Pakistan

I am a selfish person.

I heard from some news articles that US Gov gave $5 billion worth of F16 fighters to Pakistan. But US Gov was thinking ahead and put some conditions on that 'sale'.

The most important thing to look at is the “unprecedented” conditions attached by U.S. to the sale of F-16s to Pakistan. These include, among others, “a US (personnel’s) presence at Pakistani bases for very stringent monitoring of these jet fighters (for about 30 years).” In addition, these F-16s

– will be unable to operate in a heavily defended air space of another country (read: India, Afghanistan)

– will only be able to fly for a limited duration in a foreign country’s air space

– will be only able to fly missions approved by the U.S.

– will be unable to carry atomic weapons

– would not have electronic warfare (EW) programming capabilities for their radar warning receiver (RWR).

This means that these aircraft will have a pre-installed threat library and its RWR will only be able to identify non-NATO aircraft (meaning they can’t even see the U.S./NATO aircraft; same has to be true in case of the helicopter gunships possessed by Pakistan)

“A further disturbing revelation is the remark by senior US official John Hillen that the United States wanted to have access and influence in Pakistan and other similar nations through this strategic and military-to-military relationship precisely to prevent China from having that kind of relationship.” Also by signing this $5 billion plus deal, U.S. effectively prevented Pakistan from purchasing the Mirage fighters as this deal took care of all the money.

The fact I find disturbing is, how much money the military of Pakistan, and the President of Pakistan got, as back handers, from the US to do this.

I mean, there is a view in the minds of people like me, that there is a conditional way of doing Gov work. US with Pak. US with UK. US with Iran. In the world of murky politics we live in, FOR THE NATIONAL SECURITY, anything can be done.

Simple way to look at is the present situation of world economics. WE knew from 2003, the world is going into a economics catastrphy - a cat with a trophy up the cat's arse. But we carried on normal. Fuck the people who know about it. Listen to the jargon of the polititians.

Then the oil prices started spiralling up. We the common person in UK had to pocket out the difference. Yep tighten your frigging belt and cough up to pay the inflanotary rates put to us by the Gov. Then the oil prices went down. But it was not reflected by the prices at the pumps. It hurts everyone.

My little question is do our Gov listen to us, the people of this country or the Bankers in the world, who will not give a damn; as their families will prosper in the world as they have done in the past centuries.

Of course you must have a different view of the situation. If any one who cares read this, I will love you to keep a comment.



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