Pakistan realizes its useless

January 13, 2005

pakistanis now realize that they are behind india in all aspects

from http://www.dawn.com/weekly/cowas/cowas.htm

There is yet more depressing news. The Swiss-based World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently issued its Global Competitiveness Report for 2004-2005 evaluating and ranking 104 countries. It has been compiled by Michael Porter of Harvard University, Klaus Schwab of the WEF, Xavier Sala-i-Martin of Columbia University and Augusto Lapez-Claros of the WEF.

The report is broken up into various sections. Under the heading 'Technological readiness', India is listed at 26 with Korea and Luxembourg above it and Panama and Malaysia beneath. Pakistan comes in at 84 sandwiched between Gambia and Nigeria on top and Ukraine and Mali below.

'Firm-level technology absorption' has India at 18, with Norway and New Zealand above and Austria and the Slovak Republic below. Pakistan is listed at 44, under the Czech Republic and Bahrain and over Namibia and Jordan.

'Prevalence of foreign technology licensing' lists India at 8, with New Zealand and Japan above and the United Arab Emirates and Germany below. At 67, Pakistan lies between Tanzania and Nigeria and Costa Rica and Venezuela.

Under 'FDI and technology transfer' India lies at 20 below Kenya and the United Kingdom and above Luxembourg and South Africa. We are at 96, between Ecuador and Mali and Ukraine and Macedonia.

'Quality of scientific research readiness' has India at 17, below France and Norway, and above New Zealand and the Russian Federation. We lie at 94, below Bangladesh and Vietnam and above Peru and Ecuador.

Under 'Company spending on research and development', India is listed at 26, with South Africa and Ireland above and China and Indonesia below. We enter at 101, between Bolivia and Paraguay and Angola and Chad. The last listed under this heading is Ethiopia at 104.

India tops the list at No.1 under 'Availability of scientists and engineers' with Finland at 2 and Israel at 3, while Pakistan lies in the second half at 61 with Slovenia and Bangladesh above and Ghana and Croatia below.

Depressing also was a report in the press last week from Khalid Hasan in Washington on the subject of the annual 'index of economic freedom' exercise conducted by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal. Pakistan is included among 10 of the 155 countries surveyed whose performance 'worsened' during 2004. It is now bracketed with Ethiopia, Uganda, Haiti, Bangladesh, Morocco, Qatar, Cuba and Tunisia. Pakistan is listed at 133, and India at 118.

Are we destined forever to be just hovering above the bottom of the list?

maadhav · January 14, 2005

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USA Today

January 11, 2005

Pg. 15

When Democracy Fails

As Iraqi election nears, it is worth noting the ugly truth in Pakistan

By Ralph Peters

Democracy is the most humane and desirable form of government yet devised by humankind. From Afghanistan to Ukraine, democracy's recent successes have exceeded expectations. It deserves American support wherever it has a chance of taking hold.

The problem is that it doesn't always work.

As the vital Iraqi elections approach, there is more reason for sober optimism than for pre-emptive declarations of failure. More than 80% of the country's population is anxious to vote, with only foreign terrorists and an embittered minority of Sunni Arabs actively hostile to the balloting. But we need to think beyond the polls to understand how new democracies fail.

Pakistan has been the greatest disappointment among the major states that tried democracy. It should have been a contender, having begun its nationhood with a legacy of British legal traditions, an educated political class and a vigorous press. Instead, Pakistan became a swamp of corruption, demagogy and hatred. Those who believe in democracy need to recognize an ugly truth: Military government remains Pakistan's final hope — and even that hope is a slight one.

This is painful for us to accept. Well-intentioned Americans with no personal experience of the outrageous criminality that came to characterize every one of Pakistan's major political parties rebel against the notion that any military government can ever be good. Certainly, military regimes are despicable. Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government, albeit imperfect, is the sole exception in the world today.

Pakistan is an artificial country, cobbled together from ethnically different parts and flooded early on with Muslim refugees from India — who still form a distinct social and political bloc. The Pathans of the northwest frontier have more in common with their Afghan neighbors than with the Sindhis on the other side of the Indus River, whose culture reflects that of Mughal India. The Punjabis of Lahore inhabit a different civilization from the tribesmen of Baluchistan. Pakistan's Kashmiris are something else entirely.

Instead of seeking unity, Pakistan's political parties exploited internal divisions for short-term advantage. Well-educated political families, such as the Bhuttos, took a page from the Chinese nationalists, telling Westerners exactly what we wanted to hear. Preaching democracy and the rule of law abroad, they looted shamelessly at home. And they blamed the colonial powers, then America, for the destruction of a once-promising society. No matter their political allegiance, Pakistan's party bosses stole everything in sight, reducing the country to stinging poverty and stunning violence. It wasn't just the remote frontiers that became lawless, but even Karachi, Pakistan's largest city.

In order to win elections, one party after another pandered to Muslim extremists. English lessons faded from the classroom, robbing the country of a great advantage it had enjoyed in a globalizing world. About 3,000 schools funded by the government were found to be non-existent “ghost schools.” Rural landholders and party hacks had pocketed the money. Fundamentalist madrassas filled the educational vacuum.

I recall standing in a classroom in Murree Hills, a once-lovely hill station dating to colonial days, as a young man lectured me about America's theft of Pakistan's wealth. That was what he had been taught. Yet, I could see over his shoulder the hideously eroded mountainsides stripped of timber with the connivance of local officials. Elsewhere, I saw poverty in the shadow of the extravagant wealth of political insiders. Pakistan's elite had robbed the country of its future.

In traveling through Pakistan, one thing became unmistakable: the least-corrupt institution was the military. The military government attempting to rescue Pakistan is the country's last hope. The alternatives are chaos and terror. We may wish it were otherwise: Military government is repugnant. But the world is more complex than we try to make it. Perverted democracy brought ruin upon more than 100 million Pakistani Muslims. We all are paying the price.

At present, Musharraf's government is a useful ally in combating terror, but its greater contribution lies in preventing the country from collapsing into chaos. We all should hope that the day will come when Pakistan's military government becomes obsolete. But for now we must do two things: resist the cynical pleas of the displaced politicians who devastated their own homeland, and learn what we can from democracy's failure on the banks of the Indus.

The two essential lessons are pertinent to Iraq.

*First, democracy faces an uphill struggle in tribal cultures where blood ties trump national interests.

*Second, democracy has no worse enemy than corruption.

If held on schedule, the Iraqi elections will be the most openly staged in the Arab world. But if Iraq cannot rise above the culture of corruption endemic to the region and cannot persuade Shiite and Sunni Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen, Assyrians and others to form political alliances that transcend ethnicity and religious identity, it's unlikely democracy will take root and endure.

The world doesn't need another Pakistan, where only bayonets hold the state together. If anyone dooms democracy in Iraq, it won't be the foreign terrorists, but a corrupt political elite. The politicians pave the way for the generals.

Ralph Peters, a member of USA TODAY's board of contributors, is author of the forthcoming book New Glory.

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January 14, 2005

Is there a way for pakistan to ever reform?I dont think there is any way.

January 15, 2005

those who go to hell cause others suffer like in hell before going to hell. rather than watch pak go to hell and do nothing, we need to send it to hell faster, so that we suffer less.

another good way is this:

first make india free from islam by helping the muslims give up islam voluntrily or with some friendly but firm pressure.

then help pak break up and let the broken parts reunite with india. then again make them free from islam.

when islam is out of bharat,

there will be peace and prosperity.

else not.

same for communism.

January 20, 2005

These who wish bad for others , ultimately they collapse because of there mentally retarded hatred and this is what now happening in pakistan.

Pakistan created taliban , now taliban is sucking pakistan . pakistan send terroists to India , now shia-sunni maha-sngram is sucking mosques of each other's community.Pakistan always wantned India to break , Today Bangaladesh is a new country.

Pakistan is a failed country with no hope, the biggest problem with pakistan is its inferiority complex w.r.t. India.