Pakistan: US package for Gilani –food,flights, F-16s, 15 Billion

Where’ the beef? Rhetoric from the USA but no US arms for Pakistani Forontier Corps

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.

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• Pakistans 7 invoices from the stone age. New Pakistani Governemnt. New bill. Old aid bill was signed under duress
• Selective amnesia of Americans. Pakistan is the most mistreated friend of America. The post Benazir era must be different
• Americans are from Mars. Pakistanis are from Venus
• Pakistani Cheese for Western whine
• Putting blame on Pakistan wont’ help the war on terror.

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”.

THE LAND OF LINCOLN PUSHING PAKISTAN’S WRONG BUTTONS: US desire to micromanage change in Pakistan will boomerang. It is sad that even those who know Pakistan have chosen to be employed by the Indian machinery and are presenting the other point of view. On deconstructing the wrong paradigm of the USA media.

Failure and defeat in Afghanistan. Payback for Pakistan. Shireen Mazari clearly resents the “Do More” mantra. Pakistani Cheese for Western “whine”. Invoices for services rendered.Many Americans have threatened Pakistan. Kissinger and other Americans threatened Pakistan. The lessons from past defeats have not been passed on to the new generation of US and UK policy makers. Python swallows alligator and explodes: Lessons from the Peloponnesian War.

Some Pakistani invoices from the Stone Age for America Pakistan’s 7 invoices from the stone agen (pun intended). New Pakistani government. New 150 Billion per annum bill for the USA. Old aid was signed under duress. The right aid for Pakistan:Renegotiating the US Pakistan alliance. Correcting the pirce tag. GWOT. Seven counterpoints to USA.

US likely to grant non-stop flight rights to PIA By Our CorrespondentWASHINGTON, July 24: During Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s forthcoming visit to Washington, the United States and Pakistan will sign an agreement to grant non-stop flight rights to PIA, sources told Dawn.

The two countries are also expected to conclude an agreement on providing US food assistance to Pakistan to help it deal with the current food crisis, the sources said.

Pakistani lobbyists are also trying to persuade US senators to at least start formal hearing on a $15 billion aid package for Pakistan during the July 28-29 visit.

The agreement for flight rights will allow PIA to operate direct, non-stop flights to and from New York. Initially, PIA will operate one flight a week from New York to Lahore, but later it may be allowed to operate non-stop flights to Karachi as well.

In October 2002, PIA purchased eight Boeing 777 long- and extended-range aircraft after a period of 10 years of no new orders. The goal was to operate non-stop flights between Pakistani and North American cities with sizeable Pakistani populations.

PIA has already started non-stop flights from Toronto, but plans for similar flights to and from US cities could not materialise because the Department for Homeland Security refused to permit such flights.

Apparently, the Americans had no objection to direct flights from the US to Pakistan, but they refused to allow non-stop flights from Pakistan. They told Pakistani authorities that they believed Pakistan did not have adequate security arrangements at its airports to prevent terrorists from using such flights for their activities.

American officials insisted that flights originating from Pakistan must stop at an international airport for a thorough security check before proceeding to the United States.

The proposed agreement will remove this objection but before the flights begin Pakistan will have to update security arrangements at its airports.

Another agreement to be finalised during the prime minister’s visit concerns Pakistan’s request last month for 500,000 tons of wheat from the United States to help them deal with the current food crisis. While the Americans have agreed in principle to help Pakistan, it is not yet clear how much wheat they are going to give.

“It may range anywhere between 100,000 and 500,000 tons,” said a source aware of the negotiations.

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• Hands off Pakistan is the slogan on the Pakistan news media