And this preferred buyer?
The scary Scar.
Pakistan has recently received another set of US demands (we seem to be getting used to these now). "Submit or you shall be sent to the Stone Age." Oh no, not that again!
More precisely, the demands goes this way.
We would like the following facilities for our military and auxiliary personnel:
- Status parallel to the embassy staff (diplomatic immunity!)
- Entry and exit without a visa
- Accept legality of US licenses, including arms licenses
- Allowed to wear uniform and carry arms
- US criminal jurisdiction to be applicable on US nationals
- Exemption from all taxes
- Inspection-free import and export of all goods and materials
- Free movement of vehicles, vessels including aircraft, without landing or parking fees
- Selected US contractors should also be exempted from tax payments
- Free of cost use of US telecom systems and using all necessary radio spectrum
- Waiver of all claims to damage to loss or destruction of others’ property, or death to personnel or armed forces or civilians
It's outrageous, you say? Remember that notorious phone call from Ricky? And how Mushi huffed and puffed and signed the Afghan war agreement? Wasn't that outrageous? That started what followed, didn't it? That one small step for Musharraf became one giant leap for the US. But you know what? Sometimes man has to do what a man has to do. That decision probably saved Pakistan from going back to the Stone Age. This time it probably will be done to save us from the Dinosaurs era. Those were deadly animals, you know.
We are use to it. Whatever the Field Marshal United States of America says. We follow the orders.
"Yes, Sir. At your service, sir."
Hi, I am Nauman Faridi, an IT professional and a Toastmaster from the foothills of Himalayas. Faridinama is a place for me to vent my feelings.





1 comments:
Nice post and good blog design.
Here is something I have written, from another angle.
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