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This is a pigheaded article stemming from an inferiority complex that afflicts this author & Pakistan when India comes up. The author’s logic is in a funk. India couldn’t care less about Pakistan for so long as it stops sending trained murdering thugs across the border. Now, in response to some statements in the article...“PAKISTAN – A POET’S UTOPIA”? LOL, it’s more like hallucination, a Taliban’s utopia, for it did the deed of recognizing the Taliban. Among others, this strategic blunder is also the bane of its existence. Pakistan was a nightmare since its flawed conception, fusing the silly idea of religion & state, feeding its majority on anti-India rhetoric that has defined its collective consciousness. Throughout its tattered existence it has survived on crumbs from the US, who always kept it like a whore it is; poor & starving. On other statements - [A] “WHY DOES INDIA MAKE FOOLS...2 BOLLYWOOD MY ADVICE.”. This is an illogical point; so uneducated. Only the sophisticated realize that space programs are highly complex operations with high probability for failures. Get it? BTW some of the biggest lovers of Bollywood lie in Pak. Who would’ve thought this might happen, certainly not that poet! Re: space program, even US and Russia have had their failures but have great programs. Given India’s paucity of resources and horrible bureaucracy, it has done a nice job in space, even launching satellites for the US and Israel. This is what Pakistan and its poets should be dreaming of -science &tech for a prosperous future! [B] “THOUGH HE WAS ALWAYS VAGUE …. PLURALISTIC SOCIETY OF INDIA, WITH ITS..CULTURE”. Seems more like the random musings of the clueless, but then he was just a poet. It takes guts, vision, intelligence (not the Pakistani ISI), higher philosophy, knowledge, & other attributes to make a nation. As Kissinger said, India is one of the few democracies in the post-colonial world. India’s forefathers knew the opportunities & challenges. Pluralism is its strength and it has made India a strong democracy, despite its flaws. The corollary is also true; Pakistan’s diversity is its cancer & demise, NOT INDIA. Listen to Musharraf’s and Zardari’s comments which imply that India is not Pak’s main problem. Eat crow guys! Anti-India rhetoric is gleefully gulped like intoxicating brew in Pak thus producing delusions of grandeur conjured by poets, idiots and what not. [C.] - “THE ARMY’S … RUNNING OF A LUCRATIVE TRADE IN NUCLEAR SECRETS.” But of course, where else would you find bin Laden? The swine is never far from the sewer and its own kind; the Pak army. It is here you will find bin Laden, in Pak, close to the Pak army. The army needed the humiliation. It lost its underwear, got naked and raped! Act 2 might just follow with other Al Qaeda rats. More Operation Geronimos please.
[D] “THE REVERSAL IN THE FORTUNES ……A CULTURE THAT PAKISTANIS, VIA BOLLYWOOD, EXPERIENCE DAILY IN THEIR HOMES”. This is no reversal of fortunes, but in the collective will of India, whose people place an importance on education, science, IT, etc that make countries great. India is a coveted market for business powerhouses not to mention companies selling tech for nuclear power generation. Try that in Pak, Haha! Finally [E] – “THIS RAGE IS WHAT MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO REDUCE….SHOULD PROVOKE NO TRIUMPHALISM IN INDIA ….THERE IS ARID PAIN AND SADNESS.” -Grow up and get over it like how 1947 is fading in India’s rear view mirror, so are its wounds. Hurt festers in the minds and bodies of the weak, who have no pride and but lots of mediocrity. This statement is the author’s vain attempt at a face saving gesture. The humiliation, insult and pain are all too obvious. There’s absolutely no merit in this statement. India should celebrate as it wants; with triumph& pride. No apologies here. Pakistan would have been much better off under Indian leadership. And Taseer should stop writing such balderdash! He gets away by denigrating India/Indians because of superior Indian values of free press. Try this trick in inferior Pak, and he will have to bolt like a petrified hog trying to save its life. Author needs therapy and a new profession.