Stark contrast - India's elections and Pakistan's struggles

What a stark contrast, isn't it?
Pakistan is fighting for its existence and meanwhile India - its sibling born the same time - is going for its 15th general elections. What a different path they have taken 60 years on!!!

There is a good discussion on the India and Pakistan situation by some leading thinkers in the US here.

Also, there is an interesting article called "Could Pakistan Dissolve?" in the Mother Jones website.

There are reports today that the Pakistan state is fighting the Taliban in the NWFP provinces and the MQM - the main party in Karachi - is doing the same in the port city of Karachi in the south.
So maybe Pakistan has woken up to the cancer eating it alive. I hope its not too little, too late.

The dream of Pakistan turns into a nightmare

Mr. Jinnah - the founder of the state of Pakistan - must be spinning fast in his grave given that the Pak government is handing over parts of his dream to the Taliban.
That dream of founding a nation solely based on religion is fast turning into a nightmare.

M.V.Kamath has written a good article on the beginning of the end of Pakistan here.
How can this be allowed? How long before this monster eats up the rest of the nation?
There is a saying which is apt here: "Give a camel an inch, it takes a ell" (meaning the entire space).

India has to be really worried on three accounts:-

1. Taliban / al Qaeda on its western borders, which is more a worry than the Pakistan army.
2. Refugees poring in from across the border, particularly Sindh. (Karachi has more than 15M people who hate the Punjabi domination and want to live in a more secular state).
3. Eventual implosion of the Pakistan state, with NWFP, Balochistan and maybe even Sindh seceding from the Punjabi Pakistan, like what happened with Bangladesh.