Re: India's new COAS
this is so sad...as I was reading it..my mind raced back to my own country..look at the mess we r in. seriously. Just pause a second. They just had a new president..smooth transfer..new parliament..smooth transfer...new COAS..smooth transfer....compare that with us..President in UAE..negotiating for a deal to stick to his presidency..COAS in UAE..negotiating a safe exit...PM..has no idea what the hell is going on =/
and a key point that should be borne in mind is that "they" are not some vastly different people. Predominantly same culture except in past few decades, similarly pathetic religious superstitions if not worst, similarly pathetic poverty if not worst, similarly pathetic corruption; similarly diverse and in fact more diverse internal classes and so on.
So one has to ask the question what is wrong and different in Pakistan. I keep coming back to the simple difference: one country call itself secular. the other own calls itself islamic. Neither are perfectly what they claim to be. But there is your difference.
While one army is standing seige outside a mosque the other one is protecting an election and polling station.