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date: 29 dec 2007



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it has finally happened. 



on thursday, december 27, 2007, the shocking news hit the world that

pakistan's final and only hope of ever becoming a truly democratic

nation was murdered in a hail of bullets followed by the

ever-redundantly familiar suicide bombing. former prime minister

benazir bhutto has been barbarously and cowardly murdered, only two

weeks away from national elections, and pakistan has now entered its

final descent into political anarchy and dissolution. 



on november 6, 2007, after pakistani dictator pervez musharraf

declared the end of fair elections by imposing martial law on his

nation's citizens, i wrote the following short piece titled "accepting

pakistan as a failed nation-state." in it, i sadly predicted that we

would soon witness the dissolution of the artificial state of

"pakistan" in the very near future. now more than ever, that day

seems upon us. and now more than ever, i would urge you to please

read this short article once again, and to do the needful to help

alleviate the suffering of the innocent people of this

long-traumatized region of the world. 



a true leader is willing to die for their people. may we always

remember ms. bhutto's courageous sacrifice for her people.



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accepting pakistan as a failed nation-state



dr. frank morales, ph.d.

center for the study of religion and civilization



on november 3, 2007 pakistani dictator pervez musharraf declared a

state emergency across pakistan, imposed martial law, and suspended

that nation's constitution. in the capital of islamabad, soldiers

forcibly entered the supreme court, surrounded judges' homes, put

opposition leaders under house arrest, and began rounding up thousands

of peaceful political activists and politicians. on monday, november

5th, thousands of lawyers took to the streets to protest the illegal

imposition of martial law in their country. musharraf's response was

to have hundreds of these peaceful lawyers violently dragged through

the streets and arrested. in the last two days alone, an estimated

minimum of 3,500 people have been forcibly incarcerated as political

prisoners. 



for those pakistan watchers who are familiar with the tragic history

of this artificially created state, this latest brutal crackdown on

democracy and freedom by a governing islamist elite that has imposed

dictatorship on its citizens for most of its 60 years of existence,

comes as no surprise. 



originally constituting the western provinces of india, pakistan's

artificial establishment came about on august 14, 1947 as an islamic

bulwark against what the british feared would be an eventually

powerful and prosperous hindu india that could in the future possibly

rival its own colonial interests. previous to 1947, there was never

an historical political entity known as "pakistan" (indeed, the very

term "pakistan" itself was coined from an acronym of punjab, afghania,

kashmir, sindh, and baluchistan). in the last 60 years, pakistan has

instigated three major wars and one minor war against its democratic

neighbor of india. pakistan is a country that has been riddled since

its manufacture with a unsettling history of perennial dictatorships,

martial law, political and religious repression, persecution of

minorities, horrendous ethnic strife, state-sponsored terrorism, and

an irreparably failed economy deceptively propped up by the infusion

of multi-billions of u.s. tax-payers' dollars. 



to the tremendous bewilderment of many, the bush administration has

insisted upon making pakistan a key ally in the war on terror despite

the fact that pakistan has always been itself one of the most

insidiously unremitting state sponsors of terrorism in the world. it

was the infamous isi secret intelligence agency of pakistan that

founded and supported the taliban in its initial take over of

afghanistan and in its ruthless reign until its final overthrow at the

hands of the u.s. military. pakistan has harbored osama bin laden and

his al-qaeda minions in its northwestern frontier territory for the

last five years, and refuses to allow u.s. military personnel into the

area to capture him. pakistan has waged a proxy terrorist war against

the hindu civilian population of kashmir for decades, making hundreds

of thousands of kashmiri hindus refugees in their own country and

devastating a region of india that at one time was one of the most

beautiful and peaceful places on earth. by the sheer weight of the

sum total of its destructive terrorist actions over the years,

pakistan has brazenly shown the world that it not only deserves to be

placed squarely within the so-called axis of evil formulated by

president bush in 2002 ?but that it belongs in the prime spot of

prominence in that notorious list! 



by every measure of what constitutes a successful nation-state,

pakistan has shown the world since its inception that it is incapable

of meeting even the minimal standards of surviving as a viable unified

political-social entity. 



pakistan is an artificial political construct in which several diverse

and historically rival ethnic groups were arbitrarily forced together

into what was supposed to become an islamic melting pot. rather,

pakistan has been faced with calls for independence by many of these

various ethnic groups, which has in turn led to decades of brutal

oppression by the central authorities against ethnic activists. like

yugoslavia in the 1990s, pakistan is destined to be rent asunder by

these contrasting ethnic interests in the very near future. 

pakistan's 165 million long-suffering people would be significantly

better off if this natural process of political devolution were

allowed to occur. 



rather than continuing to support the notion of an

rather than continuing to support the notion of an


impossible-to-salvage central state, pakistan should be allowed to


naturally devolve into the several smaller states historically


comprising the territorial demarcations of its multiple ethnic


divisions. rather than a failed pakistani state, there should be four


independent states of balochistan, afghania (the present "north-west


frontier province" that constitutes the traditional home of the


pashtun people), punjab, and sindh, with "azad" kashmir reverting back


to india. 





nothing less than the naturally occurring disintegration of the


present-day pakistan will ensure the political stability of the


region, the assurance of the human and civil rights of the people of


pakistan, and the eradication of the world's most unstable and


dangerous terrorist state. the latest crippling blow to democracy in


a long history of such blows must be enough to starkly persuade us


that it is time to move on from the failed "pakistan" experiment. 





i would urge all concerned readers to immediately contact their


congress and senate representatives, or their parliamentary


representatives, and demand an end to any continued support to the



representatives, and demand an end to any continued support to the

pakistani dictatorship. 



please forward this to every person, forum, website, and news-outlet

you know. 



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