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Pakistan’s way out: Euthanasia  Euthanasia has very few supporters no matter how excruciating the pain is for the terminally ill. Unfortunately, this humanitarianism extends to nations, even when the writing on the wall screams that the failing state must be put out of its misery for the sake of giving its citizens a second chance. Yugoslavia could have been dismantled well before the world witnessed ethnic cleansing. USSR, fortunately, got away with very little blood letting while dissolving, by not coming clattering down. Many were slaughtered in Bangladesh before it broke free. The Pakistani Generals responsible for the slaughter of intellectuals in Dhaka, got away. CNN’s Christiana Annanpour never mentioned about this in her TV serial “Scream Bloody Murder”. When a state is made up of a number of ethnic groups, it has a chance of survival if there is equitable power sharing between the groups. If in a state the army does the back seat driving and it is made of only one of the ethnic groups, fissures are bound to develop. If the state to start with is not secular, it breeds a Spanish-Inquisition type of atmosphere of non tolerance. When a radical group starts espousing an extreme version of governance where women’s and minorities’ rights are denied, and the group has sympathizers in the ruling elite of the state, the state’s down-hill hurtle begins. The Taliban in Pakistan is 100 Kms from Islamabad and Pakistan continues to negotiate with the USA with a gun to its own head. Punjab dominates Pakistan and the Taliban has struck repeatedly with impunity at Punjab’s heart, Lahore. Sufi Balochistan, Sindh and the Shia dominant Northern areas watch in horror at the creeping menace. The nuclear weapons are in the control of the dominating Punjabis, and the USA is talking of putting Pakistan on an aid drip and prolonging the misery. No one seems to be bothered about Balochistanj, Sindh and the Northern areas yearning to live and let live. A beginning has been made with Barack Obama wanting to make up with Iran. Holbrook consults India during his hand-wringing visits to Pakistan. The two countries which will be most effected by the happenings in Pakistan, India and Iran which sandwich Pakistan, must be given a stake. A surgical salvaging action is called for to isolate the cancerous areas. Once the cancerous provinces (Punjab and NWFP) are isolated, the oxygen for carrying out another 9/11 will be shut out. The Taliban will be land locked. Currently aid to Pakistan from the USA is leaching down to the Taliban. Obama has woken up to this, where as Bush was blissfully unaware. Gwadar port is too uncomfortably close to world’s most important choke point, the straits of Hormuz, to be allowed to fall into Taliban’s hands. The Nukes are ripening to fall in the laps of the Taliban. Does Pakistan have to suffer a slow death resulting in things getting too hot for any chestnuts (Balochistan, Sindh and Northern areas) to be pulled out? Will the chemotherapy of US aid help Pakistan or is it better to go in for surgery? Chemotherapy weakens the patient who cannot be trusted to safe guard its nuclear weapons. Defanging Pakistan by taking out its WMDs through air strikes by USA, India and Israel and, salvaging Balochistan, Sindh and Northern Areas through armed intervention by Iran and India needs to be considered. C N Anand's action-thriller, ' Tarbela Damned , Pakistan Tamed', published in July, 2007, fictionalizes the consequences of Tarbela dam failing.
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