Turks what you see are issues with Pakistan as country and society

[Milspec]

Pakistan is a country with immense potential a 200 million-strong population one of the 6th largest in the world its blessed to have rich natural resources. the armed forces with its faults still keeps the nation from becoming a another Somalia and Afghanistan, Pakistanis are a lonely people and nation our neighbors despise us we been used as cannon fodder for geo political aims first by the Americans in the Cold War against the Soviets and Americans were always backstabbing China is our only really true ally in that sense anyways Pakistanis use to be enamoured with Gulf Arabs from the 1970s till like the late 2010s now that romance is floundered Turkey with its soft power and Erdogan being a "Islamic" populist has garnered the tired if not apolitical masses tired of their stagnation but without accepting the recipe for Turkish sucess was not Erdogan but Kemal Ataturk and Secularism. Secularism is a dirty word there .So as Turks what you see are the main issues facing Pakistan as a country and society

Pakistan's problem is no different than other developing nations in Asia/Latin America/Africa, it's Education. Just Education.
that's it.

 

[VCheng]

Pakistan's problem is no different than other developing nations in Asia/Latin America/Africa, it's Education. Just Education.
that's it.

Yes, but how many of the statements in the OP can be contested for accuracy?

And here I thought only Turks are allowed to answer the question posed in the title.

 

[Joe Shearer]

I think that the problem lies much deeper.

From the moment that Syed Ahmed Khan and, later, Khwaja Salimullah Nawab of Dhaka, coalesced large sections of the Muslim population around the Muslim League, instead of joining the very open organisation of the Indian National Congress (of which Jinnah had been a very prominent and very influential member until the arrival of Gandhi on the scene from South Africa, we had the makings of a problem. Very shortly after the founding of the Muslim League, the concept of a separate Muslim nation became one of the goals for the Muslim population of South Asia. Soon, Syed Ahmed Khan's writings and public utterances began to find their place in a political ideology that was taken up for polishing first by Chaudhuri Rahmat Ali, then by Allama Iqbal, and that became known as the Two Nation Theory.

We don't need to go into the painful history of the freedom struggle from 1939 to 1947. It is enough to say that it saw a gradual widening of the gulf between the Congress and the Muslim League. It became a fundamental platform of the Muslim League to assert that these two communities, Muslims and Hindus, could never live together.

Where is the point, the reader may ask; what has that got to do with Pakistan's present status and economic weakness?

Very simply, the concept of separation never had anything in it about parity. In other words, when Jinnah tenaciously and intelligently played the British against the Congress and the Congress against the British, and gained the promise to either work together or to work separately, he never planned to deliver a country that would fight against India. That was not what Pakistan was about. She was formed so that Muslims from all over South India, but most particularly from the Punjab, the Sindh, the North-West Frontier and Baluchistan, could live their lives following their religious practices and not being disturbed by any Islamophobia that might crop up in India in future.

This is not what happened.

From the outset, Pakistan has sought parity. That is a really difficult task, but she sought it. That is why these desperate efforts to maintain a huge army, and air force and navy. All in the teeth of the evidence that, except in 1971, India has never attacked Pakistan.

What has happened was inevitable. If it continues - but it cannot continue. Human flesh and blood may declaim hot rolling sentences filled with menace; on the ground, very little is going to happen.

@Yankeestani

Why did you look surprised? Was it something I said?

Please feel QUITE FREE to

1. Pillory me, and give no reasons for it;
2. Contradict me, and give reasons for it;
3. Question me, at whatever length you wish to.

 

[Nilgiri]

And here I thought only Turks are allowed to answer the question posed in the title.

That ship has sailed thanks to me lol. You're welcome.

 

[Joe Shearer]

That ship has sailed thanks to me lol. You're welcome.

OMIGOD, it's a surgical strike!

@Nilgiri, what are you up to?

 

[Aslan1071]

Selamun Hello.

 

[rainmaker]

The main issue with Pakistan is that Pakistanis don't know their own identity. Until that is solved, Pakistan is doomed to continuously suffer from instability and poverty. Pakistanis must choose a basis of nationhood, then create a modern Constitution, and only then will they be able to put their society together and try to advance.