The Kerry Lugar Bill

There are a multitude of Pakistanis who are all in strong support for the Kerry Lugar Bill on many grounds. The reasons for their arguments were two-fold: by debunking the reasons of the opposition and supporting their own motives on the basis of building constructive allies and social/economical perks.
Apathetic with the side of Pakistanis defending the bill, Shakir Hussain used the analogy of ‘Bakra eid’ to illustrate the oppositions poor manners. “It's Bakra Eid and your neighbor sends you some meat ..But then you send it right back saying that you didn't like the cut which was sent over, the tray was also not acceptable, and the neighbors should have put a better cloth to cover the meat… This is exactly the discourse which is happening all over Pakistan today… this is the stuff which Opposition politicians are using to hammer the government from all sides without mentioning that they loved Uncle Sam's dollars when they were in power.
Welcome to the Bakra Mandi where "analysis" occurs without even reading the content of this bill which is supposed to "erode" Pakistan's sovereignty.”
Concordantly, Sadiq Saleem talks about the political opportunism practiced by the so called ‘Ghairat’ lobby of Islamist political parties and right-wing conspiracy theorists who insist that the Bill is just another excuse on Americas’ part to control Pakistans army. Yet who had no problems when in 2007 US aid was provided only if Pakistan had agreed to “undertake a comprehensive military, legal, economic, and political campaign to” “eliminate” groups like Taliban, al-Qaeda and others and Americans saw proof of the same.
However, the staunch defenders of the Kerry Lugar Bill, unsatisfied with disproving just the oppositions claims proceeded to illustrate the objective and logical pros the bill presented Pakistan with. According to Muhammad Ahsan Yatu “Our economy may be big but our population and problems are much, much bigger. Given our resources which are almost negligible we need help. It is up to us to reject the Bill. The US can find new and willing friends; we cannot find a single friend who is willing to help us with as many dollars as are coming from the US.”
To those idealistic people who believe that Pakistan has a habit of relying on foreign aid and that is the only cause of its problems he replied “We should reduce our security and administrative expenditures and tax the rich as It will help us generate at least as much capital as we require to feed ourselves. However if neither army nor bureaucracy cooperate we cannot collect the additional taxes either. The wealth and asset distribution in Pakistan is grossly disproportionate to what a functional state must have. The 5% among us own whatever wealth and assets Pakistan has and the rest live either below or on the poverty line. The irony is that our civil-military bureaucracy and landed and moneyed elites, who are also our rulers, make up our privileged 5% class”.

The Kerry Lugar Bill shows great potential in financial assistance and in the words of the Bill defenders bring developments in the social sector and will pave the way to democracy.

References = http://www.new-pakistan.com/2009/10/14/growing-number-of-pakistanis-
defend-importance-of-kerry-lugar-bill?gclid=CPbJxJ3q-p0CFYwA4woduDbkpQ