Opium addicts rejoice

Recently, American Assistant Secretary of State said that Pakistan would not get cash but only technical assistance from America. A Pakistani economist sharply reacted. According to him, the statement was an insult. Pakistan desperately needed cash and not technical assistance.

Unfortunately, the economist was ignorant of the reality. He was unable to understand Mr Boucher's real intention. Mr Boucher knows that cash robberies are rampant in Pakistan. American cash must excite the Pakistani robbers. Mr Boucher wants Pakistan to be a robbery free country. His concern for Pakistan is touching! Three cheers for Mr Boucher! Pakistan has been eternally cash-starved. She has been eternally borrowing money from wherever it should be borrowed. She was born with a borrowing-bowl in her hands.

So far, we have borrowed whole tankfuls of money. But we have never told the masses the reality. We have always told them that the borrowed money was not borrowed money but an 'aid'. We hate to call a cobra a cobra. We love to call it a honey-bee. Whenever, the masses are mistold that a loan is not a loan but an 'aid' they rejoice. They rejoice because they love to be deceived. Is genuine 'aid' money repayable? But a loan which we get and miscall it 'aid' is repayable with monstrous interest. Let's stop calling a loan an 'aid'. Let's call it what it really is. But we are scared. We just don't know how the masses might react if they were told the monstrous reality.