Re: IS PAKISTAN PROGRESSING..........??
^ and also "roshan khayali" which is the new name for "bai-hiyai"...
Re: IS PAKISTAN PROGRESSING..........??
@ malhot
[in the 50s and early 60s Pakistan was progressing in a fast way, much more than all the 'tigers' of south east Asia !!
So what went wrong? To my thinking its ' Kashmir' - the self distructive obsession with it!!
1.The Army was being built up at the expense of every other sector of the economy. So education, health, infrastructure etc all were almost totally ignored.]
I agree that under the presidency of Ayub Khan Pakistan progressed and prospered. This is also true that before 1970 60% of the national budget was allocated to the army (now the figure is 25% of budget, i.e. 4% of GDP). But it is also a fact that Pakistan genuinely felt threatened by India. India never accepted the partition principle and the creation of Pakistan. Indians do accept the presence of 200 plus nation states in the world but when it comes to Pakistan they resort to the same old rhetoric of conspiracy theory, i.e. “divide and rule policy by the imperialists”. Kashmir is the living proof of the fact that Indians don’t accept the creation of Pakistan. They applied the partition principle (Muslim majority areas would form Pakistan and Hindu majority areas will constitute India) for the division of the provinces of Bengal and Punjab but when it comes to Kashmir they refuse to accept this principle. I wonder how can you apply a principle (i.e. to the division of Bengal and Punjab) without first accepting it?
[2. The Jihadi culture was nurtured to 'bleed India by a thousand cuts', today, they have brought the gun culture and the extremism in religion - this has lead to the Shia, Sunni killings. The Jihadis hold the people of pakistan to ransom. The whole world thinks Pakistan is a terrorist haven.]
The Jihadi culture is not something indigenous to Pakistan. It was a result of Soviet Union’s invasion and occupation of Afghanistan in 1979. Pakistan got involved because it had to defend itself from the clutches of communism and imperialism. And the world left us in this quagmire once the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan in 1988. Now the concentration is back on Afghanistan and once the situation stabilizes there, hopefully things will improve in the entire region.