A Hindu Nationalist Perspective
The centre is not holding
By Anees Jillani
New Indian Express, 17 Apr 2009
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/print.aspx?artid=TQ9B3ITeJYQ=
The son of an elderly man was killed recently. The father, while accepting condolences, loudly thanked God. When people enquired at the reason for his gratitude, he remarked that God had been kind as at least the eyes of his son were not hurt during the brutal killing. Our reaction in Pakistan is fast approaching this state of affairs: the writ of the government is eroding, and almost everybody perhaps for the first time is seriously worried about the survival of the state. The worst may happen but the consolation all will have is that at least we had a democratically elected people’s government at the helm of affairs at the time.
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Date:16/04/2009 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/04/16/stories/2009041650170800.htm
Pakistan slides further into chaos
G. PARTHASARATHY
The Pakistani military establishment has no intention of giving up either its quest for "strategic depth" in Afghanistan by backing the Taliban, or its determination to continue to "bleed India," by backing jihadi groups. Given this scenario, New Delhi will have to devise more effective strategies to guarantee national security, says G. PARTHASARATHY.
American Special Representative for "Af-pak" (an acronym for Afghanistan and Pakistan), Richard Holbrooke, while expressing appreciation for India's "full support" for the reconstruction of Afghanistan, noted in Delhi on April 8: "For the first time since the Partition, India, Pakistan and the US face a common threat" and "we must work together and at the centre of the problem, which is Pakistan".
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