Open Letter To Citizens Of the U.S « Pak Alert Press

 Note to Readers,

I am passing on the letter below because I think it deserves a wider audience. I do not quite know its veracity or authorship, but it does give a point of view that needs to be heard by the American people.

I have opposed the War of Terror on Terror from its inception and continue believe that the US needs a thoughourly revised foreign policy that is not meddlesome and is not filled with hubris.

I am very concerned about our actions in Pakistan and our driving the Pakistani military to harm and displace those within its borders. The offensive in South Warzistan is the current example.

Military attacks and bribery by foreign aid will not bring peace.

AGW

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Dear Citizens of United States,

We Pakistanis are ordinary beings like you, having the same dreams, same needs, ambitions, emotions, reservations and same passion if not more for our country. We like you, to feel the same regret for wars, same grief for the world problems, same distress towards injustice, same hopes for a better tomorrow. We, like you, also fantasize having serene borders, comfortable homes for our children, fine education, some leisure, and a satisfied mind that what we are contributing to this country and the world at large today will benefit us and our future generations tomorrow. We fancy the feeling of living in sheer coziness of our homeland, away from overseas interventions and foreign-extremism in the exact same way as an average American desires.

We didn’t get our independence as a birthday present, we got it after much struggle and sacrifices (over 4 million lives were lost during the migration); after much strangling and many fatalities, we finally broke free of the quandary at the hands of British and Hindu rulers. After independence, we have shown remarkable progress in many areas despite having rulers who placed personal interests over national interests, who never really had to face the trauma of poverty, sickness, injustice, or leaving their loved ones behind to inhabit a land with no promises. Yet we did not give up and made a nation out of it. We did not fail as our current leaders try to put it, to solicit more and more aid to gratify their own greed. In our short history we have never been blessed with a true leader after our founder, and yet imagine our courage, we did not break down, we moved on and on. And we never really looked for shortcuts to this existence, we have paid plenitude.

We have now been presented with yet another aid package from your country which will be financed by American taxpayers money, which is the right of American citizens and on which we have got no claim.

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