[Reader-list] "The demise of Pakistan is inevitable"

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Rakesh
 
You wrote : "I don't feel that the Pakistani common people have any interest in training people to conduct terror blasts in India, but many sections of the Pakistani elite and the Pakistani army are involved in this, and we need to seriously look into this."
 
I would suggest that you are not fully aware of the dynamics in Pakistan. Many "common people" in Pakistan fund, support and participate in the hate-agendas against India of which "terror blasts in India" is one outcome.
 
Kshmendra
 
--- On Tue, 6/16/09, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] "The demise of Pakistan is inevitable"
To: "Kshmendra Kaul" <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 3:12 PM


Dear Kshamendra

Pakistan, in a sense is already fractured. We are in a situation now, where there is no idea about whom India can talk to and trust, and who it can't. We have Zardari, Gilani and Kayani, the state actors (or those who are acting, as done in films, for the Pakistani state on the world stage) who always want to get more funds to actually buy weapon systems against Pakistan, in the name of fighting terrorism on their western border and blackmail other nations that their nation won't survive. 

At the same time, we have non-state actors, who are directly or indirectly supported by the state actors, who create problems of different kind and blasts like Mumbai 26/11 or others. And these non-state actors create problems for their own people too sometimes, like Peshawar blasts and Lal Masjid incident. 

The triple conundrum of terrorism in India, which we in India have been suffering from, has one of the problems as the Pakistani state. I don't feel that the Pakistani common people have any interest in training people to conduct terror blasts in India, but many sections of the Pakistani elite and the Pakistani army are involved in this, and we need to seriously look into this. Through diplomatic pressure or other means, it's time for not only India, but the entire world to look into this. This world, as it is, is already suffering from so many problems. We should concentrate on such problems rather than fighting another problem by creating it.

Hence, the Pakistani state should be told in stricter terms that no financial aid would be provided to them, and only help through the Red Cross or the UNICEF or other humanitarian aid would be provided. Equally, it's the responsibility of all, including the USA, to stop giving such military equipment, which only fuels further anger against the US in the minds of the common people and encourages them to join the Taliban. Instead, we should go for a different strategy and start talking with those who actually don't want violence. Most of those who are joining Taliban, I don't feel, are interested in making Islam the supreme religion. Their concern is simply that innocents are getting killed in such wars, and therefore we need to separate such people from the hoodlums and the elite among the Taliban who set useless agendas. 

Even if my suggestion is too much, at least the current stream of US action is not going to help, and it is imperative that we change the course. Otherwise, Obama would have still gone the same course as Bush did, and 4 years from now, people would realize that Obama never brought the change he was supposed to.

And if Pakistan actually states that the Taliban will win, then somebody has to take the courage to call Pakistan's bluff. Because as I see it, the Taliban and the Pakistani state will continue to co-exist, irrespective of whatever others want to say about it. The elites in both have set the agendas, and they won't move away from each other. 

Regards

Rakesh