Who is calling who a stooge, you a Chinese marionette? Seriously, Pakistan's internal fissures along ethnic, military-civilian, economic, elite-pedestrian / egalitarian, and geographic fault lines are the stuff of national disintegration. Add to that recipe for self-destruction, religious fanaticism. It is not India, it is not Washington, it is not Israel - the axis - that will ring the death knell for Pakistan. When the money runs out, credit worthiness becomes abysmal, the treasury is looted and empty, the military goes unpaid, and the fundamentalists run rampant -as if they aren't doing it now, balkanization will become a reality. The resulting nation-states will be named: Balkanistan, Punkistan, Talbanistan, etc
The Indians had encounters with many Raksasas - demons - before. Vajpayee is very knowledgeable in the ways of Raksasas.
The Indians will feed the General a lot of beans which will bloat his ego, will make him look larger than life and give him a dreamy chance for a Nobel Peace Prize. I bet the General thought of being a candidate for a Nobel peace / piece Prize. -JPR
dawn.com
Preparing for the coming summit By Mohammad Waseem
Secondly, they are propagating vigilance against a possible sell-out to India. This reflects an inherent mistrust of the state as the 'other' which is supposed to be run by western stooges amenable to pressure from Washington.
The leadership factor would be crucial in the forthcoming summit. Gen. Musharraf was demonized by the Indian media for nearly two years. |
