When Pakistan came into
being, back in 1947, the world had recently seen a terrible end of the World War
2. The world saw a split. The war time allies, i.e. USA and Soviet Union stood
face to face, basing their tussle on the ideologies of capitalism and communism.
The former being liberal, the later being totalitarian.
Being a newly born state Pakistan had to side any one of these world powers in
order to survive in the changing globe. Keeping in glance this need, our first
Prime Minister Mr. Liaqat Ali Khan, extended a gesture of friendship to the USA,
by rejecting the invitation set forward by the Soviet Union for an official
state. Soon, the Prime Minister visited the USA on an official visit. A formal
beginning of Pak – U.S relations.
Apparently we have remained allies with USA but big question marks arise when we
look at the share of US in this relation ship. Talking directly US has always
escaped the scene when Pakistan was in dire in need.
In 1965 Indo – Pak war instead of aiding Pakistan the US stopped sale of arms to
Pakistan, accusing us for having relations with china which the US deemed as a
rival country. Then in 1971 when Pakistan was on the verge of disintegration the
US, although initiated the move of a naval fleet to aid Pakistan in the war, but
that fleet never arrived not. Even after Dhaka had fallen.
When in 1974 Pakistan established it military nuclear programme, the USA was
greatly alarmed at the possibility of Pakistan being a nuclear power. We could
not compromise over our existence, with honor, grace and dignity. The nuclear
programme was developed because India hard already achieved that status. It was
necessary for us to hold a nuclear arsenal if we wanted to live freely against
India’s adverse intentions. Knowing this fact very well, still America
pressurized Pakistan and Henry Kissinger threatened our then Prime minister Mr.
Bhutto, of making him a symbol of lesson for others. Alhamdulillah today 12
years have passed of us being a nuclear power.
In the Afghan conflict during the soviet invasion, in the beginning America
provided Pakistan, which was a front line ally in this war, with only symbolic
assistance. It’s a reality that our leadership had to, force the US, in bearing
the cost of this war.
Coming ahead, in early 90’s the U.S placed embargos on Pakistan. The F-16 air
crafts were not delivered and America created Problems for Pakistan in the form
of Presseler amendments. Yet again, not a friendly show.
When Pakistan decided to reveal its nuclear stature to the world, and India in
particular, after the Pokhran desert blasts by India in 1998, the United States
yet again disturbed Pakistan by placing sanctions and creating problems. We
stood firmly and the blasts were conducted on a brave initiative by the then
prime minister Mr. Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.
In Sep 2011, the twin towers incident took place and the world was again thrown
into a large scale conflict. The U.S alleged Al-Qaeda for these acts and invaded
Afghanistan to hunt down Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda, Pakistan hard
to jump in this war as the conflict hard direct effects on us. We could have
avoided this war, if America hard not dragged us in it. 10 years have passed of
the conflict; Pakistan has sacrificed 35,000 citizens and 6000 military
personnel. Our financial losses are at 70 billion dollars. Imagine a poor
country like Pakistan facing all these looses. The law and order situation in
the country is bad just because of this war on terror. We never asked for this
war but now we have to survive it.
Still, the U.S asks us to do more what else can we do? The American drones, all
the time violate our integrity and target our citizens. Is this way in which
matters are handled with allies? No absolutely not! Finally the US searched
Osama Bin Laden, to Abbottabad, and conducted a covert commando operation
against him, marking a very serve violation of our sovereignty, in May 2011.
Dear USA we have bearded enough brunt for you. Nor its time that you leave
Pakistan alone and stop asking us to do more. It is in the best interest of the
world that you go from Afghanistan and Iraq, and leave the Muslim world on its
own, so that peace can prevail.