Pakistan is yet to recover from one of the worst political violence witnessed in the port town of Karachi. What started as an issue between President Pervez Musharraf and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, has now assumed gigantic proportions and polarized the country into two. The city of Karachi has come to a stop, and the whole country is suffering from social and political unrest, which may soon start to have economic repercussions as well.
Things don't look rosy with the other neighbors as well. On the eastern front, Bangladesh is the scene of intense political activity..well..without a government. The two leading parties, Bangladesh Nationalist party and the Awami League have been questioning the fairness of the upcoming elections and pointing irregularities in the voters list. The country is currently under a state of emergency and headed by a caretaker government.
Down south, Sri Lanka is battling renewed attacks by LTTE, including air raids on the capital city of Colombo. The landlocked Nepal seems to be doing better, months after King Gyanendra was stripped of all royal powers and the state was proclaimed secular by the 7-party government.
It is rather surprising that the Indian government hasn't involved itself much into issues across the border. A stable neighborhood augurs well for the social and economic development of the entire South Asian region, and it is high time the SAARC countries realize that.
Things don't look rosy with the other neighbors as well. On the eastern front, Bangladesh is the scene of intense political activity..well..without a government. The two leading parties, Bangladesh Nationalist party and the Awami League have been questioning the fairness of the upcoming elections and pointing irregularities in the voters list. The country is currently under a state of emergency and headed by a caretaker government.
Down south, Sri Lanka is battling renewed attacks by LTTE, including air raids on the capital city of Colombo. The landlocked Nepal seems to be doing better, months after King Gyanendra was stripped of all royal powers and the state was proclaimed secular by the 7-party government.
It is rather surprising that the Indian government hasn't involved itself much into issues across the border. A stable neighborhood augurs well for the social and economic development of the entire South Asian region, and it is high time the SAARC countries realize that.
2 comments:
Indian Govt has been mum in many issues. Your post made me ponder.
Our politicians are blessed with such a degree of cravenness that I sometimes wonder if India is really an independent country. They will beg grovel and sell their .
The problems that you mention in the neighbourhood are pretty serious because China has taken good advantage of them and there is nothing worth doing about it that our 'leadership' has the courage to do. Bloody commies. Apparently they still haven't condemned the Chinese aggression in 1961 and reports say current incursions are being hushed up because Karat, Yechury et al do not want it made known to us.
ON the other hand there is our ally, the bastion of democracy. The thought of the nuclear deal being finalised in the space of a year and a half makes me shiver. It took our 'ally' eight years to work out such a deal with Japan, we are not as close to our ally as Japan is. I wonder what is going to happen to our independence.
I would like to use some choice words, but you just can't insult our 'leaders' because no expletive is adequate.
If only cravenness were not such an integral part of the congress psyche, if only the BJP were moderate.
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