Fixing Pakistan is no rocket science


By Our Staff Reporter | From the Newspaper
(3 hours ago) Today





KARACHI, Aug 13: Secular Pakistan as Jinnah wanted, says one Dawn reader. Complete implementation of Islam; enough of man-made laws, suggests another as an answer to the many problems Pakistan faces today.

A special report entitled Independence Day, distributed with todays Dawn, is styled as a Roundtable Conference. Held on our pages, the moot comprises opinions solicited from leaders from across the national spectrum. Participants were asked the question: What is wrong with Pakistan today and how do we fix it?

Pakistans problem is not extremism, poverty or unemployment but distribution of resources, says Syed Faisal Sabzwari of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, whilst analyst and legislator, Ayaz Amir, wonders why we cannot live and behave like a normal country.

Mushahid Hussain of the PML-Q believes: Fixing Pakistan is no rocket science, and Naimatullah Khan of the JI says: A change of leadership has become inevitable.

Dr Mubashir Hasan, one of the founders of the Pakistan Peoples Party, a former minister and now a peace activist, says that the trust deficit is between the ruling elites of India and Pakistan and not the people of the two countries. Artist and educationist Salima Hashmi assures us that the creative force is alive and in good working order in Pakistan. The rest of the world can see it. But can we? she asks.

While Asma Jahangir argues for reducing the role of religion in politics, Sherry Rehman points to the possible pitfalls of devolution of power to the provinces if the provinces fail to build capacity to exercise those powers or try to undo the consensus reached at the national level by rolling back on issues related to gender biases and minorities.

Senator Raza Rabbani, the head of the parliamentary committee which hammered out the Eighteenth Amendment, defends the move by calling it A Pakistani renaissance.

The Independence Day special report, thus, presents views expressed on the history and future of Pakistan by eminent Pakistanis from across the national spectrum: Baloch leader Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, corporate head Asad Omar, religious scholar Mufti Munib-ur-Rehman, pop singer Shehzad Roy, rights activist Zohra Yusuf, political economist S. Akbar Zaidi, Street Theatre producer Madiha Gohar, and many more movers and shakers actively involved in shaping the national agenda.

Dawn readers, too, were asked the same question as was put to the opinion leaders. They responded overwhelmingly from across Pakistan and the diaspora via a survey run on the newspapers Internet Edition. Independence Day special also showcases some of these views for the benefit of the print edition readers.

The diversity of opinions expressed in the special report is a confirmation of Jinnahs conviction that only a pluralistic society is the way forward.

Details in Independence Day Special

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Pakistan Airforce: The largest distributor of Indian airforce parts in Asia



Pathankot Strike
8 F-86Fs of No 19 Squadron led by Squadron Leader Sajjad Haider struck Pathankot airfield. With carefully positioned dives and selecting each individual aircraft in their protected pens for their strafing attacks, the strike elements completed a textbook operation against Pathankot. Wing Commander M G Tawab, flying one of the two Sabres as tied escorts overhead, counted 14 wrecks burning on the airfield. Among the aircraft destroyed on the ground were nearly all of the IAFs Soviet-supplied Mig-21s till then received, none of which were seen again during the War.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHlzP69n9c

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Fixing Koran is also no rocket science. But we don't expect Koranimals to do it.

Hey wow that is pretty funny, the article that Prado posted pretty much confirms what Provost and I (and others) have been saying for months now...

• that the ISI and Pakistani military run Pakistan
• the ISI and the Pakistani military are corrupt and inept

...now of course intelligent Pakistani's already knew this, hence why they don't waste their time coming up with convoluted and illogical conspiracy theories blaming the west for all of Pakistan's woes...alas intelligent Pakistani's seem to be few and far between here on WAFF, but I suppose we can always hope for the future.

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"All your lives a cosmic joke, fill your days with piss and smoke The wolf waits at your door" Motorhead, March or Die

It actually is harder rocket science, if you give a rocket scientist a problem he ultimately will solve it in a reasonable time. Pakistan on the other hand...

phuckistan on the othr hand needs mullah science.

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Quotations by global leaders on phuckistan

British PM David Cameron: There will be lots of questions about what support system bin Laden had in Pakistan, and we need those questions answered

White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan: Certainly his location there outside of the capital raises questions. We are talking to the Pakistanis about this. It's inconceivable that bin Laden did not have a support system in the country that allowed him to remain there for an extended period of time

Our government is in fiscal distress. To make contributions to a country that isn't going to be fully supportive is a problem for many, said US senate intelligence committee chair Dianne Feinstein

German chancellor Angela Merkel: The al-Qaida leader's death has exposed some gaps in antiterrorism campaign

French foreign minister Alain Juppe: I find it a little difficult to imagine that the presence of someone like bin Laden ... in a relatively small town could go completely unnoticed. Pakistans position lacks clarity in our view

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=CAP&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI&Enter=true&Skin=TOINEW&AW=1304526620083

bhangees need cow piss or they cant function...staraight outta mata jees fresh tap

^^ maybe you should try it too, look where drinking cow piss has helped us reach and look at the gutter u call a country.

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Quotations by global leaders on phuckistan

British PM David Cameron: There will be lots of questions about what support system bin Laden had in Pakistan, and we need those questions answered

White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan: Certainly his location there outside of the capital raises questions. We are talking to the Pakistanis about this. It's inconceivable that bin Laden did not have a support system in the country that allowed him to remain there for an extended period of time

Our government is in fiscal distress. To make contributions to a country that isn't going to be fully supportive is a problem for many, said US senate intelligence committee chair Dianne Feinstein

German chancellor Angela Merkel: The al-Qaida leader's death has exposed some gaps in antiterrorism campaign

French foreign minister Alain Juppe: I find it a little difficult to imagine that the presence of someone like bin Laden ... in a relatively small town could go completely unnoticed. Pakistans position lacks clarity in our view

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=CAP&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI&Enter=true&Skin=TOINEW&AW=1304526620083

^^u still remaineds world largest sh@thole

largest number of povertieds ugly ignorats illieterates toiletless malnourisheds porsutions karmasutrie ganges dirtieds etc etc etc.

when u have one country with more povertieds than u, then only u can talk of "advancements". rest assureds, no country wants thised "honour" like henuds markings on their foreheads beings calling dotheads.



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I am old Christiankiller
Sorry for offensive to our good religion christian brothers
I am not hating christians

INDIA > islam

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Quotations by global leaders on phuckistan

British PM David Cameron: There will be lots of questions about what support system bin Laden had in Pakistan, and we need those questions answered

White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan: Certainly his location there outside of the capital raises questions. We are talking to the Pakistanis about this. It's inconceivable that bin Laden did not have a support system in the country that allowed him to remain there for an extended period of time

Our government is in fiscal distress. To make contributions to a country that isn't going to be fully supportive is a problem for many, said US senate intelligence committee chair Dianne Feinstein

German chancellor Angela Merkel: The al-Qaida leader's death has exposed some gaps in antiterrorism campaign

French foreign minister Alain Juppe: I find it a little difficult to imagine that the presence of someone like bin Laden ... in a relatively small town could go completely unnoticed. Pakistans position lacks clarity in our view

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=CAP&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI&Enter=true&Skin=TOINEW&AW=1304526620083