Should Pakistan receive more help from the US?

Pakistan wants its share of nuclear play: After India managed to reach an agreement with the Bush Administration over a nuclear energy deal, Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan’s PM, has demanded that the US government give them the same kind of help.

Gilani met with George W. Bush this week and has made it clear that Pakistan should receive the same treatment as India.

“There should be no preferential, there should be no discrimination. And if they want to give civilian nuclear status to India, we would also expect the same for Pakistan too,” Gilani said at a press conference in Washington.

Now that sounds sensible, but the real question is: Hasn’t Pakistan already received a preferential treatment form the US since the 9/11 attacks in 2001 for its contribution to the fight on terror?