An understandable attitude in many respects, though the UK is also donating heavily to the aid programme even though we have widespread unemployment and an economy with a big enough hole in it to swallow the North Sea. Meanwhile, we're fighting at least one war which should have landed our ex-premier behind bars.
Pakistan's direct neighbours, incidentally, are India (which is more likely to launch a nuclear missile at Islamabad than an aid parcel), China (India's global supporter, just as the US has always counted on Pakistan as a regional puppet), Afghanistan (broke and engulfed in civil war) and Iran (which will probably ignore Pakistan's plight because of its US links, but may rethink on the grounds that Islamabad was no friend of Bagdad, and the enemy of my enemy, etc).
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Date: 2010-08-19 03:38 pm (UTC)Pakistan's direct neighbours, incidentally, are India (which is more likely to launch a nuclear missile at Islamabad than an aid parcel), China (India's global supporter, just as the US has always counted on Pakistan as a regional puppet), Afghanistan (broke and engulfed in civil war) and Iran (which will probably ignore Pakistan's plight because of its US links, but may rethink on the grounds that Islamabad was no friend of Bagdad, and the enemy of my enemy, etc).