Pakistan-->PUNKistan-->NUKistan-->BALKAN-istan-->NULL-istan: the dodo bird among the species of nations.
The Muslim brotherhood wrote off pakistan as if it is a dodo bird (an extinct flightless bird)
The runt of a pakistan was doomed to death by fragmentation at its very birth. Quaid-e-Azam - Mohammad Ali Jinnah - the founder-father of Pakistan was an effete intellectual runt and dwarf (though a string-bean, x-ray-looking scare-crow, too scary looking even for Halloween) to father a nation without (the wherewithal to run a nation) any means of support.--JPR
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Dawn. Opinion page. Dawn.com
No time or cause to fight By Kunwar Idris
In 1965 when India and Pakistan went to war, Indonesia, Iran and Turkey opened their armouries to us, and the Saudis, it was then believed, their treasury. Today, as Pakistan faces the Indian troops three times as many as its own on the Line of Control in Kashmir, there is not a word of sympathy from these four or any other Muslim country.
That is the net result of Pakistan's politics of madrassahs and jihad practiced during the intervening years. To avert war President Musharraf is banking only on "good sense to prevail in India" and on American intervention. It is as if our orthodox religious leaders and neo-religious political parties have remorselessly used Islam to isolate Pakistan from the rest of the Muslim world. While President Musharraf reaps the whirlwind of the wind they had sown, he must add to that his own three dithering years. Two decades of jihad thus has given Pakistan a militant image without bringing peace or liberty either to Afghanistan or to Kashmir.
Instead, it has inflicted enormous death and privations on both with no end in sight. For Pakistan it has been an all-round costly bargain, for its own internal cohesion stands shattered by free flow of arms and a violent schism. How well and long Pakistan can fight and hold back an invading India which admittedly has three to one superiority men and arms, conventional and nuclear, is for the commanders and war experts to say. The obvious feeling the common people without authority (called "civil society" in the World Bank jargon) have is that it is no time to fight and there is no reason to fight.
The statements by some political leaders and stories in Pakistan's own press about the guerilla training camps in Azad Kashmir and elsewhere fly in the face of the now trite official contention that Pakistan's support to popular uprising in Kashmir is no more than political, moral and diplomatic. When our own people do not believe it, how would the rest of the world? |
