And while Pakistan’s oligarchs (military and otherwise) play strategic politics, most of Pakistan remains poor and corrupt. The military’s machinations haven’t helped anybody but themselves and their rich friends. Both the US and China play along with them, somehow missing the point that a government has anything at all to with actually …
And while Pakistan’s oligarchs (military and otherwise) play strategic politics, most of Pakistan remains poor and corrupt. The military’s machinations haven’t helped anybody but themselves and their rich friends. Both the US and China play along with them, somehow missing the point that a government has anything at all to with actually maintaining some level of fairness and stability for all. It’s been going on since the British decided to partition their Indian dominion by religion, just before independence, as they had already done with Northern Ireland and would soon do with Israel. Almost eighty years later, what seemed as nice expediencies are still causing trouble.
And while Pakistan’s oligarchs (military and otherwise) play strategic politics, most of Pakistan remains poor and corrupt. The military’s machinations haven’t helped anybody but themselves and their rich friends. Both the US and China play along with them, somehow missing the point that a government has anything at all to with actually maintaining some level of fairness and stability for all. It’s been going on since the British decided to partition their Indian dominion by religion, just before independence, as they had already done with Northern Ireland and would soon do with Israel. Almost eighty years later, what seemed as nice expediencies are still causing trouble.