Zardari expects $100 Billion in grants for Pakistan

Posted on 05 October 2008. Tags: $100 Billion in grant for Pakistan, Pakistani, Zardari

Pakistan too cheap. Tit for Tat dimplomacy. Countering requests with formal invoices and charging market prices for service.
Damadola, Drones, divorce: US attacks evince reevaluation of US-Pakistan relations and extreme anger at America

US AID TO PAKISTAN: Ephimeral, Invisible, too little and useless
$40 Billion has been pldeged for Afghanistan. Pakistan got $5 billion!!! US aid: Pakistan gets less than 50% of actual amount spent on war
Pakistan has been given pennies on the Dollar. Out of the aid given to Pakistan, half of it stays in the USA, and another 25% is spent on logistics. US again offers peanuts in aid. Pakistanis want to reject and negotiate up.

Rupee News has been espousing the cause of adequate US to Pakistan for the past several years. It fell on deaf ears, ’till now when Mr. Asif Zardari has asked the US for the proper amount of grants. Pakistan responds to Pentagon demands. Review Pakistan USA relationship

Pakistanis want to hear “Thank You” from the ingrate Americans. Nothing is good enough!. This message has not gotten to Washington. Pakistanis to USA: We want “Friends Not Masters”.

Zardari expects world to come up with $100 billion by Our Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct 4: Citing the threat posed by militants along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and the possible economic meltdown, President Asif Ali Zardari has asked the international community to give Pakistan $100 billion in grant to ensure the country’s survival.

I need your help, if we fall, if we can’t do it, you can’t do it, Mr Zardari repeatedly said during an interview with Wall Street Journal’s columnist Brent Stephens, published on Saturday.

In the interview, Mr Zardari also called for a broader free trade agreement with India and said: India has never been a threat to Pakistan.

I, for one, and our democratic government is not scared of Indian influence abroad.

Stephens said in his column that Mr Zardari spoke of the militant groups operating in occupied Kashmir as terrorists, adding that he had no objection to the India-US nuclear cooperation pact so long as Islamabad was treated at par with New Delhi.

The Green Wildfire of freedom in Indian Occupied Kashmir: Fields of Pakistani flags in Srinagar. Indian Occupied Kashmiris have made it very clear to the world that they not only want freedom from Indian occupation, they have made it clear to the world that they want to join Pakistan. Indian Occupied Kashmir:-Children of the stones yearn for freedom and Pakistan. “We are Pakistanis and Pakistan is us because we are tied with the country through Islam,” he roared, as the crowd cheered him and chanted: “Hum Pakistani hain, Pakistan hamara hai” (We are Pakistanis, Pakistan is ours). Syed Gilani
“Kashmiris chant azadi & Jeevay Jeevay Pakistan in equal numbers and with equal intensity” “There was a green flag on every lamp post, every roof, every bus stop and on the top of chinar trees. A big one fluttered outside the All India Radio building. Road signs were painted over. Rawalpindi they said. Or simply Pakistan” Arundhati Roy on Kashmir
Fed on a steady diet of triumphalist media reports it is very hard for the Hinduvata India to comprehend. Very recently parts of the Indian press has begun to recognize the real problems. Indian Occupied Kashmirs throngs UN offices asking for freedom and end to occupation

Why would we begrudge the largest democracy in the world getting friendly with one of the oldest democracies in the world?

Pakistan to USA: “We are unclear about your intentions and you must know if you do not trust us we trust you even less”

On Mr Zardari’s request for $100 billion in grant, Stephens says that he has a simple and powerful argument to make that the world cannot allow his government to fail not when it’s becoming increasingly plausible that Pakistan itself, with its stockpile of as many as 200 nuclear warheads, could be toppled by Al Qaeda and its allies.

Renegotiating the US-Pakistan alliance: Correcting the price tag. GWOT counterpoints to USA

In asking the international community for infusion of $100 billion into Pakistan’s economy, Stephens said Zardari was keen to insist that it not be described as aid.

Pakistans 7 invoices from the stone age. New Pakistani Governemnt. New bill. Old aid bill was signed under duress

Aid is proven through the researches of the World Bank . . . (to be) bad for a country, Zardari told WSJ. I’m looking for temporary relief for my budgetary support and cash for my treasury which does not need to be spent by me.

US again offers peanuts in aid. Reject and negotiate up

It is not something I want to spend. But (it) will stop the (outflow) of my capital every time there is a bomb. . . . In this situation, how do I create capital confidence, how do I create businessmen’s confidence?

GWOT should be replaced with Police Action & Swat teams

On US-Pakistan differences to conduct the war on terror, Mr Zardari was anxious to downplay any differences with the US. I am not going to fall for this position that it’s an unpopular thing to be an American friend. I am an American friend, Zardari said time and again.

On the incident last month in which Pakistani troops allegedly fired at US aircraft, Zardari told WSJ: It was merely an incident, and while incidents do happen, they are not important.

He goes off the record to describe sensitive military subjects, but acknowledges that the US is carrying out Predator missile strikes on Pakistani soil with his government’s consent. We have an understanding, in the sense that were going after an enemy together.

Zardari, Stephens maintained, also conceded the problem that had bedevilled past efforts at US-Pakistani cooperation, particularly in intelligence sharing: the widely held suspicion that Pakistani intelligence services continue to cooperate with, and even arm, the Taliban.

You know, you keep an uglier alternative around so that you may not be asked to leave, he says in reference to charges that former president Pervez Musharraf was not sincere in fighting militancy.

Mr Zardari refuses to go into detail other than to say he solved the problem.

Mr Zardari expressed a hope that, with the intelligence problem out of the way, a new era of cooperation can open up with the US. We want to be able to share [US] intelligence, he told WSJ. We need helicopters, we need night goggles, we need equipment of that sort.

BLA: A threat to International Peace. The BLA is a creation of Indian Intelligence agencies which are trying to create instability in the areas bordering Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan

He said there was a need for precision and finesse in fighting militants, rather than large-scale military force. My eventual concept is that we should be taking them on as they are, as criminals.

Of Osama bin Laden, Zardari said: The minute I make anybody my enemy, he becomes as big as I am.

Proxy war in Afghanistan: Strategic depth vs Strategic clout

Referring to reports that Pakistan has deployed F-16s against militants in tribal areas in part because the army’s own troops have been routinely routed in ground fighting, he said: Their problems aren’t simply tactical. What kind of a joke is this that I cannot pay my security personnel more than the Talibs are paying?

Those terrorists are paying their soldiers 10,000 rupees; I’m paying seven or six thousand rupees.

The effects of such a disparity are increasingly in evidence. The recent bombing of Islamabad’s Marriott hotel, in an area that is under particularly tight security controls, is a fresh reminder that Pakistan’s terrorist problem extends well beyond the tribal hinterlands, Stephens argues in his concluding note.

THE PAKISTANI RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF THREATS: Mountbatten, Nehru, Indira, Kruschev, Johnson, Carter, Kissinger (Nixon), Gobachov, Clinton, Armitage (Bush), Karzia (Bush and Vajpayee/Sing) have all threatened Pakistan: The Pakistanis are used to it…so what else is new?!! Pakistan’s Nuclear Program should be seen in the backdrop of these threats.