[Reader-list] "Twelve steps to shock-and-awe Pakistan’s economy'- Prof R Vaidyanathan in DNA

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Javed
 
To carry forward your analogy. It would be more like Vaidyanathan advocating "Economic Chemotherapy". 
 
The question however is whether that would kill the "bad cells" or the "good cells". Which ones would survive; which ones would mutate; which ones would gallop-multiply.
 
Excising out  all 'cancer cells' is possible only when they are localised and can be identified as being so. Once a cancer reaches the "lymph nodes" it courses through the body. Even if you cut out the 'primary' site, it would rear up in many a 'secondary' locations.
 
Kshmendra

--- On Thu, 12/18/08, Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] "Twelve steps to shock-and-awe Pakistan’s economy'- Prof R Vaidyanathan in DNA
To: kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com
Cc: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 8:49 PM

What Vaidyanathan means is that if you want to eradicate cancer, kill
the cancer patient. Or rather kill all cancer patients so that others
don't get infected.
I know people will take my statement as an anti-India statement, but
to me it looks like if you have cancer in your left arm, then you cut
that off to save the body.


On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> A column in the newspaper DNA (of 9th Dec '08)  by Prof R Vaidyanathan
has been coming up often during discussions in Pakistani Media on the current
India-Pakistan equations. It is being cited as defenitive proof in support of
the viewpoint that India seeks to destroy Pakistan. Not without due reason.
>
> Vaidyanathan is no "airra gairaa nathu khairaa" (just any Indian
non-entity). He is a Professor of Finance and Control at the Indian Institute of
Management (IIM) - Bangalore. Not a sloganeering Politician (let us wage war on
Pakistan) or a dimwit Simi Garewal (let us carpet bomb Pakistan). Not an idiot.
Or, is he not?
>
> Those who (ostensibly out of love for India)  speak about the (physical or
economic) destruction of Pakistan, do not seem to realise that any
disintegration of Pakistan is more than likely going to increase the threats to
the security of India.
>
> Kshmendra
>
> "Twelve steps to shock-and-awe Pakistan's economy "
> Prof R Vaidyanathan
> Tuesday, December 09
>
> (Economic destabilisation of the Terror Central is imperative for rooting
out terror.)
>
> I did not anticipate the huge response my inbox received for the article
last week (December 2) slamming Pakistan. Many of those who wrote in have sought
concrete steps to tackle the Terror Central. The terror attack on world citizens
at Mumbai has created revulsion and outrage all over the world. It is imperative
that India seize the opportunity provided to destabilise Pakistan.
>
>
> A stable Pakistan is not in the interest of world peace, leave alone
India. Army controls the country and owns its economy. A significant portion of
its GDP is due to army-controlled entities (See Military Inc Inside
Pakistan's Military Economy by Ayesha Siddiqa; OUP; 2007). One can easily
say that Pakistan Economy and its Army/ISI are synonymous.
>
>
> Unless this elementary fact is internalised, we are not going anywhere.
This implies we should stop talking of a stable Pakistan since a stable Pakistan
means multiple attacks on many more cities of India by that rogue organisation
ISI, which is the core of the Pakistan Army and the heart of Pakistan's
economy.
>
>
> Let us not even assume that Zardari is in control. Poor man - he did not
trust his own investigators to probe his wife's assassination - he wanted
Scotland Yard to do the job. Now he blabbers that if his investigators are
satisfied, then he will initiate action against terrorists sitting inside
Pakistan. Periodically, the Pakistan Army likes to present some useful idiots
(as Lenin would have called them) as elected representatives and we swoon over
such events.
>
>
> India should take the following steps to destabilise the economy of
Pakistan:
> n Identify the major export items of Pakistan (like Basmati rice, carpets
etc) and provide zero export tax or even subsidise them for export from India.
Hurt Pakistan on the export front.
>
>
> Identify the major countries providing arms to Pakistan and arm twist
them. Tell Brazil and Germany (currently planning to supply massive defense
items to Pakistan) that it will impact their ability to invest in India. Tell
Germany that retail license to Metro will be off and other existing projects
will be in jeopardy.
>
>
> Incidentally, after the arrival of Coke and Pepsi in China, the human
rights violations of China are not talked about much by US government organs.
Think it is a coincidence? Unless we use our markets to arm-twist arms exporters
to Pakistan, we will not achieve our objectives.
>
>
> Tell American companies that for every 5% increase in FDI limit for them,
their government needs to reduce equipping Pakistan by $5 billion. That is real
politics, not whining. Let us remember that funds are in desperate search of
emerging markets and not the other way about. Let us also remember that
international economics is politics by another name.
>
>
> Create assets to print/distribute their currency widely inside their
country. To some extent, Telgi types can be used to outsource this activity. Or
just drop their notes in remote areas.
>
>
> Pressurise IMF to add additional conditionality to the loans given to them
or at least do not vote for their loans.
>
>
> Create assets within Pakistan to destabilise Karachi Stock market - it is
already in shambles.
>
>
> Cricket and Bollywood are the opium of the Indian middle classes. Both
have been adequately manipulated/ controlled by the D-company since the
eighties. Chase the D-company money in cricket/ Bollywood and punish by burning
D-assets in India instead of trying to have them auctioned by the IT department
when nobody comes to bid for it.
> n Provide for capital punishment to those who fund terror and help in
that. We have the division in the finance ministry to monitor money laundering,
etc. It is important that terror financing is taken seriously and fully
integrated into money laundering monitoring systems and this division is
provided with much larger budget and human resources. And it should coordinate
with RAW.
>
>
> Encourage and allow scientists/ academicians/ elites of Pakistan to opt
for Indian passport and widely publicise that fact since it will hurt their
self-respect and dignity. There will be a long queue to get Indian passports —
many will jump to get our passport — since they will not be stopped at
international airports. It is rumoured that Adnan Sami wants one. Do not give
passports to all — make it a prized possession. Let it hurt the army and ISI
controlled country. This one step will destroy their identity and
self-confidence.
>
>
> Discourage companies from India from investing in Pakistan, particularly
IT companies, till Pakistan stops exporting its own IT (international
terrorism).
>
>
> In all these, it is important that we do not bring in the domestic
religious issues. The target is the terror central, namely Pakistan, and if
there are elements helping them here then they also should be
punished-irrespective of religious labels. If Pakistan is dismantled and the
idea of Pakistan is gone, many of our domestic issues will also be sorted out.
>
>
> Will the Indian elite go for the jugular or just light more candles and
scream at the formless/ nameless political class before TV cameras? It is going
to be a long haul and may be in a decade or so, we can find a solution to our
existential crisis of being attacked by barbarians from the West. We need to
combine strategy and patience and completely throw to the dustbin the
'Gujral Doctrine' by that mumbling Prime Minister about treating younger
brothers with equanimity.
>
>
> The doctrine essentially suggests that if we are slapped on both the
cheeks we should feel bad that we do not have a third cheek to show. He,
according to security experts, seems to have dismantled our human intelligent
assets inside Pakistan, which has resulted in the gory death of thousands of
Indian citizens in the last few years. Such is our strategic thinking in this
complex world since our political class is not adequately briefed and the elite
don't think through issues. Better to be simple in our talks and vicious in
our actions rather than the other way.
>
>
> Hopefully, this November attack will create a new vibrant India capable of
taking care of its own interests.
>
>
> The writer is professor of finance and control, Indian Institute of
Management - Bangalore, and can be reached at vaidya at iimb.ernet.in. Views are
personal.
>
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