[Recently I read
a provocative analysis by Pervez Hoodbhoy on what is happening in
Pakistan and how Pakistan army has contributed to the present state of
disorder there. I am sharing it here with the readers. It presents a
scary picture because an unstable Pakistan is a potential danger not
only for India but South Asia as a whole.]
By Pervez Hoodbhoy, 12 August 2011
[Why is the Army getting
weaker? The problem is not the lack of materiel – guns, bombs, men, and money.
These have relatively easy fixes. Instead it is the military’s diminished moral
power and authority, absence of charismatic leadership, and visibly evident
accumulation of property and wealth. More than anything else, the Army has sought
to please both the Americans as well as their enemies]
Pakistan bleeds from a thousand cuts. If things had
gone according to plan it is India that should have been hurting now, not
Pakistan. The army’s 25 years-old low-cost, high-impact strategy of covert
warfare would have liberated Kashmir and secured Afghanistan from Indian
influence.
