Please read comments by Minto. I did not bottle the argument to issue of pride. He is the one who raised the issue of pride first.
US is paying Pakistan only for the services provided,in fact should be paying a lot more for maintaining 80,000 of its troops on the Pakistan-Afghan border ,which Pakistan rather not be doing and for feeding and other attendent expenses for supporting Afghan refugees , as a result of US occupation and unleashing terror in Afghanistan.