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History and hysteria behind India-Pak deadly relationship
By siliconindia
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Friday, 05 August 2011, 02:02 IST |
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Till the 1990's Pakistan never felt that it had made a mistake by opting for the partition, as in the 1980's India was going through an economic disaster and at that time Pakistan was enjoying the foreign currencies. But in the early 1990s, a reversal began to occur in the fortunes of the two countries. By the 1990s Pakistan had given rise to new and dangerous brand of Islam.
India rose through economic liberalization, whereas Pakistan withered under military rule in its country which was the primary agent for its decline. The vast amount of aid which it received from its ally U.S. was used to arm itself against India. And to this day, Pakistan still uses the fund to arm against India whereas it could have been used for something more constructive. By this way has neither found security nor stability.
Aatish Taseer goes on to say that the Pakistani army has led the U.S. in a dance, in which it had to be seen to be fighting the war on terror, but never so much as to actually win it, for its extension meant the continuing flow of American money.
This army, whose might has always been justified by the imaginary threat from India, has been more harmful to Pakistan than to anybody else. It has consumed annually a quarter of the country's wealth, undermined one civilian government after another and enriched itself through a range of economic interests.
This rage is what makes it impossible to reduce Pakistan's obsession with India to matters of security or a land dispute in Kashmir. It can heal only when the wounds of 1947 are healed.
Aatish Taseer is the son of Salman Taseer,who was the governor of the province of Punjab from 2008 until his assassination in early 2011.On January 4, 2011, one of Taseer's bodyguards, Malik Mumtaz Qadri, shot him 26 times with a submachine gun at Islamabad.
