Pakistans Failures

In 2005 Pakistan ranked 34 in the list of “Top Failed States of the world”, when the list was first published.

Today, in 2007, Pakistan is now ranking at position 12 in the same list! Look at the massive jump in just a span of 2 years of the Musharaff led military rule, towards becoming the top most failed state! Even at position 12, Pakistan is not there because it is better than 11 other top failed states, but is there because there are 11 other states like Sudan, Congo, Somalia etc that are even worse than Pakistan! Even countries like North Korea, Bangladesh and Uganda are ranking better than Pakistan in the list!

Failure of Democracy

The very fact that no elected government in Pakistan has completed its full term in these 60 years proves the gross failure of Democracy as an idea in Pakistan.

The very fact that for over 40 years the country has been under military rule and continues to be under military rule even today proves the failure of democracy there.

Musharraff was just about to impose emergency in the state a few days back! I don’t think he has dropped the plan, he has just postponed it.

Failure of the idea of a state

The first great failure of the idea of the state of Pakistan occurred in 1971. The till then East Pakistan revolted against the very idea of Pakistan and emerged as an independent nation called Bangladesh. This very break up proved that fact that the idea of a Islamic Nation in the form of Pakistan was wrong. Even today more muslims live in India than in Pakistan itself! The partition of India broke the country into two pieces in 1947, the first logical end of this was reached when Pakistan itself got broken into two pieces after that in 1971.

Failure of Science and Technology

Just like any other fundamentalist Islamic state, Pakistan has been a big flop in the field of science and technology. There have been no worth while scientific contributions that have come out of this country in the past 60 years. How can one expect any scientific research from a country where the youth are trained how to tie bombs around themselves and explode! Where the youth are recruited to cause destruction and havoc all over the world, including inside Pakistan!

Its nuclear tests in 1998 were as a response to the Indian tests and not a real test to test its weapons capability. The world scientific community laughed at Pakistan for this immature act.

Its missile tests always take place in response to Indian missile tests. I don’t think this is a scientific process of conducting any tests. The whole world knows that Pakistani missiles are of Chinese and North Korean origin.

Its top scientist, the so called Father of Pakistani nuclear bomb (or the Islamic Bomb as they would prefer to call it), A Q Khan, ran a nuclear black market selling the nuclear technology to other nations and groups. He had stolen blue prints of nuclear centrifuges in Netherlands and even today has a non bailable arrest warrant against him in Netherlands for this crime. Such is the story of its top scientist, who under pressure from Musharraff had to come on the national television and issue a public apology for letting down the nation! Pakistan is a black listed nuclear state in the world today!

During the Kargil War Which some Pakistani fools claim to be their Victory

International concerns increased when Pakistani foreign secretary Shamshad Ahmad made a statement on May 31 warning that an escalation of the limited conflict could lead Pakistan to use "any weapon" in its arsenal. This was immediately interpreted as a threat of nuclear retaliation by Pakistan to India in the event of an extended war.

Following that
The leader of Pakistan's senate noted, "The purpose of developing nuclear weapons becomes meaningless if they are not used when they are needed.

USA was Vey Tensed and called Sharif and threatened him of its dire consequence..Following that Sharif called back his army men from kargil.


Sharif later claimed in his official biography that General Pervez Musharraf had moved nuclear warheads without informing him.

Following that
Recently however, Pervez Musharraf revealed in his memoirs that Pakistan’s nuclear delivery system was not operational during the Kargil war; something that would have put Pakistan under serious disadvantage if the conflict went nuclear war.

Failure of Religion

Religion as an idea has failed in keeping Pakistan together as a nation. The separation of Bangladesh was the first failure.

But a bigger threat lies on Pakistan today, in the form of the possible separation of Baluchistan. The Baluchis are not happy with the state of Pakistan and want a separate nation for Baluchistan.

Look at the documentary videos here which shows in detail the fight for an Independent Baluchistan and the reason behind the struggle.

Similarly there is also a movement going on for an independent Sindhudesh

Some even feel that the division of Pakistan is the only way to root out terrorism.

Success of Religious Extremism

Hasan Askari, former head of the Political Science Department of the Punjab University, Pakistan, says “that Pakistan can no longer be described as a moderate and tolerant society”.

Which is of course true, given the fact that even the orphans of earth quake victims were not spared and were recruited by the terrorist organizations in Pakistan!

The recent Lal Masjid incident proves this once again. Given the threat from this terrorist state, US has talked of military actions on Pakistan.

There is a resurgent Taliban and AlQaida in Pakistan today, and Musharraff is simply not able to control it or perhaps does not want to control it. As many say, he is probably playing hunting with the hounds and running with the hare by being with the US and allies on the war against terrorism on one side, and supporting the same terrorists against India and Afghanistan on the other side!

Even the action at Lal Masjid was taken by Musharraff because of the Chinese pressure as the Chinese nationals were kidnapped by the terrorists.

The Way Ahead

The common man of Pakistan is the answer to all its problems. The common man has to come out on the streets, take over the government, form a true democracy, reject all forms of religious intolerance and extremism, and develop the country.

The common man till to date has been a silent voice in Pakistan. It is the opportunistic politicians, military, ISI that have been playing the cards to decide the Pakistani future. It is high time that the common man in the streets of Pakistan takes charge of the country. Unless this happens, there is little hope for Pakistan.

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Pakistans U Turns: On Bhutttos Death

In a dramatic U-turn, Pakistan government has "apologised" for claiming that former premier Benazir Bhutto died of a skull fracture after hitting the sunroof of her car during a suicide attack.

Caretaker Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz Khan has asked the media and people to "forgive and ignore" comments made by his ministry's spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema which were slammed by her Pakistan People's Party as "lies" and led to an uproar at home and abroad.

The Interior Minister made the apology during a briefing for Pakistani newspaper editors on Monday. Punjab province on Tuesday issued a front-page advertisement in newspapers that offered a reward of Rs 1 crore for information about a gunman and a suspected suicide bomber seen in the photos and video footage of the assassination.

The government's apparent damage control exercise on Cheema's comments made at a news conference a day after Bhutto was assassinated at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on December 27, came after TV channels aired privately shot photos and video footage which showed a gunman shooting at Bhutto.

The Pakistan People's Party leader is seen in the footage falling through the sun-roof before the suicide bomber detonated his explosives. The briefing by caretaker Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro was also attended by the foreign, interior and information ministers and senior officials.

"Editor after editor lambasted the government for its non-serious attitude towards the tragedy, specially the statement that Bhutto had died by hitting the lever and not (due to) a bullet or shrapnel," The News reported.

During the briefing, an editor asked why spokesman Cheema had said that a lever on the sun-roof had caused a fatal injury when the manufacturers of the car and Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari had stated that there was no metallic lever that could have caused the wound.

Khan said the spokesman's comments may have been a mistake as "we are faujis (soldiers) and we are not so articulate to present our views as you journalists can". Both the interior minister and spokesman Cheema are retired army officers.

"I am sorry if that happened and please forgive us and ignore the comment," he told the editors. Earlier, Prime Minister Soomro tried to defend the interior ministry's spokesman, saying he was just relaying facts that had been told to him, especially about the cause of death.

"We are conducting an investigation and all TV footage, all evidence, that would be available will help in reaching a definite conclusion," Soomro told the editors.

But the editors asked more questions, especially with reference to the medical report of doctors of Rawalpindi General Hospital who treated Bhutto.

They "emphatically pointed out that the report quoted by the spokesman never mentioned the cause of the head injury" to Bhutto. The report only said there was a skull fracture which caused cardio-pulmonary arrest, the editors pointed out. Soomro then referred the issue to Interior Minister Khan. He explained in detail the security measures taken and asserted that Bhutto had a bulletproof vehicle which could not be damaged by a bomb or bullets.

Once she was inside it, she was secure and police vans were trying to keep her car clear of other vehicles. But when she emerged from the sun-roof she exposed herself to an attack, Khan said.

"Nothing would have happened to her even if every one in the world had wanted to hurt her," the Minister added. Soomro was repeatedly asked whether he would allow a foreign investigation into the murder but he asserted that Pakistani experts were competent to do the job.

His denial raised questions from the editors about the offer made by President Pervez Musharraf to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to consider foreign help in probing the assassination.

Meanwhile, the advertisement issued by Punjab's Home Ministry included two photos of the suspected assailant and the severed head of the suspected bomber.

"The public is hereby informed that the two individuals in the above photographs are the accused terrorists in the Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi terror attack, which resulted in the death of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and others," it said.

"The government of Punjab has announced a cash award of Rs 1 crore for lead information and any solid evidence." The advertisement said the names of persons providing any information would be kept "strictly confidential". It also sought the cooperation of the people for "dismantling of terrorist network".