I don't mean to challenge the current policy of evacuating Afghans who co-operated with the Canadian Forces.
My point, which I've echoed for 20 years, is that the policies before that disaster happened consistently avoided Pakistan. For those of us working in Pakistan, it looked like it was policy-driven. I've been to many conferences once where I have raised the issue, and I have not been reinvited, so I can only assume there's some sort of conspiracy.
My interpretation is that on the military side, the Canadian Forces largely deferred to their American counterparts, who held a pretty strong line on not including Pakistan for a variety of reasons.
For the aid community, I just assumed that they didn't want to complicate the process. As long as they were being subsidized by Canadian government help, they were satisfied with not having to address the Pakistan issue.
Certainly efforts to help those in Afghanistan now are not affected by whatever Pakistan thinks.