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2006-05-04 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-05-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oops I think someone's damaged Pakland's self-esteem...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-05-04 01:10|| 2006-05-04 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Much "informal and impromptu" seething to come.

Posted by Fordesque 2006-05-04 01:17|| 2006-05-04 01:17|| Front Page Top

#3 How about a "failed attemp at a state"?

Posted by gromgoru 2006-05-04 08:59|| 2006-05-04 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like the Tourism Board will be putting in lots and lots of overtime...

Posted by tu3031 2006-05-04 09:01|| 2006-05-04 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 It's more like 3 or 4 failed states.

Posted by Grunter 2006-05-04 09:47|| 2006-05-04 09:47|| Front Page Top

#6 #1, Paki guys self esteem is an euphemism for big ego(gained from their pure religion). See that outside of Pakiland in East Asia where they keep to themselves with noticeable aloofness from locals. If an aphorism may be translated as racism, so be it.

Posted by Duh! 2006-05-04 10:04|| 2006-05-04 10:04|| Front Page Top

#7 If Pakland were sealed off from Afghanistan. Afghanistan might really have a chance - proximity to nutcase virus is contagious

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-04 10:20|| 2006-05-04 10:20|| Front Page Top

#8 I think what they're saying is they haven't failed -- they want it to be the way it is.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-05-04 10:59|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-05-04 10:59|| Front Page Top

#9 They haven't failed .... they just haven't succeeded yet.

Posted by DathVader 2006-05-04 11:42|| 2006-05-04 11:42|| Front Page Top

#10 It's ye olde "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" defense.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2006-05-04 12:13|| 2006-05-04 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11 This is simply intolerable to the Pak psyche.

"Failed"? When India is rising? This was not how it was supposed to be.

It was India that was supposed to break up soon after partition. Pakistan was to be rising power.
South Korean delegations actually visited it to learn how a modern developing state was run.

The Indian actor Nasruddin Shah (guy who played Captain nemo in the horrible League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) is visiting Pakistan now.

Know what they asked him? Did he believe in the Two Nation Theory.

Sixty years after partition they seek affirmation that their state should even exist.

Pakistan was to be at least the equal of India.

To have it not just far behind India but in the failed state category is to negate all what Pakistan was created for.

Posted by john 2006-05-04 17:37|| 2006-05-04 17:37|| Front Page Top

#12 See above on slicing and dicing and Pashtun seething.

Posted by 6 2006-05-04 18:09|| 2006-05-04 18:09|| Front Page Top

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