I am also grateful for the generous assistance provided to Pakistan by the US from time to time.
ISLAMABAD: This is with reference to a report in your newspaper of April 12 titled “With ties at lowest ebb, US, Pakistan look for renewal”. This refers US Ambassador Cameron Munter’s address at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad on April 11. The question and answer session that followed from the speech in fact raised more questions than it provided answers. I was in attendance at the said lecture but the learned moderator could not presumably see my hand floating in the air since I wanted to ask Ambassador Munter a question.
And since I was not able to do that, I would like to use your pages for doing just that: “Excellency, I admire the American dream and that it is indeed the greatest democracy on the face of the Earth. I am also grateful for the generous assistance provided to Pakistan by the US from time to time. My concern is centred on the questionable standards of US foreign policy. America has supported usurpers around the world including Pakistan. How can America extricate itself from the consequences of such support? To improve the shattered image of the US, doesn’t Washington need to give up duplicity in world affairs and inject some measure of morality? Isn’t this the best way forward and how the two countries can bridge the trust deficit between them?”
BA Malik
Published in The Express Tribune, April 13th, 2011.
