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REQUEST If you have political or influential connections please consider sending this article to them. I am open to different thoughts. This is just a mirror for people to see before getting into power; shortly after the election results.     Kindly do not download  this article and circulate it on other social media. It comes across as scurrilous writing which it is not. I would request you to forward the link.   The Contrast In 1971 India was a poor country with strong and modern Armed Forces. Pakistan’s peremptory airstrike was shot out of the air. In the next two weeks, we bisected the nation surgically, created Bangladesh and took 93000 POWs despite US 7 th Fleet threatening intervention.  In 2019, Pakistan masterminds a suicide bombing. We carry out a terrific surgical strike but are unable to shoot out the retaliatory air strike. Hey!! We are the trillion dollar fastest growing economy on earth. We want to be part of the High Table. USA was tacitly wit

Lt. Gen. PR Shankar(R) & Maj. CN Anand (R)   New Delhi   12 May 2019 website of original article  @ sniwire.com Most of us tend to believe that Pakistan will fail as a state due to its poor economy, terrorism or over-militarism. The talk in strategic chat rooms or cocktail circuits is all about that. Hold on. Look at the water availability graph of Pakistan above. In the 1990s, Pakistan became a water-stressed nation. Around 2005, it entered the water-scarcity zone. After 2025, it is going to dip below the absolute water scarcity line. When Pakistan goes beyond the absolute water scarcity zone, it will also have entered the perpetual failure zone. The situation is scary due to multiple factors. The economy is hemorrhaging and the nation needs an IMF bailout. Well known. The bailout has no water element in it. Not so well known. Pakistan’s military spending is rising continually. In 2018, it spent 4 per cent of its GDP on its bloated military. Every penny spent on arms is

May 10, 2019 ;  website of original article @ bharatshakti.in Print Email Editor’s Pick Pakistan seems to be riding a downward spiral. Or, perhaps it’s already in a state of free fall. However, even with Khan now firmly in saddle for a reasonable period of time, no policy decisions seem to have been taken to turnaround the economy. The story remains the same day-after-day: get other countries and international institutions to bail it out with loans that it can never repay. The author paints a broad canvas of the situation in Pakistan with bits and pieces covering a large enough mosaic to undertake some well-defined prognosis. ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. When did the last kingdom or people flourish in the Indus Valley after the Dravidian civilization? Reflect. The Indus Valley, historically war-torn, crisscrossed by turbulent hordes, tribes, kingdoms and empires, is cursed. Pakistan has inherited the ‘The Indus Curse’. It will remain our neighbour in its u