Here’s for the Doing More

By Ghalib Sultan

Holbrooke graced us with his presence in rapt concern for Pakistan's 'abilities to withstand' his dawning of no additional funding for the IDP crisis. In a joint press conference with Ms Khar, Minister of State for Economic Affairs, last week, he enlightened us of the deduction of USD 320 million announced in May for the IDP crisis, from the overall Annual Package with no additional funding to meet the compounded problems of IDPs and WoT.

Obama Administration that doesn't tire trumpeting the WoT cause seemed to have undergone a gigantic lapse of reasoning when it set Pakistan tripping on its toes over what was 'a global threat' only months ago. A country underway a critical roll-back to democracy with a lot to heal over on its plate had to be pushed to this point to get the Special Envoy (whose job is to worry about this region) to start speculating.

Only two months ago some of the most renowned analysts and intellectuals were going berserk over what can be called "an Anti-American Extremist Muslim Terrorists taking over Pakistani nukes phobia!" And so in frenzy all they did was pressing hard the infamous DO MORE button. And now with the vapor of such exclamations still wafting in air, Pakistan was to be suddenly reminded of the global financial crunch that conveniently bails out the world from taking their due turn at meeting the kinematics of this supposedly 'GLOBAL' War against Terrorism.

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