For the government, the Kerry-Lugar Bill is all angelic. But for the opposition it is all demonic. The opposition has denounced the bill. The government has embraced it. Had the opposition been in power, it would have behaved as the government has behaved. And had the government been in opposition it would have behaved as the opposition has behaved. Normally, a politician has two moralities: a power-morality and an opposition-morality. When a politician gets power, he dustbins the morality which he practised as an opposition politician. And when he loses power, he kills his power-morality and re-embraces his opposition-morality. The Kerry-Lugar Bill lays down certain conditions. For the government the conditions are harmless. But for the opposition, they are disgraceful. Obviously, the dispute is a creation of the two kinds of political morality. For the government, the aid smells deliciously. But the oppositions nostrils smell certain nauseous motives behind the conditions. The opposition believes that the aid ought to have been as motives-free as Platonic love. The opposition should know that the American Congress is not a charity institution. It cannot dole out the public money to Pakistan Platonically. Politics is by birth allergic to humanitarianism. There is no business more barbaric than the political business at the international level. Unfortunately, our country has always been a political boxing-ring. The boxing game has its strict playing rules. But our political boxing has been rules-free. Throughout our history, the political parties have been hitting each other with full ferocity. Luckily, each party has been injury-proof. But unluckily, each blow has always injured the masses. The injured masses have always looked miserably at the skies. The skies have always laughed. We have experienced all sorts of government. We have had feudal governments. We have had military governments. We have had democratic governments. Almost under every government, the masses were miserable. It is not known which government laid the foundations for the misery of the masses. If our future historians succeeded in discovering under which government the masses were most miserable then that government should be awarded a golden trophy posthumously. Somehow, our foreign donors suspect that we misuse our foreign aid. We firmly believe that a donor has no right to probe what we do with the aid money. Once the money is in our pocket, it becomes our legal property. Being our property we have a right to do with it whatever we fancy to do. The donors suspicion is a crude intrusion into our privacy. The donor must be cautious. Otherwise, we might a file a lawsuit against the donor at the Hague. The Kerry-Lugar money is not charity money. It is a payment for the anti-terrorism war we are fighting at Americas behest. We are getting dollars. But we are paying them back with our blood. Dollars for blood What a simple business Initially, the government hugged KLB but with a little bit of reservation. When America refused to pollute the bill with even a minor amendment, the government swallowed the reservation. It is said that everything is fair in love and war. Lets pity the ignorance of the author of this maxim. Had he known even a little bit of politics, he would never have uttered the maxim. Instead, he would have trumpeted: What is fair in politics is not fair even in love and war. Would the Kerry-Lugar money bring about our salvation? Never Throughout our history we have been getting American aid. The money has always been loyal to America. Instead of solving our problems, it created more and more problems for us. But we hate to learn. We have become aid-addict. Actually, it is American money which fights American wars. Every aid dollar is a potential bullet for the aid receiver. We believe that we are a sovereign nation. Unfortunately, we have not been able to look after our affairs ourselves. For this purpose, we keep borrowing and begging from abroad. The more we borrow and beg, the stronger grows our faith in our sovereignty The writer is an academic.