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| India-Pakistan |
| Strategic boomeranging |
| 2007-01-21 |
| By Ejaz Haider 1965. 1999. Thirty-four years. No change of thinking. We are consistent and dogged. That’s a quality generally found among the asinine population Let’s get this straight. Every state needs an army which means the army is a public good; which also means no objective person can be opposed to the army per se. The problem begins when an army decides that it wants to have a state. The categories of fair and foul go haywire at that point and the politics of a state is turned into one long walpurgesnacht. I never knew that a remote and somewhat forgotten city of Southern Punjab, Bahawalpur, would come alive on these pages. The last time it got regular projection was when friend N, now Lady N, wrote Letter from Bahawalpur. But that was years ago and Bahawalpur had to wait for the recent exchange (Dr Siddiqa, angry letter, my column, a spate of angry letters!) to emerge on the national map. The other good thing that has happened is the letting out of a secret (actually not so secret in hack-business) — there is a full stable of bhanjas in this country who jump at the drop of a hat to defend the mamas. |
| Posted by:john |
| #4 Like SAARC itself, an utter waste of time and money |
| Posted by: john 2007-01-21 13:46 |
| #3 Thanks John. That's one Ugly Duckling of a website. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-01-21 12:41 |
| #2 Official site of SAARC |
| Posted by: john 2007-01-21 10:13 |
| #1 Hell of a brave editorial. BTW what's Bangladesh is a separate SAARC state mean? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-01-21 09:27 |