Pakistan's failed state card

Two countries were born the same year. One went to Mars and other is still struggling to keep the country intact, leave alone progress or development. In Pakistan, there are no administrators. The country is governed by impulsive corrupt leaders. There are no long term planning. They do make plans but it gets derailed half way because of corruption and loot everywhere in the name of religion, political party, army or foreign relations. Their own failures to provide good governance to the people are attributed to mostly foreign powers or neighbors. That's the easiest excuse to remain in power. Priority is to build untainted judiciary, infrastructure and provide good education. In order to get these things done, country needs investment. Who is going to invest into projects in a country where violence, terrorism, and religious fundamentalism are order of the day? But then here is the catch. Pakistan has long proved to be adept at diplomatically levering its weakness into strength. Now it is using the threat of its possible implosion to rake in record-level bilateral and multilateral aid. Bountiful aid has been pouring in without any requirement that Pakistan address the root cause of its emergence as the epicenter of global terrorism — a state-instilled jihad culture and military-created terrorist outfits and militias. Even though the scourge of Pakistani terrorism emanates not so much from the Islamist mullahs as from generals who reared the forces of jihad, rewards are being showered on the procreators of terrorism. Pakistan continues to harvest tens of billions of dollars by playing the failing-state card. Pakistan remains too useful a pawn for external powers involved in this region. These powers thus are unlikely to let it fail. The talk of “no blank checks” and “an audit trail” has proven little more than spin. Put simply, Islamabad is being allowed to reap a terrorist windfall.