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‘Pakistan could become a failed state with nukes’
munaeem | 27 February, 2007 03:59
Via The Daily Times, Pakistan : ‘Pakistan could become a failed state with nukes’
Normalisation of relations between India and Pakistan and Pakistan’s return to democracy is most likely the key to the withdrawal of the military from the political arena as well as to Pakistan’s long term stability, but if Pakistan does not transcend the dynamic created by an ideology defined by the mosque and an overly dominant military, it runs the risk of becoming a failed state with nuclear weapons, according to Pakistani academic and journalist Husain Haqqani.
People like Haqqani has been predicting that Pakistan will become a failed state. But Pakistan is progressing despite their predictions.
There is not doubt Pakistan is passing through a difficult times. But it does not mean that it will become failed state like Somalia.
Mr. Haqqi , Failed state is a controversial term intended to mean a weak state in which the central government has little practical control over much of its territory.
Any fool can see that Pakistan does not fit in this category , it has has full control over its territories. Those who try to destabilize are eliminated with force.
I know that the US think-tank, The Fund for Peace, publishes an annual index called the 'Failed States Index' . They include Pakistan's name in the list of failed states. But their action is politically motivated.
Failed Stated 2006:
- Sudan
- Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Iraq
- Zimbabwe
- Chad
- Somalia
- Haiti
- Pakistan
- Afghanistan
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