past experience suggests that the US has left Pakistan always at the worst of times, when we needed it the most.
ISLAMABAD: This is with reference to your editorial of April 22 titled “Crossing the red line”. I am a staunch supporter of having good relations with the United States but past experience suggests that it has left Pakistan always at the worst of times, when we needed it the most.
And it is not just the state that has suffered, the people have paid for this as well. We fought the war of the Americans against the Soviet Army in Afghanistan and managed to get rid of them. And what did America do? It left Pakistan with General Zia’s legacy.
The same could well happen now. We are paying the price for fighting terrorists in the form of violence and bombings that take place in Pakistan almost on a daily basis. And, in spite of all of this, we are constantly being asked by America to ‘do more’.
Syed Shabbir Hussain Shah
Published in The Express Tribune, April 25th, 2011.
