Why Pakistan is crucial to world stability

[Contrarian]

those talkinh about breaking Pakistan may have forgotten KHALISTAN. The destabilisation of a nuclear state will have far reaching effect on the neighbour.

Pakistan already has a negative effect in the region. More instability can be tackled, but atleast there wont be a solid entity promoting terrorism.

 

[Lilo]

Monday, March 19, 2007

Why Pakistan is crucial to world stability

Daily Times Monitor

LAHORE: India is rightly seen as a strategic partner for the West, especially the US, which is playing a balance-of-power game using India against China. But Pakistan, not India, is key to stability in the new world order, according to a report in The Observer.

Anyone who wants political power in Pakistan, so say the street pundits, must hold three aces – America, the army and Allah. As Pakistan plans its 60th birthday celebrations this year, it may hope for a future less in thrall to its military, to its mullahs and to Washington. President Pervez Musharraf, who took power in a bloody 1999 coup, is facing a crisis, said the report.

Far from being NATO’s calm eastern ally, a new front in the fight against terrorism, Islamabad’s streets feel shaky, divided and waiting for the worst. Pakistan is neither dictatorship nor democracy. Its newspapers are louder in criticism of their president than the anti-Blair or anti-Bush press in the West. Its intellectuals roam the world, trashing their country. Opposition politician, Cambridge-educated billionaire, Benazir Bhutto, is free to return home when she wants. But Gen Musharraf and his army are in charge. The house arrest of suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, after he refused Musharraf’s demand to resign, has caused outrage. In a nation that reveres high office, the manhandling of the judge shocked even the most cynical of Pakistani politicians.

Pakistan urgently needs a return to democratic civilian rule even if its elected leaders in the nineties became bywords for corruption, encouraging the Taliban and the madrassas, as well as the long-bearded, turban-wearing politicians who insist the law should be subordinate to theocracy. Democracy requires compromise between the military and the politicians. Instead there may be a slow drift towards increased authoritarianism under Musharraf, further alienating Pakistan.

In fact, the most poignant story in Pakistan last week was not about the chief justice but the stoning to death of a woman and two men accused of adultery. The rise of religious intolerance is now a political danger from the Christian West to the Muslim East. Yet it is all too easy to patronise Pakistan.

Britain is currently gushing over India with its clever graduates and Midas-touch businessmen. But India’s record on human rights and the illiteracy of half its population is little better than Pakistan’s.

The chain reaction that began when the West and Saudi Arabia called into being the jihadi movement to oust the Russians from Afghanistan is coming back to haunt Pakistan. In the eighties it allowed itself to be the base for military attacks on Russia, even as the USSR tottered on the edge of history’s dustbin. Now the jihadis are heading steadily eastwards as fanatical Islamism preaches hate and justifies suicide bombings. But Afghanistan could be saved if a political-economic-social campaign can gain ground from a purely military definition of the challenges.

The news is good in terms of schools, roads and hospitals built. Kabul looks richer than when it was a hippy-trail stopover three decades ago. But relentlessly the Taliban and the jihadis from among the three million Afghan refugees in Pakistan are back in business. Pakistan is endlessly reproached about not doing enough. It is told to close its frontier, as if the US can close the Mexican border or 30,000 British soldiers could seal the border across which IRA killers roamed. Pakistan is pressured to hunt Bin Laden, but NATO can’t find Radovan Karadzic or persuade the Serbian army to stop protecting Ratko Mladic.

The time is overdue to acknowledge the sacrifices Pakistan has made. It has 80,000 soldiers along the 2,300-km frontier with Afghanistan; 500 have been killed, far in excess of NATO casualties in Afghanistan or Britain’s in Iraq. India could join the war against terror by removing its 700,000 soldiers from Kashmir and opening the border. Musharraf has been braver than his predecessors in acknowledging that Indian-controlled Kashmir is not going to return to Pakistan.

If Pakistan felt its eastern flank was secure, it could transfer its military to the west – Afghanistan. Britain in recent years has given £1bn in aid to India, while India spends £200m on aid to Afghanistan. UK aid is, in effect, subsidising India’s efforts to pull Afghanistan into its orbit. India is opening consulates in parts of Afghanistan where no Indian has been seen in years. From Pakistan’s perspective, this looks like India seeking influence in order to keep up pressure on its old foe.

This summer heroin will be cheaper on the streets of Pakistan than sweets. India and China have a bigger drugs problem than the UK. Both countries should cut Islamabad some slack. If Afghanistan goes wrong, the next target for the ideologues who unleash suicide bombers will be Pakistan with its nuclear arsenal. Pakistan is the key to defeating the new threats to the world. Time and again, the West has turned its back on Pakistan. That mistake should not be made again. Britain, with its close links to Pakistan, its able, articulate Muslim MPs, and its duty to tell America to change tactics, should help before it is too late.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\03\19\story_19-3-2007_pg7_20

India is rightly seen as a strategic partner for the West, especially the US, which is playing a balance-of-power game using India against China. But Pakistan, not India, is key to stability in the new world order, according to a report in The Observer.

Britain is currently gushing over India with its clever graduates and Midas-touch businessmen. But India’s record on human rights and the illiteracy of half its population is little better than Pakistan’s.

I cant believe this..
If this stupid prick - Eric margolis wants to support pakistan ive got no beef with him ...but if he thinks that slandering India is equivalent to supporting Pakistan ..some one needs to shove those words right back into his fillthy mouth...He is no better than the rabidly India hating Pakistanis we see at places like PDF...

anyways what more can one expect from a slob whose mind is lost scrimmaging over the left over scraps of cold war and thinks that things work just as they used to work forty years ago

Here's a Neo -con article on him

Eric Margolis: Apologist for Terror
By Eugene Girin
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 12, 2005

Among the numerous anti-American and anti-Israel scribes polluting the Canadian media, few can match Eric Margolis–corresponding foreign editor for the Leftist tabloid the Toronto Sun–for vitriol, duplicity or twisting the facts.

Margolis’ most recent paean to Middle Eastern despots and Islamo-fascists appeared in the March 28 issue of Pat Buchanan’s paleoconservative magazine, The American Conservative. Margolis’ piece, titled “Syria in the Sights?” was notable for his trademark America and Israel-bashing rhetoric (which frequently echoes the “reporting” of Al-Jazeera) as well as for his shameless Syrian apologia. For instance, Margolis calls Lebanon a “creation of European colonialism” that was “detached” from “historic Syria” and credits Syria with bringing back order and stability to Lebanon. Given that Lebanon is currently locked in a struggle to free itself from years of Syrian occupation, Margolis’ justification of the Assad regime’s iron-fisted rule there is particularly repugnant.

But Margolis doesn’t stop there. In the same article, he characterizes Hamas and Islamic Jihad as “Palestinian resistance groups” whose sole objective is to resist Israeli occupation, not menace America. This despite the fact that Margolis is undoubtedly well aware that the stated goal of both Hamas and Islamic Jihad is the total destruction of Israel and its replacement with a radical Muslim theocracy. Under this genocidal scenario, Israeli Jews would be slaughtered and their survivors forced to live under the brutal rule of their new Islamist overlords.



Margolis’ claim that these two terrorist groups pose no threat to Americans is equally untenable. Terrorist attacks in Israel carried out by Hamas and Islamic Jihad have taken the lives of dozens of American citizens, both Jews and non-Jews. In addition, FBI agents have expressed concern that Hamas operatives in America currently have the capability to carry out terrorist attacks on American soil; in fact, an FBI affidavit filed last year warned that Al Qaeda has been enlisting Hamas members to conduct surveillance of American targets. Furthermore, Hamas and Islamic Jihad are thought to be behind the bombing of a U.S. diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip in October 2003 that murdered three American security guards.



Margolis’ whitewashing of Hamas and Islamic Jihad is par for the course. Consider the glowing tribute Margolis penned to arch-terrorist Yasir Arafat in the Toronto Sun after the dictator’s death. Sounding more like an Iranian government press release than a “respected” Western journalist, Margolis stated that Arafat “may have been murdered by an untraceable toxin brought to Israel from KGB’s Moscow labs.” In the same article, Margolis showered Arafat with hyperbolic praise, commending the arch-murderer for waging “a four-decade struggle to right the injustices his people have suffered.” According to Margolis, Yasser Arafat “met and overcame more daunting obstacles than any other modern leader.” Margolis wrote off the murderous terrorist attacks for which Arafat and his cronies were responsible as “the only way the weak can fight the strong” and once again accused Israel of “relentlessly oppress[ing]” the Palestinians. And in a stunning display of anti-Israel guile, Margolis even asserted that, “In spite of his tough talk, Arafat sought peace with Israel on numerous occasions.”



It’s common knowledge that had Israel really wanted to kill Arafat, it could have done so on numerous occasions. Moreover, it strains credibility that the Russian security establishment, a bastion of pro-Arab and anti-Western ideologues, would provide a toxin to Israel. Indeed, only an anti-Israel zealot like Eric Margolis could entertain the possibility that Russia’s security apparatus is made up of closet Zionists.



Margolis has also circulated rumors accusing Israel of manufacturing biological weapons that are specifically designed to attack the cells of victims with “distinctive Arab genes.” According to a November 1998 Margolis article, “Does Israel Have Smart Germs?” Israel was developing this hideous weapon in the Nes Ziona [sic] plant outside of Tel Aviv with the full compliance of “at least one of Israel’s world-renowned scientific Institutes.” Margolis reported that the “smart germs” were obtained by Israel from South Africa’s Afrikaner government, with additional biological warfare technology supplied by émigré Russian scientists. Margolis even called Israeli scientists “little Dr Mengeles.”



Another journalist would have been fired after publishing an article that even remotely resembled the abovementioned one. Margolis, on the other hand, was allowed to keep his lucrative editorial position while continuing to make other equally wild allegations.



For example, in a December 1998 column titled “Villains 1998,” he smeared former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “Class B Villain” and put him in the same category as Saddam Hussein and the oppressive Chinese communists. In the same column, Margolis accused Netanyahu of sabotaging the Middle East peace process and said that the “Israeli far right” was just as bad as the Hamas terrorists: “Israel’s far right is as much a threat as Hamas extremists and their human bombs.”



In the fall of 2000, at the outset of the Palestinian orgy of violence against Israel, Margolis characterized the fighting as “a giant prison riot by Palestinians” and claimed that a Palestinian boy and his father were “slowly” shot by Israeli soldiers. The boy (Mohammed Al-Durrah who was shot to death by Palestinian gunmen during a battle with Israeli soldiers) was then compared to a Jewish victim of the Holocaust. Margolis also berated the Israelis for not ceding Jerusalem–Israel’s rightful capital and Judaism’s spiritual center–to Arafat and his thugs and for not allowing the descendants of millions of Palestinian “refugees” (according to Margolis “1.1 million Palestinians were driven from their homes and land [by Israel]&#8221 to flood the Jewish state. Margolis thinks that this Israeli refusal to commit national suicide was the cause of the Second Intifada. He warns that “there will be no lasting regional peace until millions of Palestinian refugees are somehow made whole and convinced they have a future.” In other words, Margolis is saying that until Israel allows itself to be flooded with a huge amount of hostile foreigners, there is no chance for peace in the Middle East.



Margolis’ view of the current situation in the Middle East reflects his equally warped and biased view of the region’s history. He claimed in his May 22, 1999, column “Light at the End of the Middle East Tunnel?” that Arab countries invaded Israel in 1948 in response to “Israeli ethnic cleansing” and “a few, selective massacres” of the Palestinian Arabs. This is historical revisionism in its lowest and most disgusting form.



Margolis’ Islamist-coddling mindset is further evidenced in the choice of people he nominated as “the century’s greatest heroes” in a January 2, 2000, Toronto Sun column. Ayatollah Khomeini and Gamal Abdel Nasser—brutal dictators who were responsible for starting numerous wars, giving support and cover to dozens of terrorist groups and leaving thousands of corpses in their wake—were characterized as “heroes” by Margolis.

He wrote that Khomeini possessed “enormous moral stature” and praised the savage theocrat for inspiring “Islamic revolutionaries” and showing the world that “ideas and faith were more powerful than police states.” And according to Margolis, Gamal Abdel Nasser, a corrupt, aggressive, and wicked Nazi-sympathizer, was a “titan among Middle East leaders” who instilled a sense of “pride and manhood” in the Arabs.



Libyan tyrant Muammar Qaddafi has also been the object of Margolis’ empathy. In a 2001 column, Margolis bragged about visiting Qaddafi and having lunch with one of his chief henchmen, the terror master Abdullah Senoussi, who Margolis described as a “charming and intelligent man.” Margolis has claimed that Qaddafi was brought to power by the United States (“The Americans had elbowed out of oil-rich Libya in 1969 and put a Bedouin officer, Col. Qadafii [sic] in power.&#8221 and that Libyan terrorist attacks, like 1986 bombing of a Berlin discotheque, were in reality perpetrated by the Israelis in order to discredit Qaddafi (“...Israel decided to mount a false-flag operation to further discredit Libya and, provoke the U.S. to attack an Arab nation.&#8221



Margolis argues that Israeli agents have planted a transmitter with fake pre-recorded messages in Tripoli, Libya, that gave false information about “Libyan-authored bombings and planned attacks” to U.S. intelligence. According to Margolis, the hideous bombing of the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie in which almost two hundred people perished was either perpetrated by the Iranians (as was suggested by Margolis’ friend Senoussi, who said it was Iran’s “revenge for the downing of an Iranian civilian airliner by the U.S. cruiser ‘Vincennes’&#8221 or was righteous revenge for the “illegal” bombing of Libya by the United States in 1986. In Margolis’ eyes, Qaddafi and his regime are innocent victims of Israeli guile and American aggression and America has “lots of embarrassing skeletons in their Libyan closet they’d prefer to keep hidden.”



As any reading of his work makes clear, Margolis is willing to go to great lengths to issue apologies for Islamist terrorism. In late 1999, Margolis called on the West to join the cause of Chechen separatism and to demand that Russia “set free the peoples of the Caucasus.” One of his recent articles, titled “What about Freedom for Chechnya?” offered a strikingly sanitized account of the Russian-Chechen conflict. Margolis asserted that Russian military forces were perpetrating “some of the world’s vilest atrocities and violations of human rights” in Chechnya. He also claimed that “Russian forces have killed from 125,000 to 200,000 Chechen civilians and fighters, razed cities and villages, and committed wide-scale murder, rape, pillage, and hostage-taking.”



Margolis neglected to mention that while Russian forces in Chechnya are certainly responsible for brutalizing and killing Chechen civilians, Chechen terrorists are responsible for far bigger and bloodier acts of violence and terror, such as the takeover of Moscow’s Dubrovka theater and the horrific massacre at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia that shocked the world. This is not to mention the numerous Chechen-perpetrated subway, airplane, market, and apartment building bombings that left hundreds of dead and wounded.



But rather than condemn the Chechen terrorists who are responsible for some of the biggest atrocities of the 1990s, Margolis is one of their most vehement defenders, which is hardly surprising given his background. He is affiliated with the Institute for Regional Studies (Islamabad, Pakistan)–a barely existent “think tank” that is a front group for the Musharraf regime. Margolis also has considerable links to Afghani Islamists. Worse, Margolis has referred to the vehemently anti-American Afghani warlord, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar—an ally of both the Iranians and Al Qaeda—“my old acquaintance.” In fact, Margolis was so vehement in the defense of Hekmatyar that he even accused the Bush administration of behaving “like Murder Inc.” in Afghanistan in an article that was published on May 13, 2002.



When he isn’t whitewashing atrocities committed by terrorists, Margolis is attributing them to those he dislikes. His accounts of Serb “atrocities” are a case in point. In a January 1999 article, for instance, Margolis made the malicious claim that “to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Serb paramilitary police slaughtered 45 elderly Albanian Muslims [sic] villagers, in Kosovo, even taking the time to mutilate the bodies and gouge out eyes.” There’s one major problem with Margolis’ sensationalist account: no such “atrocity” took place, as evidenced by its conspicuous absence from official inquiries into the conflict in Kosovo.



Indeed, Margolis’ articles during the bombing of Yugoslavia were one long explosion of Serbophobic rage. He accused the Serbs of every imaginable atrocity and even called them “Europe’s New Nazis.” (the title of his March 28, 1999, article). He accused the Serbian Diaspora “from Macedonia to Toronto” of being puppets of the Milosevic regime and called for a Croatian attack on north Yugoslavia. Margolis also compared the Serbs to SS soldiers who were leading Jews from the “burning ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto” and accused Serbia of conducting “industrialized atrocities”–a clear and typically inappropriate reference to the Holocaust–and perpetrating a “second coming of Nazism.”



Predictably, given Margolis’ frequent verbal bouquets to Islamists, the Bush administration is another target of his vitriol. Margolis has praised Michael Moore for doing a “smashing job” of exposing the “fear-mongering of the Bush administration that terrorized unworldly Americans.” Margolis even concluded a July 2004 column by commending the America-hating filmmaker for bringing “bright light into the propaganda darkness.”



Margolis—writing from the cozy, socialist environs of the Great White North—has managed to become a darling of both the far Left and far Right by viciously attacking Israel and U.S. foreign policy and apologizing for Islamo-fascists. Yet, as the media watchdog group Honest Reporting Canada has stated, “Margolis stands out among his colleagues by presenting outlandish conspiracy theories that have no basis in reality.” At the very least, his troubling track record of sensationalism, factual inaccuracies and open support for our Islamist enemies should serve to place Margolis on the fringes of political discourse. Then again, since he’s primarily published in the Toronto Sun, one could say he’s already there.

 

[Lilo]

March 19, 2007
INDIA AND PAKISTAN HEAD IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS


NEW DELHI - This week, India’s feisty press was gleefully speculating that Pakistan’s embattled President Pervez Musharraf, better known here as `Mush,’ was about to be kicked out by his erstwhile patrons in Washington and replaced by another senior general deemed even more responsive to US policy.

There is indeed growing anger at Musharraf in Washington. The Bush Administration, stuck in an aimless war in Afghanistan, blames Musharraf for its problems and for not crushing Pashtun resistance in Pakistan’s tribal belt. But he has already pushed Pakistan close to civil war in an effort to answer US demands. It’s getting hard to tell who is angrier at the beleaguered general, his own people or Washington.

This week, in an amazingly obtuse move, Musharraf sacked his nation’s respected chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, for daring to inquire into the fate of political prisoners. This disgraceful act, and new press restrictions, ended any democratic pretenses by Musharraf’s regime and left Pakistan looking like a banana republic. It also stood in glaring contrast to India’s vibrant democracy, free press and independent judiciary.

High level sources here tell me Indian PM Manmohan Singh’s able government feels there’s little point conducting serious negotiations with Musharraf over divided Kashmir since he is on the defensive and in deep disfavor with the US. In any event, India has no intention whatsoever of acceding to Musharraf’s latest idea for some sort of autonomy in its portion of Kashmir.

India already has what it wants in Kashmir and sees no reason to negotiate it away. With Musharraf and Pakistan now in the US dog house, Delhi is even less inclined to offer meaningful concessions to Pakistan beyond more confidence building measures and making the Line of Control more porous to trade and travel.

Significantly, Delhi has also concluded that the US and NATO war to dominate Afghanistan has failed. The western powers will withdraw their troops, sooner, think Indian strategists, than later. ..and ive concluded that u r a patent idiot



India should know. It has hundreds of agents from its intelligence agency, RAW, inside Afghanistan and has spent nearly $1 billion there for `reconstruction,’ a euphemism for renting influence with anti-Pakistani Tajiks, Hazara, and Uzbeks.

Interestingly, in spite of thawing political relations between Delhi and Beijing, Indian military sources still harbor deep concerns over China’s steady expansion of military, economic and political influence into Pakistan, Burma, Central Asia, and the Indian Ocean. India’s military vividly recalls its sharp defeat by China in their 1962 mountain war.

By contrast to backsliding Pakistan, old rival India is full of pep and optimism. Its still-to-be confirmed strategic alliance with the US, and George Bush’s blessing of India’s hitherto `rogue’ nuclear arsenal, was greeted by Indians as their coming of age as a world power. China met the news with quiet anger and concern. The US has made plain that old ally Pakistan will not be accorded the same preferential treatment given to India.

Right on cue, the new Delhi-Washington alliance produced glowing stories about India in the US establishment media. India is the latest gold rush site for western businessmen and a must-go for trendy tourists.

But behind all the media hoopla over India, this vast continent remains two distinct nations. The smaller one is the vibrant, westernized urban India. The other is still a vast collection of disparate peoples, faiths and languages that remains mired in rural poverty. Nearly 400 million of India’s one billion people subsist on less than $1 daily, and another 200 million are only slightly better off. Health care and education are a shambles. India’s $728 per capita income ranks just above sub-Saharan Africa.

Bollywood, space programs and nuclear Viagra notwithstanding, India cannot advance as far and rapidly as it desires until it solves the awesome problems of rural poverty, dilapidated infrastructure, and the malign, ingrained caste system which relegates darker-skinned Indians to a life of serfdom, malnutrition, abuse, and widespread child labor.

China conquered its social ills by enforcing drastic reforms and is way ahead of India by most measures – except in democracy and personal freedoms. India’s democratic governments struggles to advance reforms through a morass of squabbling federal and state politicians and armies of nasty petty bureaucrats.

Fortunately, India’s recent governments, both Congress and BJP, finally ditched 1950’s British socialism and crippling regulations that hobbled this great nation for so long, releasing India’s latent economic power and productivity.
Small wonder Indians are feeling so confident these days while Pakistanis are down in the dumps.
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copyright Eric S. Margolis 2007

His latest article is a good example to see how much of an incompetent "foreign Expert" he really is...

whatever that is new was taken straight from rumour mills with little credibility

and the rest of the article is made up of platitudes and cliches he was reclycling through the years.

 

[HASEEB66]

Pakistan already has a negative effect in the region. More instability can be tackled, but atleast there wont be a solid entity promoting terrorism.

How does Pakistan have a negative effect? If your country is so effected and worried by these activities, your vulnerability shows your internal weekness because it may be neccesary to control the disease within than pointing fingers at my country.
If there will not be a solid entity promoting terrorism than you can rest assure there will not even be the other entity who thinks as such.

 

[HASEEB66]

His latest article is a good example to see how much of an incompetent "foreign Expert" he really is...

whatever that is new was taken straight from rumour mills with little credibility

and the rest of the article is made up of platitudes and cliches he was reclycling through the years.

Is this article written by some Indian writer who lives in India?Watch Indian channels and has never travelled abroad? And writes for a local newspaper?

 

[kidwaibhai]

Ok in the last part this expert wrote that pakistani are in the Dumps how the hell did this guy come up to this conclusion. pakistans GDP has doubled in the past 7 years and FDI this year will exceed 5bn

 

[Adux]

A military Dictator is giving you Economic Data. I would take it with a pinch of salt

 

[Lilo]

Ok in the last part this expert wrote that pakistani are in the Dumps how the hell did this guy come up to this conclusion. pakistans GDP has doubled in the past 7 years and FDI this year will exceed 5bn

sarc*on
Because this guy is Eric Margolis and he is a "renowned" "South Asia expert" ...
sarc*off

but seriously... even Pakistani journos write better reports on India compared to this guy

Is this article written by some Indian writer who lives in India?Watch Indian channels and has never travelled abroad? And writes for a local newspaper?

hey dont insult out reporters by comparing them with him...

 

[kidwaibhai]

A military Dictator is giving you Economic Data. I would take it with a pinch of salt

I dont think maryll lench, JP Morgan and Chace, Standard and Poor, the World bank and The asian Development bank are under the controll of this dictator or if they then musharaff is more powerfull than I think he is

 

[Contrarian]

They also say that Pakistani growth will slow to average, and there are many reports that the economic boom is not all it seems to be on face value. Debt is rising, etc, etc, Mushy is doing all he can to make people "feel good".
Im sure all Indians will realise the words in quote.

 

[PakSniper]

They also say that Pakistani growth will slow to average, and there are many reports that the economic boom is not all it seems to be on face value. Debt is rising, etc, etc, Mushy is doing all he can to make people "feel good".
Im sure all Indians will realise the words in quote.

Provide source to back up your claim. Cause as far as I know, Pakistan is getting alot of foreign investment, way more then we were getting without Mushy, he has changed Pakistan economy alot.

Asian Development Bank:

In 1998, total debt (both domestic and external) exceeded the GDP, total debt servicing accounted for 67 percent of all Government revenues, and external debt servicing accounted for 55 percent of export earnings, i.e., Pakistan's debt indicators were worse than most heavily indebted poor countries. The situation has improved somewhat since 1998, and in 2001 the ratio of total debt servicing to Government revenues had declined to 57 percent and external debt servicing to exports to 37 percent.

http://www.adb.org/Documents/CSPs/PAK/2002/csp0102.asp

PS. There's more info in the link.

 

[kidwaibhai]

They also say that Pakistani growth will slow to average, and there are many reports that the economic boom is not all it seems to be on face value. Debt is rising, etc, etc, Mushy is doing all he can to make people "feel good".
Im sure all Indians will realise the words in quote.

this is they are saying about india that indian ifrastructure cna handle this growth and it is moving towards a bottle neck soon. so i think everybody is feeling good

 

[Contrarian]

this is they are saying about india that indian ifrastructure cna handle this growth and it is moving towards a bottle neck soon. so i think everybody is feeling good

Yes, we already know that. Old news, that is Manmohan said we needed $350 Billion investent in 5 years to overcome it. And that is why infrastructure sector is booming in India.

I will provide sources, incidentally i read those articles in dawn newspaper itself.

 

[Adux]

this is they are saying about india that indian ifrastructure cna handle this growth and it is moving towards a bottle neck soon. so i think everybody is feeling good

I agree with you compeletly, If the Infrastructure is not improved dramatically and Rapidly, The Growth will hit a wall for sure.

Things are being done in Emergency over here, But I dont how much of that will be helpful, I dont think we have that much time.