Magazine section of this week's DAWN (dated 20th July, 2008) notes the
sordid history of selling the nation to USA which started within two
weeks of independence in September of 1947 and remains uniterrupted
till this day:
Look at:
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/dmag4.htm
Once it gets archived next week, look at:
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/080720/dmag4.htm
Here's an excerpt from the article, "Defiance : A Matter of
Perception" by Humair Ishtiaq
"As recorded in history, the Quaid-i-Azam told Lord Ismay before
Partition that Pakistan would have to ally itself with one of the
superpowers. He enumerated three of them: the erstwhile Soviet Union,
the United States and the Great Britain. He ruled out the first one
immediately, and preferred the British over the Americans because
"after all, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't."
Yet, recorded in history is the fact that a mere two weeks after
independence, the government of Pakistan sounded out the US about
lending a couple of million dollars. As expected, nothing came out of it.
