Who is Pakistan’s enemy?

[ajtr]

Who is Pakistan’s enemy?

It is indeed certain that non-state actors serve as the basic ingredient of Pakistan’s discord, particularly with the United States, India and Afghanistan. Such groups have been operating, at times unhindered within Pakistan, including the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) alias Jamaatud Dawa and the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM). The Afghan and Pakistani Taliban i.e., the so-called Quetta Shura and the Haqqani network are also striving to end the ‘foreign occupation’ of Afghanistan. Pakistan, or parts of its establishment, believes that front-runners like the LeT and the JeM can keep pricking the Indian security apparatus and keep it at bay as well as bogged down. The same forces also believe that an alliance with, or tolerance, of all those wedded to the ‘liberation of Afghanistan’ serves the country’s long-term strategic interests.
Is Pakistan at fault, or are all the countries wrong in being averse to its policies? Will Pakistan change or will it enforce a change in how others view it? Will Pakistan’s ‘victimhood at the hands of terrorist forces’ make up for the consternation its ‘duplicity’ is causing across the globe. Will the tolerance and appeasement of these forces continue, which on the surface are perceived as strategic assets, but are actually agents of medieval obscurantism? Will these forces remain partners in the security business while they abhor and reject music and films as un-Islamic i.e., essentially despise and viciously propagate against a normal way of life? Can they really be partners, when apparently they can provide the first line of defence but in reality are proliferating the society with an extremely conservative narrative on life? Aren’t the beasts biting the hands that were feeding them?
These are some of the questions that require scrutiny at home. Given Pakistan’s current beleaguered circumstances, one wonders whether those who matter within the power corridors have ever thought out possible answers to these questions.
Christine Fair, an American academic and journalist, recently wrote in Foreign Policy (June 21) that “….for once there’s consensus in Washington…. oth houses of the Congress and the White House have all joined in chorus to decry Pakistan’s duplicity”. At the same time, she said that the US needs to resist the urge to “cut-off Pakistan” since such a move would “ultimately be counterproductive”.
While such cautionary advice by some American writers may come across as a big consolation, time for Pakistani brinkmanship — embedded in the Cold War era mindset — is fast coming to a close. Islamabad needs to take hard decisions. They may entail temporary violence and bloodshed but may mean international respect and inclusion as well as medium to long-term socio-economic dividends.

 

[The SC]

Duplicity is a too big a word to use, instead they could have used " political manoeuvring and adjustment" on the part of Pakistan.
Who are the US or any other country in the world to criticise another country while they know the limits of choices and the political and social environments the country strives in. That is called duplicity on the part of the US, trying to push Pakistan to civil war and disintegration or self destruction. This only shows how the US uses malice in its politics, and to hide the fact it projects exactly what it thinks and does on others. In other words it uses Machiavelli politics suited to the interests of its masters dictators the Zionists.

 

[KRAIT]

Pakistan's foreign policy makers, shortsightedness of leaders and people like Zaid Hamid corrupting minds of Pakistani youth.

 

[Executioner]

Re-correct the tile "Who is Pakistan Number One Enemy" and answer is India.

 

[tarrar]

Re-correct the tile "Who is Pakistan Number One Enemy" and answer is India.

You got that RIGHT. Nice to see you have admitted it.

 

[Cherokee]

India is Pakistan's Biggest enemy but Dayum Now Yankees and Talibs are Steadily closing The gap . Hope Peace and Development return to Pakistan so That we can be on Number One spot again .

 

[mautkimaut]

Illiterate, rabid Pakistanis are the biggest enemy of Pakistan.

 

[seekers]

Pakistan own people are worst enemy of Pakistan.
people who was against Pakistan at time of independence and declaring Quaid e Azam as kafir e azam(nauzobilah) are getting in power by external forces.They have aim to implement their own sharia rule over country like taliban and forcefully revert the people in their own sharia or killed them.
Certainly this is horrible picture but one can check their agenda through their media and print network " hisaab' (may be).
i have got once this printed material during Books exhibition at University of Punjab,Lahore.
These are Munafqeen of Islam which always defame the Peaceful religion in the global world for last 1400 years. In Qurran Allah has very clearly give their identification in first chapter.
one of them is that they spread their evil in the name of showing right path

 

[zip]

Would have been none if they killed osama and those 5000 of his rotten apples who were from different countries @ start of this war ..
Unfortunately now apart from few countries everyone thinks negatively about their role and enemy list is growing day by day

 

[angeldust]

Intolerance and fundamentalism.

 

[killerx]

AMERICAN AND NATO BRAIN LESS TAX PAYERS

 

[Paan Singh]

i think india is the real enemy
see,this philosphy have backfired for pakistan.Pakistanis are brainwashed still n think that india is top enemy.I am referring the recent poll in which they stated india as top enemy.

and this is failed now...enemy is sitting inside not outside

 

[The SC]

Anyone with the slightest signs of success has inevitably some "enemies", this animosity stems from a cocktail of jealousy, self threat perceptions and false competitiveness, So they are the Enemy's psychological problems and he is the one to deal with them!
Pakistan enemies are mainly the enemies of Islam, since Pakistani people are pious religious people, they seem as a threat to the so called "Secularists" (mainly atheists, anti religious and Fraudulent people) mostly from outside the country.
Cashmere is the main issue with India and nothing else.
While the lack of sound and effective management, mainly in the energy sectors (If the stated natural resources are easily exploitable) are a major hindrance to The Pakistani advancements in more Education and R&D.
If one sees the lists of pros and cons of Pakistan, he can only see that the Pros are more dominant as stated in an article I have posted before called: Why Pakistan won't fail
And here it is again:

PAKISTAN, October 18, 2011 - Although international observers worry Pakistan could fail, which would destabilize the region, possibly providing radical Islamists both a base of operations and access to nuclear weapons, they underestimate the strength of democracy and democratic institutions in the country.

The primary concern of Westerners is that with a strong Taliban presence in Pakistan, the Taliban and other radical Islamic groups could take over the government expanding extremist influence in Pakistan, allowing terrorists to access nuclear weapons. Theoretically this would allow terrorists to travel around the world carrying nuclear weapons in their backpacks.

Fears may not be ungrounded:

In June, the Pakistani military announced that, a few days following the US operation to kill Osama Bin Laden, it had detained Brigadier General Ali Khan for alleged ties to Hizbul Tehrir (HuT), an Islamic militant group. Khan has spent 25 years in the military, serving with UN peace keepers in Bosnia.

Various media outlets report that Pakistan officials frequently warn militants in tribal areas of imminent attacks, giving the terror suspects time to flee.
In May, Pakistani Taliban insurgents stormed the Naval Air Station in Karachi and destroyed two surveillance aircraft supplied by the US. According to CNN and other sources, they acted with inside information on the layout and security of the station.
In 2008, there were reports that radicals in the Swat valley of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa (KPK) province forced residents to follow strict Islamic law. dictating the common people to observe the strict laws of Islam. There was also a report of an attack on the General Headquarters of the Army of Pakistan in Rawalpindi by militant Islamists. Some sources report that those incidents did not take place, however.

Despite the presence of the Taliban and radical Islamists in Pakistan, the country is stable and during the 64 years since independence, Pakistan has developed strong democratic institutions, civil society, and respect for human rights.

The Pakistani Constitution provides for democratic elections and a bi-cameral parliament with the lower house of Parliament being the National Assembly, and the upper house the Senate.

The Pakistani public elects the National Assembly through direct elections, and those representatives select the Prime Minister. The legislature is an independent organization that works to formulate new laws according to the needs of the people of Pakistan.

Pakistan holds free and fair democratic elections. The election commission has powers to independently conduct elections of national and provincial assemblies. Over hundred political parties are registered by the election commission of Pakistan.

The Pakistani military is ruled by a civilian authority. The Army is a professional organization, consisting of millions of regular and reserve troops. Noted for its professionalism and dedication to the civilian government and democracy, it is the best institution in Pakistan. Domestically, the army works to keep Pakistani citizens safe and to protect the rights of the public. Pakistan’s army has participated in numerous peace keeping operations as part of the United Nations forces.

Pakistan also has active local governments and a vibrant civil society, active in all departments of the country. Local governments run the departments through the Union Council and at the village level in Pakistan. Civil society, including numerous unions and other types of organizations, are extremely active – without government interference – in the country.

Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are also working in Pakistan and civil society is growing rapidly. Educational institutions provide world class education to its students in all the basic and applied subjects. For women, there are many universities that provide education to only women. Pakistan produces more than 10,000 medical doctors each year, and an even higher number of engineers

Print and electronic media in Pakistan are extremely active and are also free from government control. There are approximately one hundred television channels providing news and entertainment. There are also hundreds of newspapers.

Pakistan is a stable, free democracy and is not threatened by radical Islam or the Taliban as some may think. While those groups do exist in Pakistan today, Pakistan’s democratic institutions and civil society are not at risk of failing to those radicals. Moreover, Pakistan’s army is strong enough to safeguard its weapons, including nuclear, from theft by radicals.

In every sense, Pakistan is a country that is progressing in every field of life, and is not likely to collapse and threaten the stability of the region or the world.

Why Pakistan won't fail | Washington Times Communities

 

[Bobby]

You got that RIGHT. Nice to see you have admitted it.

Yes we know for Pakistan India is no. 1 enemy........but Pakistan is not India 's no.1 enemy......

India's No. 1 enemy is poverty and corruption...and we are fighting hard with them

 

[fullyfaltu]

I believe the Biggest enemy for Pakistan is the mindset of their people sitting on the high posts and the citizens of pakistan who're supporting them. A major reform in Pakistan is must and do that people should come out from their comfort zone and i.e Religious mindset [No Offense].

Also, IT and Manufacturing sector should come up...

In the long run, IMO, The biggest enemy for Pakistan is US and China. Believe me these people won't let you growing.