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Pakistan lost Sovereignty bit by bit over a period of 57 years for want of Foriegn Aid. When immediatly after independence, quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah administration seeking $2 billion economic assistence. When PM Liaquit Ali Khan & Khwaja Nazi-u-Din renewed the request particularly when the letter by Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was deleviring to US two days after his assassination. When Commander in Chief, General Ayub Khan discreetly negotiated by the lease of badbair to the US and sought to renegotialte it. When Pakistan sought a loin from the US and the US National Security Advisor forwarded it to President Johnson with the remarks "Here is another gimme. What can i do if i am responsible for half of the beggers of the world"? When the chief of President Carter`s Nuclear Task Force told Agha Shahi" You are entering the valley of death ," however , at the first prospectus of resumptions of US aid after soviet invansion of Afghanistan, Zia asked US National Security Advisor," Why do yopu not ask for bases in Pakistan?" When during his 1997 visit to UD, Nawaz Sharif stayed in one of the most expansive hotels of Washington DC and called upon the World bank and IMF to seek more aid , leading BBC to commentthat "no third world leader have ever come so royally to Washington to Beg," However , Pakistan would be completely stripped of the remarks of its sovereignty if teh `great cover up` engineered by the financial bureaucracy during the Musharraf era is allowed to go unearthed. The cover up is nothing but part of the efforts by Pakistan`s ruling elite to ensure that Pakistan`s past is Pakistan`s future. The book exposes all these and much more.
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