Why is a sitting Prime Minister publicly thanking foreign leaders for donations, loans, bailouts not a national taboo in Pakistan? : pakistan

I remember visiting India in 1991 and the crisis was seen by the country as a 'national shame never to be brought upon again'. Politicians actually felt humiliated in front of the people, rightly so, but still they did not go overboard and started thanking donors, loan-givers etc in public out of self-respect. Exact same thing happened in South Korea. Even when they are down, these countries still maintain a degree of self-respect.

Lol, lmao. They're demoralizing themselves so much better than our trolls ever could

Repeat beggars lose all shame at some point.

It’s a fairly bipartisan national trait, us being beggars. Not taking shots at PDM/SS.

If you want to simply vent about how much you dislike PDM, go ahead. But don't frame this as a "self-respect" thing, because we haven't had any for a long time.

Pakistan has been kept in poverty and failure for so long, several generations of people have grown up in this landscape thinking that Pakistan is a poverty country with crappy leaders which is no chance of picking itself up.

Has been kept

The USA (and everyone else in general) has also taken advantage of this and easily waves away Pakistan as some bum middle east hobo country which nobody cares about, despite having the 5th largest population in the world and having nukes which other countries can only dream of attaining.

We are thanking because we have no plans to correct our course, Indian liberalized it's economy after 1991, South Korea too after Asian financial crises in late 1990s. But, we will not take those painful structural reforms because we have in our back of mind this concept, we will be bailed out as world cannot afford a nuclear state gone bankrupt.