just like he inherited problems, the same applies to any of the military rulers. It wasn't as if they just strolled into a situation where the economy was operating in a surplus.
So as much as you try to paint IK as the knight in shining armor (I admit he is not financially corrupt like NS/AAZ et-al) and save all the contempt for others, know that our economic reality has been bad for whoever was in the office and thus necessitating reliance on the west for loans etc.
In my mind, if you/we don't want this, then we have to extricate our tentacles from expensive ventures like controlling Afghanistan, Kashmir (and thus ending an expensive arms race) and all other experiments in regional influence. This is the cost to pay for having a benevolent existence where your expenses can thus be managed by your meager economic output and you can use more of this money to feed the impoverished people.
If the above is not palatable then we need to rely on all tools to stay economically afloat and also retain our interests in the region which is what the establishment has tried to manage for good or bad.
