26/11 was indeed India’s 9/11. The relations between the two nuclear neighbors of the Indian sub-continent have been stressed again. Terrorism is nothing new to India and most people have got used to this nonsense. There were aplenty of cowardly attacks by the home-grown enemies first, and now we have to fight this Tier-II of the group: The Non-State Actors of Pakistan. The Non-State Actors work on behalf of Pakistan and Taliban though.

In case of Pakistan, nothing like free-trade, cultural exchange in the form of movies and music, trains plying between the two countries seem to be working. A positive outcome to have come out of all this is a good harmony found between the middle-classes of the two countries. We Indians enjoy Pakistani music; Pakistanis enjoy Indian movies. Many Pakistani educated citizens were expressing their grief over the Mumbai attacks, but the Military rule in Pakistan hasn’t changed a bit. Even if it is a democracy as a cover for the world, the real men in power are those in military.

There are three main fundamental units in Pakistan. The terrorists a.k.a. non-state actors, the military, the democratic government. The terrorists do the ground level work; the military is always at an aggressive when it comes to India and they are the ones who have a good power in the government’s decisions; and the cover to represent to the world, the democratic government which is passively in support of the terrorists and the military. Not passive support, an open support we can say now. All this is certainly helping them from not being declared a ‘terrorist state’.

In case of China and Taiwan free-trade was the most wonderful thing that worked for them. The relations are not friendly now, but certainly they aren’t as stressed as before. In one of their recent elections in this decade, there were two political parties contesting for elections. One had propaganda of bringing in more businesses from their rival China in electronic component manufacturing; another had the stance on more China-related issues. People finally opted for the party which offered more jobs.

In short, motherboards won over motherlands!

Something like this in India and Pakistan issue is desirable but not that easy. Pakistan’s gravest mistake was to let open the Afghan border. That has allowed many Talibanis to come and stay in the country. Also, I doubt what holds Pakistan as a nation together apart from an anti-India stance. It would have been chopped off into pieces if this anti-India stance did not come up. A different Sindh, a different Punjab, a separate Balochistan and Waziristan, all hating the North West Frontier Province and the demand of a separate Pakhtoonistan in Afghan-Pak border was to happen in reality by now very easily. The nation still remains intact with a separate Bangladesh and the daily terrorist attacks from Taliban. The daily attacks are enough to show the Taliban’s loyalty to Pakistan even in crisis with India. Also, 4 Indians were caught by the Pakistan Police in connection with the Lahore blasts, but Taliban has accepted the responsibility for that same very attack. This one incident is enough to show whether Pakistan is a country deserving free-trade and other goodies with India or not. When Zardari’s wife was also a victim of terrorism, it seemed Zardari was a reliable bet for India on new relations with Pakistan. He is also on the radar of these terrorists, but his soft corner for them is much higher than his own late wife it seems.

Any guess, what will be next? There’s Taliban with it’s aspirations of world Islamic conquest. The biggest enemies of The Taliban are democracy, freedom and equality. Despite all their clashes with Pakistan Army, please note that Pakistan is not remotely enemy no.1 of Taliban. Their real enemy is something else. The Taliban’s chief has shown strong support to Pakistan in case if a war with India goes. They have a string army of 1000 suicide bombers ready. The martyrs who die in suicide bombing get to dance with 72 virgins in paradise is what the central theme is in brainwashing youth. Those who are unhappy with 4 provided here go on to become suicide bombers. The greed of a sexy after-life can have great impact on some closed conservative and uneducated minds. After removing democracy in Pakistan, there next target is naturally going to be India. Attempts to root out democracy have been unearthed in Bangladesh last week, and Guinea in North Africa has military rule from last 4/5 days. Shall we call them agents of Taliban?

Considering all that is happening in Pakistan, the menace of Taliban, the overall ideology of the public (of which most are uneducated and illiterate), it is very difficult for Pakistan to get a place in WTO and to become a progressive democratic state. The investment in schools and other educational institutions from Pakistan Govt. has been negligible. It can be called as nothing but a failed state. The only good thing we can expect is that Taliban should not take over Pakistan and be successful in uprooting the government out there. The controls of the nuclear bomb will go in the hands of the devil’s people then! Pakistan has not been successful in its issues with India, it hasn’t been successful as a decent economy, it hasn’t been successful in handling the attacks from Taliban terrorists, and it hasn’t been successful in at least getting a place of trust in the world as a country.

What it has ever been successful is in showing aggression to India by deploying army at border, by deploying nukes at the border.