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Pakistans problems
SEIF A. SOMALYA, jeddah
The only time Pakistan had a vision and good governance was when Ayub Khan was at the helm, and even that didnt last long!
Pakistan was formed because a majority of Muslims in India thought that Hindu-Muslim divisions fanned by the British was irreconcilable. However, Islam doesnt provide for division of territories to settle populations on the basis of certain religious beliefs. If this were true, East Pakistan would not have seceded from Pakistan. Now the divide between political parties many of them based on religion or ethnic background seems unbridgeable. The lesson of East Pakistan has already been forgotten.
Many senior Balochi political veterans are openly calling for secession. Pakistan is finding out albeit painfully that just being Muslim has never created a durable political unity. If it were so we would have seen Arab world united into one political entity. They are not even one economic block.
Obsession with parity with a much bigger and prosperous India has landed Pakistan in the same situation as faced Soviet Union when it tried to seek equal status with the US. The result was the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Anyone closely following the Pakistani media gets the impression that Parliament has already been rendered irrelevant. Feudal lords and capitalists have a stranglehold on Pakistani politics.
How long the Pakistani people have to put with the type of Don Quixotic politics indulged in by PPP and MQM?
Nothing short of a military takeover by someone like Ayub Khan and immediate imposition of martial law is going to save Pakistan. The military has been the most powerful institution in Pakistan and there has never been a greater need for military intervention than now.
Pakistan
SEIF A. SOMALYA, jeddah
The only time Pakistan had a vision and good governance was when Ayub Khan was at the helm, and even that didnt last long!
Pakistan was formed because a majority of Muslims in India thought that Hindu-Muslim divisions fanned by the British was irreconcilable. However, Islam doesnt provide for division of territories to settle populations on the basis of certain religious beliefs. If this were true, East Pakistan would not have seceded from Pakistan. Now the divide between political parties many of them based on religion or ethnic background seems unbridgeable. The lesson of East Pakistan has already been forgotten.
Many senior Balochi political veterans are openly calling for secession. Pakistan is finding out albeit painfully that just being Muslim has never created a durable political unity. If it were so we would have seen Arab world united into one political entity. They are not even one economic block.
Obsession with parity with a much bigger and prosperous India has landed Pakistan in the same situation as faced Soviet Union when it tried to seek equal status with the US. The result was the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Anyone closely following the Pakistani media gets the impression that Parliament has already been rendered irrelevant. Feudal lords and capitalists have a stranglehold on Pakistani politics.
How long the Pakistani people have to put with the type of Don Quixotic politics indulged in by PPP and MQM?
Nothing short of a military takeover by someone like Ayub Khan and immediate imposition of martial law is going to save Pakistan. The military has been the most powerful institution in Pakistan and there has never been a greater need for military intervention than now.
Pakistan
