If we're to start out, then doing away with our obsession with India, Israel & US would be a good way to go at it.
Looking inside is what we need at the moment. The Pakistani leadership has failed on many levels for the past many decades. The terrorism that we face today was created by us, as a strategic decision. We have now got so entangled in the net that we ourselves wove that it is getting tougher & tougher to get out.
I also find this excitement about creating muslim unity & universal brotherhood quite naive. I must spell out one very important fact to you - nobody gives a damn about Pakistan. Not Saudi Arabia, not Iran, not UAE and certainly not the US. In the end, every nation has to fend for itself. They are all happy with their successes & occupied with their problems, they don't give two hoots to brotherhood & unity. I learnt this the hard way by my experiences in the middle east & the power lobbies in the US.
Economic & social development is the only way out. Military power (which is an oxymoron in our case, if you think about it) will not improve our standing in the world, nor would it safeguard the borders of the nation unless you back that with a solid economy & robust society. Unfortunately, we lack both.
To romp up our education system, we need money, money that we don't have & whatver we get from the loans go off to our military to buy some new toys to play with. We need to make a trade off. A squadron or two of F-16s will not bother the Indian military even a tiny little bit, but an economically strong, industrialized & prosperous Pakistan will command respect from even the most hardcore Indian nationalist.
Question is, how many of our people will agree to this trade off?
Looking inside is what we need at the moment. The Pakistani leadership has failed on many levels for the past many decades. The terrorism that we face today was created by us, as a strategic decision. We have now got so entangled in the net that we ourselves wove that it is getting tougher & tougher to get out.
I also find this excitement about creating muslim unity & universal brotherhood quite naive. I must spell out one very important fact to you - nobody gives a damn about Pakistan. Not Saudi Arabia, not Iran, not UAE and certainly not the US. In the end, every nation has to fend for itself. They are all happy with their successes & occupied with their problems, they don't give two hoots to brotherhood & unity. I learnt this the hard way by my experiences in the middle east & the power lobbies in the US.
Economic & social development is the only way out. Military power (which is an oxymoron in our case, if you think about it) will not improve our standing in the world, nor would it safeguard the borders of the nation unless you back that with a solid economy & robust society. Unfortunately, we lack both.
To romp up our education system, we need money, money that we don't have & whatver we get from the loans go off to our military to buy some new toys to play with. We need to make a trade off. A squadron or two of F-16s will not bother the Indian military even a tiny little bit, but an economically strong, industrialized & prosperous Pakistan will command respect from even the most hardcore Indian nationalist.
Question is, how many of our people will agree to this trade off?