Pakistan at 60 a Well-Written News Article (merged)

[Zabardast]

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@Aalsi

^ It is all in the training. Conscription has made Israeli army the fourth most powerful army in the world. That is the model that Pakistan should follow.

I thought Hazbullah was better than the Israeli army…

[shriek11]

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Actually alsi, the isreali armed forces command disagrees. They say that conscription [forced duty] is behind the failure of the army in 2006 summer offensive against hezbollah!

[Aalsi]

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^ I stand corrected. In that Pakistan should follow the Hizbullah model. :D

[shriek11]

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^^ We should lob ghans phoons rockets at India?

[initiator]

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Raza Pahlavi, in your excitement over the so called economic prosperity, it seems you missed this part....

@Abdali

In such an environment, politicians tend to come to power more through deals done within Pakistan's small elite than through the will of the people. Behind Pakistan's swings between military governments and democracy lies a surprising continuity of interests: to some extent, the industrial, military, landowning and bureaucratic elites are now all related and look after one another. The current rumours of secret negotiations going on between Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto, the exiled former prime minister, are typical of the way that the civil and military elites have shared power with relatively little recourse to the electorate.

This is exatly what I have said a few times in the past on this forum. No doubt that the economy is doing better, and as thefigures claim, the GDP is growing at 7%. However, the fundamental question is, whether the masses are reaping any benefits from that? Amidst all this pseudo economic prosperity lies the ever so widening income differential between the rich and the poor, and the rope getting tighter around the necks of the poor masses. The wealth is concentrated among the tightly knit circle of Pakistani elite. The government continues to fool the masses with the GDP growth figures, but in Development Economics this kind of growth has little value and is strongly criticized.