The thugs want the money but don't want to reform. These elites making noise are the ones who take bundles of American aid, eat the funds in corruption, still spout anti-American rhetoric, and support the Taliban while suppressing democracy and human rights of smaller nations like the Sindhis.

Let's hope President Obama sticks to his guns and follows through with trying to enforce it. He may have to then finally give up this strategy and face the fact that he will not get honest cooperation out of Pakistan and its brutal, fanatic and dangerous military.

Professor Agha,

I've followed your writing for many years.

In Punjab we are given to believe that the Whadera (landlord) system is perhaps the leading mechanisms of repression of Sindhis. We are told that the systems is brutal and repressive.

Does this understanding have any basis in Reality?

If it does I am curious on why I find little writing on the subject by someone like yourself and other Sindhis.