Statesmanship Needed

Mr. SR,

Forgive me for being so explicit, but it seems that you never really could get into any good achool in Pakistan!

IN-NA LILLAH HAY VA IN-NA ELIHAY RAAJOUN

Pakistan has just exploded its nukes. This shall spell an economic suicide. Brace yourselves and prepare for the rough rollercoaster ride.

Pakistan was created by the old boys of Alighar,

It has been killed by old boys from Government College, and

It will be sold, piecemeal, by the old boys from Aitchison College.

...SR

Re: Dilawar Syed

Thanks for the moral support. I shall be in NYC on Friday night and will find out the program details. On Saturday morning I`ll post the program details.

...SR

CLIP THE HAWKS’ WINGS

The government of Pakistan is sending a three member legislative delegation to Washington next week. The purpose of the delegation is not specifically stated, however, it is clear that their context is the ongoing nuclear drama in South Asia.

The delegation consists of two MNAs, Ijaz ul Haq and Sarwar Cheema and Senator Akram Zaki, who is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. While Zaki was formerly secretary general foreign affairs and ambassador to US, China, Nigeria and Philippines, the qualifications of the other two members are open to conjecture.

Three qualities, however, are shared by this trio:
(1) Their egotistical and ambitious political opportunism,
(2) their hawkish jingoism, and
(3) their utter oblivion towards the economic realities of today’s world.

The trio lands in New York on June 29th and ‘goes to work’ on the Pakistani community in the NY area on May 30th and 31st. Their program is being handled by Mr. Zaidi, the consul general.

On the first of June they travel to Washington to meet with Congress. (Interestingly, a congressional sub-committee is scheduled to start hearings on the cancellation of IPP agreements by the Pak Govt - this had been scheduled way ahead of all this nuke business, but still, the timing couldn’t have been worse for Pakistan.)

The purpose of this posting is to invite all those chowkwallas who clamor for ‘action’ to converge on New York and intercede with the delegation members. I, for one, intend to go there and raise the voice of reason in the nest of misguided Pakistani hawks.

Make yourselves available on Saturday and Sunday if you can get to New York. Perhaps someone can talk sense into the deaf ears of the hawks that they should stop waving their little atomic ‘lulli’ (mini-penis) in front of that exhibitionist Vajpie’s nuclear ‘Long Dong.’ It will impress no one, and will earn a lot of hardship for the already impoverished and exploited population of the Indus Valley.

Mr. Zaki, in yesterday’s daily Nation, had the temerity to suggest that Pakistan could refuse to honor its debt obligations if the West puts pressure on Islamabad. What this could do to the country’s financial well being does not take an economics Ph.D. to figure out.

They claim that New Delhi’s mood is very aggressive as was that of Nazi Germany in 1938. The analogy could back fire on Mr. Zaki. What moral claim can a Pakistan Government have on decrying the ills of Nazism when their owns blasphemy laws put them in league with the National Socialists of the Third Reich?

Unfortunately, our ruling elite has no concept of reality. They live so deep down in their well that to them the sky is a tiny round-shaped blue disc directly overhead. If you tell them about the horizon they look at you funny.

...SR

Dilawer wrote:
``It does not take a celebrated economist to predict what impact additional economic sanctions, imposed as a result of a nuclear test, will
have on Pakistan?s economy.``

Well, I guess it does. Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan`s experienced finance minister predicted with reasonable certainty that the expected sanctions as a result of the nuclear test by Pakistan would have rather minimal affect on Pak economy. It can be argued that he`s just a govt.`s instrument. It shouldn`t take away anything from the fact that he is one of the most respected budgetary economists of Pakistan.

Very well written article. I only wish that the Governments of Pakistan and United States will pay attention to it.