The news that is coming out of Pakistan is chilling. For all practical purposes, it has fallen to the taliban. For long, Pakistan has nourished on hate-India policy. Not only for the power seekers but also for the common people, hating India has been the favourite nourishment. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had vowed that Pakistan would eat grass but would for sure make an Islamic bomb, to be used against India was implicit.
Now that they have made their Islamic bomb, they are nearly eating grass. Barack Obama has offered huge assistance to Pakistan to stand on its feet! How ridiculous. Someone who has kneeled down is supposed to stand up?!?!
The tragedy is that Pakistan has nuclear weapons, but no guts (and probably political will also) to protect its nuclear installations and knowledge from falling to hardliners including taliban. Zardari has already said of non-state players active in Pakistan who attacked Mumbai. SWAT has fallen, Karachi is under threat. Can the whole of Pakistan be far behid?
The problem that the world faces is, should Pakistan be let to succumb to its politico-religion based foolhardiness beautifully supplemented by the economic recession? To let open its nuclear installations to rogue hardliners, who are no less than dumbs cutting the branch of tree they are sitting on. Or, should Pakistan be helped out of recession as well as enabling it fight the hardliners? But, will Pakistan ever fight the hardliners? Seems impossible. They have already reached the point-of-no-return. Obama himself has stated that the money Pakistan gets in assistance is used against India. This is a catch 22 situation.
The remedy, one feels, is that a failed Pakistan is a security, nay survival, threat for the whole world. If Pakistan survives it will keep doing what it loves doing best -- hate India. It is better that an international conglomerate, that must include India, under the aegis of the Unitaed Nations should takeover the reigns in Pakistan and do the needfull. If need be, parts of Pakistan be broken merged into neighbouring states like India, Afghnistan, Iran and Russia.
One wonders why the story of Bhasmasur (भस्मासुर) not populaised among the political elite of the world. It tells that if you prop up a demon, it finally kills, or tres to kill, you. Indira and Rajiv Gandhi learnt it the hard way. Taliban (once raised by the US to fight Russia/USSR) is now enemy no. 1 o the US iself. So is happening with Pakistan.
Mr. Obama! Think something more proactive, and more effective. Don't follow the trodden bureaucratic line of solution. Or, just Watch Out.
