NEW DELHI: This is with reference to Shahpur Kabraji and Ali Ezzatyar’s article of October 14 titled “What America needs to do”.
Such bold articles can only be written by Pakistanis settled abroad. It is a clean straightforward article with a pointed emphasis on facts. However in the country facts count for nothing and perception is everything. Friends of Pakistan have been giving sound advice for decades but have found no takers anywhere in the Establishment. To expect the country to suddenly become wise and go for course correction voluntarily is fantasy.
The alliance between the military and mullah is so strong that every other section of civil society lives in constant fear of it. Through patronage or threats they have been able to coerce support for their ideological leanings and thus retained their firm footing on top of the country’s power structure. The clock is ticking — sooner or later a major terrorist attack sponsored by militant groups against Indian or western targets could happen. And if it does, the fallout from that on Pakistan may be too much to handle.
FK
Published in The Express Tribune, October 17th, 2011.
