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| India-Pakistan |
| The next sixty years |
| 2007-08-19 |
| By Ahmad Faruqui As Pakistan completes its first sixty years, it is natural to ask whether the next sixty would look any different. Given the difficulties of even forecasting the future six months out, how can we define the nation’s long-term future? Paradoxically, it is often easier to talk about the long-term than about the near-term. When Winston Churchill quipped, “The future, though imminent, is obscure”, he was referring to the near term. Over the long haul, he knew the curtain had fallen on the British Raj. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #6 That's a very good question, Joe. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2007-08-19 22:06 |
| #5 C2CAM Pert/SCIENCE NEWS > INDONESIA, PERU, SOLOMONS QUAKES ARE SOLAR-CAUSED??? Sun abnormally emitting more Rays, Gravity. *RENSE > NASA's Sun-watching satellites detecting strange Solar XRay burps. Said same strange XRay burps = emissions possible time-jumps/skips - may prove useful in saving Earth from Solar/Radiation-induced Annihilation? come or after 2012??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-08-19 20:23 |
| #4 Joseph, YOUR MEDS! |
| Posted by: Clart Henbane8757 2007-08-19 19:17 |
| #3 December 8th; 2012 > a great global-felt quake, China versus USA geopolitics in the Pacific, large comet slamming into the earth knocking earth off its normal orbit; 2018, 2022, etal.; moon explosions 2030, ....................etc. *Radical Islamism gets a foothold on Guam + other PACOAS, eventually to challenge, by armed force iff need be, the authority of both local Catholicism-Christianity, Culture, as well as Public Governance. BETTER TO WARN/ADVISE MY PEOPLE + USA NOW BECUZ I MAY NOT BE AROUND, at least not as "Joseph Mendiola". SECULARISTS > "GOD/RELIGION IS FAKE" > ergo Mankind must prove he can control = stop the wraths of God/Apocalypse, etc. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-08-19 19:02 |
| #2 Territorial Disintegration: Inter-provincial rivalries and events across the borders cause the Frontier to merge with Afghanistan, Balochistan with Iran and interior Sindh with India. Karachi becomes as a city-state. Punjab is all that survives of Pakistan. To paraphrase Toynbee, the nation “dies from suicide, not murder.” The most likely option... |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-08-19 09:06 |
| #1 Ahh, jovial I AM. "Internally, several questions will need to be answered. Will Pakistan finally make a transition out of feudalism, something India did decades ago? Will literacy and primary enrolment rates rise to the levels seen today in the Asia-Pacific countries? Will rates of domestic savings and investment rise to the point that growth ceases to depend on foreign aid? Will the character of economic growth change sufficiently to make a dent in the poverty rate? Or will growth be swallowed up by rising population, which, if current trends continue, will make it the fourth largest state in the world? Depending on how these issues are resolved, Pakistan will either become an economic powerhouse be sent to an economic purgatory." I would like to see everyone doing better - excellent debate questions. Wish I could get that here in the US rather than snowmen and white/black and covetous crap. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-08-19 03:11 |