History of Indian prophecies of doom for Pakistan

Posted on 14 October 2008. Tags: History of Indian prophecies of doom for Pakistan

THIS TOO SHALL PASS! WE SHALL OVERCOME!

Pakistan Zindabad!

THE PAKISTANI RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF THREATS: Mountbatten, Nehru, Indira, Kruschev, Johnson, Carter, Kissinger (Nixon), Gobachov, Clinton, Armitage (Bush), Karzia (Bush and Vajpayee/Sing) have all threatened Pakistan: The Pakistanis are used to it…so what else is new?!! Pakistan’s Nuclear Program should be seen in the backdrop of these threats.The capacity of Pakistan to sustain some fifteen major disarticulations in polity, power, and structure and still preserve a national identity is a phenomenon one is tempted to explain by recourse to the supernatural. Pakistan which has been pummelled by external events (three wars with India, secession of Bangladesh, 3.5 million Afghan refugees) and disrupted by internal fissures (4 periods of martial law totalling 27 years and ethnic violence in Sindh) to a degree which no other state established since 1945 has suffered. In this respect it stands as an exemplar of a nation whose adversities “common sense” might suggest make its viability impossible. Yet its continued existence defies the reality induced by such speculation. The enormity and persistence of these difficulties and the resilience of the nation in absorbing and somehow surviving them must be regarded with awe if not admiration.” RALPH BRAIBANTI

Pakistan has now become immune to “prophecies of doom”. Pakistanis are sick of “do more” lectures from a 3^rd rate country that piggy-backs on superpowers to get a kick out of beating up vulnerable populations. 2 million Muslim kids died destroying the USSR. Today, Pakistan is suffering because of the failed policies of Britain and the USA. The blowback faced by many is because of the short sighted policies of London and Washington.The selective amnesia is amazing. Pakistan was used by the USA in the First Afghan War against the USSR. India at the time was on the losing side of the battle and the USSR was not only defeated, it imploded.Analysts see major cavities. Today there is an overwhelming body of evidence that a similar fate faces “India.”

India’s major problem is not a nuclear armed Pakistan, or 160 million belligerent Pakistanis or even 160 million Bangledeshis or the 160 million Indian Muslims. India’s problem is the 40 million Hindu White widows, and the Dalits and Naxalite insurrection that threatens to destroy the heart of midland. While the urban penury competes with rural poverty the plutocratic, dynastic democrats, the extremist rightists, and the megalomaniacs (Nero’s) dream of a global power, the heart of India is in pain and destitution.

THEN: Hindu leaders agreed on partition of the subcontinent, as they thought and hoped that the dismemberment of India would be a temporary arrangement and reunification of India was a matter of time. History says that the riot of 1947 was masterminded to divide Bengal and Punjab, which were Muslim majority provinces at that time. Riots would not have occurred if they were not politically motivated. Neither innocent people would have been displaced or massacred; if Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister and his preceptor Gandhi would not had set a pre-condition that division of India “must mean a division also of Bengal and Punjab.” (See Nehru’s letter written on May 23, 1947, to Ashraffuddin Ahmad Chowdhury, the Congress President of Tripura, now Comilla, and district.) Nehru also did not keep secret the goal of his demand.

He in the same letter informed Ashraffuddin,

“That is the only way to have a United India soon after. If we have a United India straightway, without such division that will, of course be very welcome.”

Pakistan Day Celebrations are unparalled anywhere in the world

NOW: Here we go again. Another Indian prophecy of doom. The first one came in 1947. Today Pakistan is a nuclear state growing robustly with 7% growth rate and foreign investment coming in which India could only envy.

They had thought that 2007 would be a bad year. 2007 was one of the best years for the Pakistani economy. It takes more than a few mercenaries traind by RAW and KHAD to derail the “Mian bhais” of Pakistan. Alama Iqbal said it best “Qari nazar aat a hakeekat main hai Quran”.

The resilience of the Pakistani economy is akin to that of Israel and India. The Israeli economy is immune to political shocks. Similarly India has more than 89 active insurgencies. However both economies are growing. Similarly Thaliand despite a coup and active insurgencies continues to growl as an Asia Tiger.

Pakistan’s political unrest may delay, but not deter Canada’s rapidly expanding trade with the South Asian nation, Canadian business leaders say.

Yet Pakistani-Canadians with ties to their homeland continue to open doors for Canadian companies across the Pacific and, at the same time, create more demand here for products and services from Pakistan.

Questions also remain about his handling of the Bhutto assassination and whether or not his agents were perhaps even behind her death, charges that his government has rejected.

But Merchant, who emigrated to Canada in 1959, believes commerce will continue to thrive in Pakistan. He points to rapid increases in cellphone purchases, automobile manufacturing and foreign-currency reserves as signs that Pakistan’s middle class is becoming more affluent and able to afford higher-priced items.

Canadian companies have an important role to play as Pakistan tries to meet rising demand for information technology, oil and gas, hydroelectric power, new homes and other products and services, he adds.

SNC-Lavalin, Bombardier, Borealis Infrastructure and CAE are among major companies that have set up shop in Pakistan or gone on federal trade missions there.

Jean-Michel Laurin, vice-president of global business policy for the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Association (CME), says small to medium-sized companies have fuelled most of the rapid trade growth in Pakistan.

…large firms such as Bombardier and CAE, which can benefit from large military contracts, have no concerns because they operate globally and are willing to go anywhere.

Citing Statistics Canada figures, Laurin says Canadian exports to Pakistan have increased almost fourfold since 2001. Last year, Canadian firms shipped $397 million worth of goods, compared to a modest $73 million in 2001.

Between 2002-03, Canadian exports to Pakistan more than tripled from $85 million to $302 million.

“Our exports have increased quite dramatically – I’ve never seen something like that,” says Laurin.

Carey Healey, president and CEO of Coquitlam, B.C.-based Infosat Communications Inc., predicts Canadian companies doing business in Pakistan are unlikely to increase their investments there until the turmoil subsides. But Healey has no qualms about continuing Infosat’s relationship with its Pakistani partner, Comstar.ISA Ltd.

Infosat supplied a satellite hub and engineering services as part of the contract that will see Comstar provide network links and closed-circuit TV services for Pakistani police stations and other organizations in remote locations. The two companies aim to provide satellite and network services to Pakistani banks as they install more automated-teller machines around the country.

Doing business in Pakistan appealed to Infosat, because many executives in that country have trained in Canada or the U.S. and English is widely spoken.

“… “In India, it’s very competitive. There are tons of companies doing this. If you go over to Pakistan, people are falling all over themselves to be your partner. It’s because they’re just craving the ability to take on some of this new technology and new products.”

Comstar president Sami Bajwa is a McGill University MBA graduate who lived in Canada for two decades.

Healey says he felt little fear for his safety while travelling to Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore in 2006. Monte Stewart of Business Edge of Canada

Congress has taken notice, and last month passed a resolution calling for the United States to work with India to address the problem of untouchability by “encouraging US businesses and other US organisations working in India to take every possible measure to ensure Dalits are included and are not discriminated against in their programming”.

“It is now time for this Congress to speak out about this ancient and particularly abhorrent form of persecution and segregation – even if it is occurring in a country considered to be one of America’s closest allies,” Rep Trent Franks, R-Ariz., said during a speech last spring on the House floor. Franks went on to call Dalits “one of the most oppressed peoples on Earth.”

The 2006 study found that public health workers refuse to visit 33 per cent of Dalit villages, while mail is not delivered to the homes of 24 per cent of Dalits. The reason for the neglect, the study said, is that some in the upper castes believe lower-caste people are dirty and lack dignity in their labor as latrine cleaners, rickshaw drivers, butchers, herders and barbers.

The debate on affirmative action in India is similar to the one in the United States in terms of discrimination and ways to end it. But in India, those who experience discrimination, especially in rural areas, are the majority and are ruled by an elite. The issue here is complicated by India’s turbulent history of race, class and caste. Centuries-old customs of arranged marriages and inherited professions perpetuate caste divisions, which are further reinforced by some interpretations of Hinduism, India’s dominant religion, which sanctions the caste system.

The country’s education system also hardens caste. Lower castes largely attend public schools, which teach local languages, while private schools attended by upper castes teach English – the most important criterion to be hired at a call center, where young employees spend their nights helping customers phoning from the United States.

Sitting in a circle as they waited to hear whether they would get jobs, Kamble and the other students talked about the often harrowing discrimination they faced. “I knew there was hatred in the world and in India, when as a child I watched some upper castes refuse to sell my mother lentils and rice in the nicer part of the market because we were `dirty,’ and from a backward caste,” said Vivek Kumar Katara, 22, who has a master’s degree in social work focusing on helping the mentally ill. Without quotas, Katara said, “I honestly don’t know if professors would have even let me sit in the same class as upper castes”. http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/features/featuredetail.asp?file=augustfeatures302007.xml

The world is sick of Indian prophecies of doom for all states surrounding Bharat. By triggering unrest in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sikkiim, Bhutan and Bangladesh and by labeling them as “failed states” India wants to legitimize its own existence.

With 50 million White widows, Dalits in anger, 150 million Muslims in servitude, Naxilte insurrection, Mizuram and Tamil secession and Kashmiri rebellion, isn’t India a failed sate? Yes it is. And it has kept South Asia in penury because of its bad policies and tactics. Forget about Lal Masjid, the Crescent and Star will by flying atop Lal Qila AGAIN!