The US has been putting undue pressure on Pakistan for the past few weeks. Putting jingoistic rhetoric aside, we should dispassionately analyse the situation. This relationship is inherently unequal: a superpower and an impoverished third world country.
The US has had enough and if it decides to do something, there is scarce little that we can do. We might want to live with ‘national honour and dignity’ but we gave it up when we ceded it to non-state actors in the badlands of our country.
The US has a point but so does Pakistan. Both sides need to calm down and work towards a diplomatic solution. If both these parties have an irreversible fallout, the only winner will be terrorism. The region cannot achieve peace unless there is cooperation at the regional and international level.
SAMINA A
Lahore
