T-Faz
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There is some truth to what T-Faz says. Look Pakistan calls one of its parliamentary houses as Senate and the American influence is palpable when their security forces and emergency personnel wear T-Shirts with their organization's name on them - a typical American influence. Pakistan also has a citizen database system and calls its central government the Federal Government and the internal investigation agency, the FIA. If you look at India, all these idiosyncracies are absent, because India's governance concepts were drawn from the UK and USSR, and India used the word Central a lot. It appears that Pakistan in its formative years actually wanted to model itself on American governance systems. This may have been because America may have had deep influence on its formative leaders, especially as a counter to India, which was thought of as having tilted over to the USSR side. But, somewhere the Saudi renegades and Zia stepped in, and swoosh, we have Afghan problems, Kashmir insurgency, extremist indoctrination, mushrooming of Madrassahs and Pakistan ends up losing its way.
Zia was the beginning of an unwanted change that has hurt Pakistan to a great extent. But you have to remember that the soviet invasion of Afghanistan had a big hand in all this too.
The soviet invasion resulted in mass immigration to Pakistan and the subsequent events where Pakistan spearheaded operation cyclone opened a vacuum of militants. These militants were not aggressively Islamic in nature but CIA brought in the Arabs who brainwashed one and all through their own funded madrases.
There was a big need after the soviet pullout to work on development and education but as US pulled out, the mess got worse and today everyone is suffering because of it.
I believe all this is reversible and hope to see the problem being solved eventually with the help of multiple parties.
If anyone jumps out early, this problem will only get worse. War is not the solution, dialogue is and development of the region whereby people are lifted out of poverty and do not fall into the extremist trap.