Brother, I would not argue with you as I did write that Pakistan was failed state before 2000 depends on who one is and how one looks at things.
As for a state to be failed or not, a person is not talking about things that is yet to come but things that has already gone, so records and figures are in front of people. Anyhow, to see the figures and truth also needs some knowledge and intelligence, as many devil thugs of corrupts have started propaganda of impossibility backed with ridiculous lies, and many Pakistanis with low intellect accept their propaganda, however ridiculous and illogical. Anyhow, for those with some intelligence and knowledge, state of Pakistan throughout different periods is well documented and one only needs to check things up to know everything, whatever happened to Pakistan during different periods.
Saleem Sahib, I can show you countless articles, AFTER 1999, and BEFORE 2008, where Pakistan was nationally cited as a failed state. That is no different from what they were saying before 1999, and after 2008. Infact, we might have been a poor economic state before 1999, but atleast things were peaceful, compared to the woes of suicide bombing, civil war, and chaos we have seen in this decade.