Swapan Dasgupta in The Telegraph:
“Unlike its larger eastern neighbour, which cast a spell on outsiders, first as a spiritual haven and subsequently as a breeding ground for clever nerds, Pakistan has spent the major part of its 60-year existence as an afterthought. It lacked the civilizational draw of India and never quite captured the rugged romance of Afghanistan. It existed as an appendage to both the Moghul inheritance and the noble savagery that defined life along the Khyber Pass. Pakistan was perched somewhere in between. It was neither modernist and secular like Turkey, nor was it defined by medievalism like Saudi Arabia.”
Read the full column: The art of deception
Also read: Is Pakistan a failed State?
Pakistan will be doomed in the near future. What else can happen to a country built on hate, violence and bloodshed.
Super column by Swapan Dasgupta! Our own Dirty Devegowda is a PhD. in Al Takiya techniques..
Swapan dasgupta cannot call a spade a spade like the ruling classes of India.Pakistan was created by British to serve its imperial purpose after they depart. It played its part by joining SEATO/CENTO etc so that INSECURITY IS created in the Indian ruling class. a sort of Egypt/Isreal syndrome wherin americans and UK/EU will be the principal arms suppliers to both the contenders. Sabres and F16,F104 star fighters and they supplied the Gnats,Hunters,mirages to India. But menon broke the nexus by buying russian MIGs.
Now also the nukes of pakistan is made use of by the same lobby sothat Indias indpendent Nuke detterent can be capped AND ROLLED BACK.
Why Musharaff is ready for Scotland yard investigation in Benazir assasiantaion? He doesnot want UN investigation why? Becuase he is not afraid of UK and George Browns letter after the assasination blaming terrorists( without any probe) is a pointer. Even if unconfrotllbale facts come out; Zardari and bilawal can be controlled through the surrey home and bilawal studies.
Indian ruling elites must not crow about the disintegration of pakistan. they are part of BHARATH VARSH. Our civilisational roots like mohenjadoro,Taxila lie there as also Ghandhara arts. It is the NON CHALANCE OF TALIBAN when they bombed the bamiyan Budhdhas which should be our concern. Now a clever game is being played by the same lackeys of westen powers in kashmir in the guise of INDEPENDENCE OF KASHMIR and seperate currency etc. Indian fools are happy to have indpendent kashmir than the part going to pakistan.
They cannot think beyond their NOSE.
oh wow! churumuri we crossed borders here …
i for one am grateful for pakistan, long live pakistan.
eegiro sahabuddin, owaisi and assorted woozies only we cant deal with, imagine having to deal with all those woozies in pure-land and bangla-country in ‘bharat-varsh’.
imagine having to actually man the borders at khyber pass.
imagine having to man hindu-kush.
As tarlesubba rightly said it is a good riddance. If were in the akhand bharath, who knows, we might be under shariat law by now and our male children in madrasas and female children becoming duktharanis in burqahs. Forget about IT & BT we would have been declared a rouge nation by now.
We should thank, God, Jinnah, GB and Gandhi in that order for the partition.
As tarlesubba rightly said it is a good riddance.
Supposing, we were all together in Akhand Bharath, by now we would have been under shariat, our sons in Madrasas and our daughters in burqas. Forget about IT & BT, we would have been declared a rogue nation by now and Bush would have been bombing us merrily.
Thank God, Jinnah, Great Britain and Gandhi in that order for saving us from such a nightmare.