"Afraid we cant put the future of our nation on the line based on your 'guesses'."
Baring your belly is, indeed, radical and is an expression of my confidence that no harm would come by doing so. It's offered, btw, from 6,000 miles distant. However, your future is already in the hands of this man. Disagree with him and change HIS mind-
"India has never been a threat to Pakistan" and...
"I, for one, and our democratic government is not scared of Indian influence abroad."
Overnight your world would turn for the better as you rediscover vast resources heretofore unavailable. Zardari's correct, largely. His praetorian, Kiyani, hasn't uttered one word of disagreement. Fruit trucks are passing through the LOC.
Catch a clue...
Take it from a Pakistani, I'm really serious...you are reading WAAAAY too much into this. Politicans in Pakistan say alot of things they dont mean, I saw Zardari's interview where that comment about India never being a threat was all but retracted, he said that his comment was "we dont consider India a threat anymore because now we are too big and too strong a country".
Here we go:
Kayani is no "praetorian" to any corrupt civilian president who has spent all his life ridiculing the very country he is supposed to be leading. You are naive to think that Pakistan is such a dysfunctional country that just because the army chief hasnt over thrown the civilian president yet, this would be mean that Kayani and Zardari are all handy dandy or that some kind of underhand personal allegiance or sponsoring is involved.
Throughout the history of Pakistan there has been friction between the Army hierarchy and the politicians over mishandling over national security, but it hardly ever came to our attention in any big way, and whenever it did it was firmly denied by both sides. Musharraf never spoke openly against Nawaz Sharif before the coup, as never did Zia against Bhutto or Ayub against Mirza.
Besides there already have been many instances of friction, at least one of which you must have heard of
the whole ISI affair. Western analysts are quite keen to use that as proof of the monopoly of military influence on Pakistani state affairs. Catch a clue?
Zardari is so bloody unpopular, Im surprised that even a foreigner like you are taking him seriously. Like it or not, the military is the greatest and perhaps only constant in Pakistan.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the founder of Zardaris political party and the man Zardari and his wife so greatly venerate, was the one who said that Pakistan would make a nuclear bomb to oppose India even if it meant that the people of Pakistan had to eat grass. He was a bloody hawk and was responsible for formulating and proposing many (very bad) war plans against India including offensives to take Delhi when he was in power.
Like I said, Pakistani politicians say a million things but they dont really mean any of it, everything is up for change depending on where the cheap popularity is coming from. It would be most laughable if you were to suggest Zardari is capable of changing Pakistans birth policy as if he is a leader of the caliber and vision of Kemal Ataturk or something.
We know who our enemies are, we know who our friends are and we know who our untruthworthy friends are. For more than half a century Pakistan's policy in relation India has been constant, its not gonna change now baby so dont go all "catch a clue" on us.