A piecemeal and voluntary ceding of sovereignty

In fact, if we look at a map of Pakistan and plot out the areas of US presence, both covert and overt, a web-like structure is created within which are located all our sensitive and strategic assets. Beginning from the coast to Shamsi base on the Balochistan-Iran border, to Bandari in interior Balochistan; to Gharo (and perhaps Petaro); to Faisalabad (still a maybe), Rawat, Islamabad and further to Tarbela and Peshawar; and it requires no genius to understand the Americans far-reaching physical tentacles across this country. Add to this the free run of the country they seem to have been granted and it is hardly surprising to find they are not prepared to give Pakistan any control over the aid they may eventually disburse.
Are there alternatives to this willing capitulation before the US? Certainly there are. Of course the most desirable would be to have the government distance itself from the US, seek alternative sources of financial inputs like compelling the ruling elite to bring back their money stored abroad and ending corruption. But that hardly seems viable. An easier alternative is simply to realise that the US is not handing us charity but is luring us with promises of aid because it needs our support in Afghanistan. So we do not have to actually lay ourselves prostrate before them but can retain our dignity even as we accept their aid with all the strings that are always attached. There is something sickening in the desperation the leadership seems to be showing in laying its hands on the green bucks. It is this that the US is taking full advantage of as it seeks to bring Pakistan into the ambit of neo-colonialism. Too bad for the Americans and our leadership, the Pakistani nation will not accede to this design. They are already proving to be the main stumbling block in the US design for Pakistan.