On Thursday 11 Dec 2008 12:18:03 pm Biju Chacko wrote: > What nonsense. An unstable Pakistan is the cause of the crap that we > have to face. On the contrary, we ought to be encouraging more trade > and industrial links with Pakistan. Giving Pakistan an economic > incentive to have good relations with India will do more than all the > stuff in the article.
This is complete and uninformed rubbish. With respect you have no idea how Pakistanis have refused to respond to offers of trade and the idea of giving each other a "most favored nation" status for trade. Pakistan would be unstable either way, with or without trade. Trade with India will not make Pakistan stable because Pakistan hesitates to trade with India and sees India as an existential threat just as much as many Indians see Pakistan as an existential threat to India. With India being bigger and more diverse - it is easier to shrug off aor laugh off the "threat to India" from Pakistan - but Pakistan does not see India that way. The level of ignorance about Pakistan, and the desperate clinging to cliches by Indiasn is mind boggling given the number of articles that appear that cleary spell out the Pakistani viewpoint and hurdles to good relations. shiv
