Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Pakistan Needs to Imitate India

Those are some opinions over here in AmeriKa, anyway -- according to the agenda-pushing newspapers.

Related: Mossad And India Spy Agency Team Up, Target Pakistan

Given the appropriate op space in the AmeriKan jewspaper.

"Pakistan, rebranded" by Imaduddin Ahmed and Kapil Komireddi | March 25, 2010

Imaduddin Ahmed is a global business scholar at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Kapil Komireddi is an Indian writer.

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“PAKISTAN is’’ and you’ll find a host of common searches: “a failed state,’’ “a terrorist country,’’ “doomed’’ and — encompassing all of the above — “the problem.’’ Pakistan’s image is both the effect and a potential cause of terrorism: it scares away business investments, and leaves jobless youth without opportunities, ripe for mullahs who promise riches in the afterlife. In significant ways, however, the actual security risks faced by private enterprises in Pakistan is no greater than the violent threat they face in India.

It is a testament to India’s public relations success that extraordinary threats, both internal and external, have done little to diminish India’s standing as a favored destination for foreign capital. In 2008, Islamist terrorists killed at least 170 civilians in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, exposing the government’s inadequacy at protecting its citizens.

Yeah, except it wasn't "Islamists" at all:

Mumbai Case Collapses

Headley’s Case: Curiouser And Curiouser

Headley Names 6 Pak Armymen In Karachi Project

Oh, the AmeriKan asset as assisting, 'eh?

Related:

"Obama Sacrifices India

A large number of Indians now suspect that the CIA carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

According to India’s Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar: “For the first time in recent years, the Indian public has closed ranks with prevalent opinion in Pakistan that sees the US as a diabolic, self-centered power, which double-crosses its partners, friends and allies in single-minded pursuit of its interests.” (A spy unsettles US-India ties)...."

Also see: Headley Saga: Mumbai attack was a joint IB-CIA-Mossad-RSS project

Multi-State Terrorist Collaboration In Mumbai

Yeah, it's all Pakistan's fault.

This was not a one-off occurrence. The same year, Hindu extremists had claimed at least 100 Christian lives in the state of Orissa. In 2002, Hindu extremists slaughtered up to 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat; Human Rights Watch found that the attacks were organized with extensive police participation and in close cooperation with officials of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the ruling state party.

Yes, AMAZING how that gets SUBSTANTIALLY LESS COVERAGE in my agenda-pushing Zionist War Daily than "suiciders" and "terrorists," 'eh, readers?

Meanwhile, minutes away from Hyderabad, India’s answer to Silicon Valley, a Maoist insurgency has taken grip that spreads across nine Indian states and has already cost at least 6,000 lives, according to the BBC.

Related: Indian minister: Maoists are a greater threat than Islamic terrorists

Secessionist movements in the north, west, and eastern parts of India are challenging the Indian state’s endurance, and are often met with extra-constitutional brutality by the state.

Those get even less coverage here because, after all, India is a "friend," right?

Despite India’s travails, it is known by the amicable faces of actors Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, sitarist Ravi Shankar and a string of Ms. Universes. Were it not for their global outreach and the consequent foreign investment it secured, the Indian narrative today would be very different.

You got it?

So how can Pakistan emulate India’s success?

Why would they want to?

First, Pakistan must address the major difference between the two countries: their Standard and Poor currency convertibility ratings. India is rated BBB+, Pakistan has a B-, the same as Ukraine and Argentina. Institutions seeking investments would do well, therefore, to direct investors to reputable insurers that insure against currency inconvertibility, as well as against political violence and terrorism.

Yeah, YOU HAVE TO PLEASE the MARKETS by shoveling CITIZEN'S TAX LOOT at them!

Pakistan would also do well to emphasize that it has fewer regulatory restrictions on foreign investment than neighboring India and that it ranks 58 places higher than India in the World Bank’s Doing Business’’ 2010 report; that, like India, it has a substantial middle-class population fluent in English; and that until Lehman Brothers and the food and oil price shocks of 2008, its stock exchange was growing at a rapid rate.

Finally, Pakistan and its allies must help Pakistan exert soft-power, as its larger, similarly troubled neighbor successfully has, in order to negate associations with terrorism and failure.

Lifetime human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir, Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, who stood-up for an independent judiciary, and Aitzaz Ahsan, his lead counsel, are citizen heroes no less worthy of international status than Aung San Suu Kyim, the pro-democracy opposition leader under house arrest in Myanmar.

When they mention those fellas in the same breath as the CIA's asset in Burma I smell a stink, readers.

"There is widespread belief that Justice Chaudhry was allowed to assume his post under a deal brokered by the army chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani. This was facilitated by the Americans and the British to ensure that their interests were not jeopardized and that transfer of power from one set of American puppets to another went smoothly."

Yeah, as we see in Iraq, that is how we do things.

Has another deal been cut, readers?

Mukhtaran Mai, a village girl punished to gang-rape and who responded by founding schools in her community, and philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, who set up the largest private ambulance service network in the world and holds the record for the longest time worked without having taken a holiday, are no less noteworthy than Mother Teresa.

The White House is linking Muslim entrepreneurs from around the world with US businesses with which they may have synergy. The US State Department ought to do the same for Pakistani artists. Contemporary English-language fiction writers such as Mohammad Hanif entertainingly narrate stories of Pakistan. The late Sufi tenor Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and pop artists Atif Aslam and Ali Zafar have a following throughout South Asia, but are virtually unheard of beyond.

Yes, make your culture more like ours. That is the answer to everyone's problems.

Why do you think AmeriKa is in such great shape?

With a little help from its friends, Pakistan can emulate India by imprinting the face of Ali Zafar over AQ Khan in the minds of foreign investors.

Yeah, who cares what their people might think.

Enticing more investment and hence job opportunities, Pakistan and friends will have done their part to lure urchins with constructive, rather than destructive, aspirations.

As opposed to the U.S. who has been infiltrated by the destructive Zionist element that now controls its government.

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Related:

"Conspiracy Theories, Pakistan’s Achilles Heel

Pakistan is likely to continue to face international ridicule as we seek to explain away all our problems by blaming America-India-Israel or whoever is fashionable at the time. While in several cases we may rightly point at foreign interference and failings, our inability to help ourselves seems to baffle both foreign and local observers.

Just so you know what is really important.

Forget all that false-flag stuff.