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Pakistan's Future:
An Indian's Viewpoint |
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by Dr. Subhash Kapila |
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The result of these sixty years of Pakistan's existence as a 'garrison state' where the Pakistan Army has gone in for military coups, every time democracy was about to strike roots, is that Pakistan's future seems dismal. Pakistan's future, if it seems dismal, is not due to any diabolical Indian designs to fragment Pakistan. Pakistan has been brought to its present dismal state, because of the megalomaniac obsessions of its military rulers and its bureaucratic elites, of imperial pretensions of harking back to Mughal grandeur and the divine right of Muslims to rule Hindustan. Pakistan in these sixty years of its existence has been in a constant 'state of denial' about its strategic asymmetries with India. To redress the existing asymmetry it has resorted to balance India by offering itself as a 'rental state'( in the words of a noted Pakistani analyst) to USA and China. Pakistan has not succeeded in this game as despite Pakistan acting as a regional destabilizer it has failed to arrest India's emergence as a regional power and a key global player. At the beginning of the 21st Century the stark reality is that India is on an ascendant curve towards remarkable economic growth whereas Pakistan continues to be in the mire of a 'garrison state' and a 'rental state'. It cannot survive without an American economic life support system and military support of China. By no stretch of imagination can this be termed as the attributes of a nation with imperial pretensions. It is now becoming evident to the Pakistani masses that their military rulers have led them to this dismal state of affairs, when they compare India's relative progress in all fields to their own. To the growing peace constituency emerging in the Pakistani masses, which want peace with India, this author as an average Indian would like to project to them the following viewpoints:
India has gone out of the way to promote peace with Pakistan, not from a position of weakness but from a confidence of its inherent strengths and a firm conviction that a stable and democratic Pakistan is in its own interests of having a stable neighborhood. A democratic Pakistan devoid of military control by Pakistan Army Generals is the only solution for Pakistan to wade away from the muck that its military rulers have placed it in, including the present one. If Nepal within a span of few weeks could dramatically replace the existing order and usher in democracy with peoples power, what holds back the dynamic people of Pakistan ? |
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25-Jun-2006 | ||
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