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Rising prices and the war in Afghanistan

In Karachi the norm was that electricity load shedding never took place during winter months, because people had stopped using air conditioners. But strangely enough load shedding started in late 2001 when US forces arrived to invade to Afghanistan. Then food and fuel prices started rising as the war has raged on for almost 10 years. The cost of electricity has risen but the load shedding has not stopped. The cost of food prices, fuel prices have gone up.
There can be only one logical explanation for this, the US forces need to be fed and they should be comfortable in the bases provided in Pakistan and in Afghanistan. This war is costing the USA a great deal of money. Special weapons and equipment require to be kept at specific temperature. The US has increased the number of its soldiers in Afghanistan - hence more demand for food, electricity and fuel. The people in Pakistan are suffering this outrageous price increase. Meat used to be Rs 80 per kilogramme now it has become Rs 400 per kilogramme which is 5 times more. The cost of transporting beef from the US would cost $10 per kilogramme but from Pakistan it is $4 per kilogramme. a $6 difference.
The most electricity consuming item are the morgues. No one knows how many US soldiers are in them, but the numbers are rising. When Pakistan cannot meet the electricity requirement of the US armed forces, those morgues are most likely to be affected. Bodies will be left to rot but not transported back to the US. Families in the USA who lost their children in this war will never know about them being dead. Field medical teams require electricity. When there will not be any electricity, soldiers will remain wounded and let them die because the doctors will not be able function.
Afghanistan does not have any infrastructure. The war with Russia destroyed what remotely resembled infrastructure and the US left Afghanistan with bothering to rebuild the country. The US returned later not to help Afghanistan but to destroy whatever little infrastructure that was left.
There are too many expectations from Pakistan, provide food, fuel, electricity and life. Life as in letting the US kill Pakistanis with their drones. The US does not care about its 'key ally against terrorism'. For all the support Pakistan is giving to the US armed forces are killing Pakistanis that is how Pakistan is being rewarded for its support
Now the news is that US is considering options of invading Pakistan. The USA can never be trusted.

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