Do you honestly think that iran wields that sort of power over pakistan!?,honestly!?.Well if it did things would be very,very different indeed in pakistan.Do you really believe that if there were the sort of gas and oil riches for the taking in baluchistan,riches that could not only potentially provide pakistan with all the energy it would need but an economic bananza from selling any excess that would likely fix a lot of paks dire economic problems as well that pak wouldnt literally move heaven and earth to achieve this,do you not think that china at least would provide all the help it could as they would likely be profiting enormously both economically and energy wise from this.I know paks leadership is weak and incompetent but that goes well beyond weak and incompetent,that would be nothing less than treasonous not to mention stupid especially when one considers that they would have the opportunity to greatly enrich themselves out of any huge discoveries.
I know its tempting in pakistans case to look for external reasons for all of paks many,many problems,and in some cases there are some,but iran isnt one of them,as far as I can see iran doesnt profit at all from a wild lawless border region full of terrorists and smugglers,in fact iranians have often been the victims of these groups and iran has called on pak many times to try to improve security in this area with both nations governments pledging to improve cooperation to do just that.Iran wants good relations with pak,hell iran was even willing to continue with the ipi pipeline after india pulled out even when there was no good economic reason to do so,now one would have thought that pakistan would`ve jumped at the chance,but sadly no pakistan never built its section,never even got started,it came up with excuse after excuse after excuse as to why it couldnt,the real reason of course was that it had to put the interests of its vassal overlords ahead of its own tho I suspect there was also the cynical hope that perhaps iran might get desperate enough to build the whole thing for free,but that didnt happen of course.
In my opinion pakistans biggest external problems are its vassal/client state relationship with the us/west and the saudi/gulfies,only if and when it can free itself from this will it have any chance of standing on its own two feet as an independent sovereign nation and putting its own interests first instead of others and maybe then it can have a go at cleaning up the enormous corruption that seems to permeate all levels of the government.
Blaming iran might be a convenient scapegoat but it does absolutely nothing whatsoever to solve any and all of paks many real problems both external and internal.
